Letters After Your Name?

Following on from yesterday's post, I received an email this morning from a Chartered Structural Engineer.

He asked, "What right do you have to use the name structuralengineer.net. I have letters after my name and feel that I am more entitled to use the name than somebody who is unqualified".

My answer to anyone asking if they can have my names is usually deafening silence. In this case I just couldn't resist this reply:

"I have letters after my name too. Yours is just one of many. I get them all the time".

For those who don't know, domain names are registered on a first-come, first served basis.

Nobody has an automatic right to a domain (unless it's a trademarked name of course), so Mr Structural Engineer, IStructE, go back to your drawing board.

You missed the boat.