There's a great little Easter Egg if you view source:<p>> <!-- Okay, if you really want to see a photo of my cat and have resorted to looking at the source HTML, here is a photo: <a href="https://gail.com/boxcat.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://gail.com/boxcat.jpg</a> -->
I love the domain squatting complaint--<p>> vii) it is unlikely that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant’s trademark considering the fame and tradition of the trademark GAIL;<p>Can the respondent really be so ignorant of overseas manufacturers of extruded architectural ceramics, which were available in the respondent's home country as recently as 1990?
Our company is the owner of kamer.nl (kamer=room/chamber) and our government in the Netherlands has a first and second chamber (eerstekamer and tweedekamer) as a parallel to Congress/House of Commons.<p>We're getting a lot of emails (due to a catch-all) because politicians type foo@tweede.kamer.nl, foo@eerste.kamer.nl or just plain foo@kamer.nl instead the correct foo@tweedekamer.nl or foo@eerstekamer.nl.<p>It does sometimes contain some privacy-sensitive information and we always reply and point them to the mistake. We do this because hopefully they learn (most do...) and they can get the information to the right person.
As the owner of a domain that matches with an ISP in Washington state (except for a missing "M" in mine), I feel Gail's pain.<p>I send back a canned response to most people once, then blacklist/drop the incoming address.<p>The worst I had was when someone decided that I was the one doing the wrong thing and demanded that I forward the email to the correct person. I engaged them back and forth for a bit, then eventually found the contact details of the company, forwarding the email chain to them and pointing out their customer service person's stupidity.<p>I got a nice reply from the CEO thanking me and an apology email from the CS person.
<p><pre><code> There are only two valid e-mail addresses on the gail.com domain, so it is extremely likely that your photos were rejected by my e-mail provider and tossed into the bit bucket.
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Good to know their rejected emails are instantly uploaded to a hosted git server ;)<p>I've actually never heard bit bucket used like this before. Is that the origin of the name for bitbucket.com?
Good that they still have it. In France, a seamstress named Milka infamously lost her shop's milka.fr domain to a food giant owning the brand.<p><a href="https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_contre_Kraft_Foods" rel="nofollow">https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_contre_Kraft_Foods</a>
> Another interesting gail.com factoid: my amazing e-mail provider, ProtonMail, rejects about 1.2 million mis-addressed e-mails per week to the gail.com domain.<p>Would be interesting to set up mail servers on "mistyped" domain names. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get sensitive information that would be useful for spear phishing.
> Q: Interested in selling gail.com?
> A: Sorry, no.<p>I wonder if that answer would stand if Google offered her $3M USD so they could recover some of their lost traffic.
less than a month ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957877" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957877</a>
I didn't think typosquatting actually worked. I wonder if there's a general way to figure out the most common misspellings of a given domain name...
Reading the legal arguments of the Gail ceramic company makes me never want to do business with that horrible company.<p>>> "Respondent’s domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. The domain name <gail.com> is nearly identical to the trademarks owned by the Complainant and was registered to prevent the Complainant from reflecting the trademark GAIL in a corresponding domain name. Furthermore, because the Respondent registered the domain name exactly when the Complainant increased its sales of GAIL products to the United States, this should be identified as an abusive practice"<p>Ugh. Seriously? Who pays a lawyer to write horrible stuff like this. It is so pathetic and there was no evidence any of it is true. At least the respondent won the case.
Better answer for the question "I tried to send some photos to my girlfriend and typed gail.com instead of gmail.com in the address field. The photos were of a very personal nature. Can you please delete them?" would be: "Don't worry! Your photos of a very personal nature are safely stored at NSA and will be scanned for all possible (ab)uses, many times, even in the future. In case of artificial intelligence false positives, they will also be manually scanned and reviewed - many times, even in the future. So please send the removal request to the NSA."
ahh typo-squatting... it creates so many interesting stories.. I have a few products related to domain names [1][2] and in the past I knew some users who owned "none.com.au" (which is a typo for nine.com.au - one of Australia's TV channels) and "gail.com.au" (similar to gail, but with .com.au) - which all attracted pretty decent traffic without any effort. They had some pages with Google AdSense going.<p>I also knew this user, who had the same domain name as one of the more popular YouTube video downloading tool, but with ".net". He put up an adsense that attracted 8k clicks per day.<p>Internet is filled with these fascinating stories.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.newsy.co" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsy.co</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.domainy.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.domainy.io</a>