There has been discussion regarding various web site addresses (URL) and when they were registered. How does this impact the USKBTC?
The registration of URLs using another organization’s trade name, while not illegal, is generally not considered ethical or appropriate. Generally individuals do this for one of two reasonseither to “sell” the name to the organization or to “block” the organization from having an easily recognizable web addresses. When the USKBTC started the process to register our URL we were surprised to discover that www.uskbtc.org was registered to John Van den Bergh on January 6, 2002. When the Foundation learned we might use Foundation rather than Charitable Funds John Van den Bergh immediately registered www.uskbtcf.org and www.uskbtcfoundation.org in an apparent effort to block web access in an easily recognized way. The Foundation has since offered several URL’s, including www.uskbtc.org to the USKBTC.
