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Queen Loses Out In newzealand.com Dispute

Posted by timothy on from the seems-ok-to-me dept.

pidge-nz writes "Hmmmm. Does a country own the rights to its name? Looks like the WIPO thinks not. Here's the New Zealand Herald short article on the decision. My Personal opinion is that they all are a bunch of plonkers - all three partcipants. NZ Govt for not bothering to register the name earlier, Virtual Countries for not bothering to ask to use/"license" the name, and the WIPO for setting a stupid precedent."

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  1. Plonkers by MacAndrew · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    My Personal opinion is that they all are a bunch of plonkers

    plonk

    (Possibly influenced by British slang
    "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving
    stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie
    makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this
    term originated in the Usenet newsgroup
    news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and
    mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.

    Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with
    Little Or No Knowledge".

    (2002-01-18)

    Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe

  2. re: plonker by grolschie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Timothy is a plonker.