Welcome to Georgia Clements who has joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** This is a statement by GENUKI : - --------------------------- GENUKI has provided an information service for U.K. and Ireland genealogy on Internet free of charge for five years. It now has over 20,000 pages of information. Much of the web space is provided free on condition that GENUKI is not a commercial service. The home page is at www.genuki.org.uk. In April Les Strong from the Penrith area registered domain names www.genuki.co.uk and www.genuki.com. He also registered limited companies Genuki.com Ltd and Genuki Ltd, and started a commercial web site seeking paid advertising. These websites and companies were completely separate from GENUKI. Naturally GENUKI organisers and maintainers are furious that Les Strong started a commercial service using the name GENUKI. The organisers of GENUKI took formal domain name conflict resolution action. This led to a negotiated settlement. As a result the domains genuki.co.uk and genuki.com will be transferred to GENUKI - this should take effect on November 1st. But it cost money - which otherwise would have gone to providing more free information on Internet. Statement for GENUKI from David Hawgood, e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook [email protected] List owner and Co-host with Barbara < [email protected] > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.