ViaAlpina lader til at være et eftertragtet domænenavn, ikke bare her i Europa, hvor vi jo har den lange bjerg-vandresti med samme navn, men det overraskede mig nu alligevel da jeg for nogle uger siden modtog en email fra en Mike Zhang, som skulle være Service Manager ved china-registry.net i Kina, som tilsyneladende er det kinesiske svar på dk-hostmaster.
"From: Mike Zhang
Subject: "viaalpina"
Dear CEO, (It's very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Hui hua Ltd on April 26, 2021. They want to register "viaalpina" as their Internet Keyword and "viaalpina.cn", "viaalpina.com.cn", "viaalpina.net.cn", "viaalpina.org.cn" domain names, they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find "viaalpina" conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards
Mike Zhang | Service Manager
China Domain Registry (Head Office)
No. 300, Xuanhua Road, Changning District, Shanghai 200050, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823
Web: www(dot)china-registry(dot)net"

Den mail fik mig til at undre mig noget, men den lod ikke til at være spam, phishing eller noget i den retning men blot en almindelig forretningsforespørgsel. Og da jeg jo kendte mere til ViaAlpinas aktiviteter i Europa kunne jeg måske gøre mine alpine navnepartnere en tjeneste ved at fortælle disse kinesiske forretningsfolk hvad ViaAlpina står for i Europa. "Dear Mike
As CEO of viaalpina.dk I can inform you that I have no problems with your use of viaalpina in conjunction with Chinese websites. But I feel that I should inform you that viaalpina is the name of a long hiking route through the Alps, so I can assume that your wish will affect the European countries which this hiking route is passing through, countries like France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. This hiking route was initiated in the start of this century, and therefore after I established the viaalpina.dk website!
With regards
Jan Elleby
CEO viaalpina.dk"

Men måske der alligevel var lidt lusk i affæren, for kort efter fik jeg min egen mail i hovedet igen med besked om at den kinesiske mailadresse info@china-registry.net ikke eksisterede!