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dnel
on Oct 8, 2024
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The million-dollar mystery of milk.com
since they can't have their brand's ampersand in a domain it seems better than the alternative: bandq, which isn't correct either.
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Famously, B&Q’s original name was “Block and Quayle” after the surnames of the founders - but they switched to B&Q because everyone in the trade were abbreviating it that way.
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interestingly bq.co.uk redirects to diy.com though that doesn't mean they own it
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