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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Thursday, March 17, 2005 American Express goes nuts over Mexican domain name Boing Boing reader Felix Eduardo Guerrero received a nastygram from American Express about the perceived similarity between their name (AMEX) and a domain name he registered (www.macadamiamex.com, a website about Macadamia nut farming in Mexico). Felix says that's unfair because, "MEX is a very popular suffix and prefix for Mexican websites." Link to post with copy of communication from AmEx. posted by Xeni Jardin at 12:42:28 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email:

Thursday, March 17, 2005