We cannot really stop anyone from becoming a LIR... -- RIPE

You're right Wilfried. One company is called "Services", the other
"Online". Both registries are not in the same country but are in the
UK. We also used very different registry-IDs as well.

Cheers,

Eamonn McGuinness
RIPE NCC Hostmaster

In message <009E9E24.F070C3F6.18 at cc.univie.ac.at>you write:
>>Certainly the only place I ever see an LIR name used is in the 'X-NCC-RegID'
>>header, which I'm sure isn't seen by customers.  How are similar LIR names
>>going to confuse the general public when they never see them?
>
>  ...and even there, the individual tags are qualified by the ISO3166
>  country codes. I'd be *really* surprised if the NCC would have allocated
>  the same name twice for the *same* country?!
>  
>  -WW
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