On Jan 8, 8:21*am, "John Mazor" wrote:
You're dangerously close to encroaching on established names. *The Aero Club of America
was the predecessor of the National Aeronautics Association. *More importantly, the Aero
Club of Washington atwww.aeroclub.orgstill is an ongoing operation. *Did you consult a

If "Aero Club" isn't a common generic term, I don't know what is. The
thread starter's site is an (online) Aero Club and it has just as much
right to the domain name aeroclub.net as anybody else doing something
similar, in fact more so than those brick and mortar establishments
you presented as ".net" is ".network", for *international* network
organisations - which apparently is exactly what this new site is
planned to be.

If anything it's your examples which have silly choices for domain
names, as they are country specific entities and should by rights be
using an appropriate domain under thier ccTLD.

Besides, poster #1 is in Italy by his email address, he an quite
cheerfully throw any possble C&D from your examples in the bin, US
legal jurisdiction doesn't extend to Italy.

If aeroclub.org had wanted aeroclub.net as well then they should have
registered it, I'm sure they could have found the $10 somewhere.