Why was the Highcross Quarter first named Highcross Quarter
With the opening of the shops and stores in Leicester's Highcross in the new Highcross quarter many would not argue against the idea that the gravitational centre of the city has moved westwards away from the hustles and bustles of the clock tower and Gallowtree Gate.
Many will now see the hub of the town as the High Street or perhaps even St Peters Square itself within the Highcross quarter.
The commercial epicenter sits well in this area as it is no stranger to its paths, pavements and roads of Highcross Street and High Street.
150 Years ago this very area was the hub of leicester and had been so for centuries. The mighty Daniel Lambert sat as Governer of the city Gaol once located on Highcross Steet in the 18th Century. Part of the wall of that Gaol still remains to be seen there even down to this day. So this area really was the central focal point of the city.
The Highcross monument had been located there as it was the place most likely to be seen by the myriad of passers by that used to throng the unpaved walkways of those days.
The area accommodated the High Cross monument certainly for the 16th or 17th centuries but perhaps even earlier in some form or another... perhaps even from about the 12th century. (Article in Progress...)
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So went the quote of a certain elderly Leicestershire pensioner. Within hours of her penning those now famous words, the worlds media from New Zealand and Canada to Ireland and Turkey were running the story of what was to become the highest profile domain name dispute case of all time.
This website is about that "naming controversy" and domain name dispute involving the Highcross Leicester along with its impacts and implications including as many believe on the renaming of the £350 Million Highcross Quarter to Highcross Leicester.
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Old School...
As part of the development an old school dating back some 500 yrs or so was repaired and brought back to its former glory or as close to it as possible.
Now used as a marketing suite with possible use as a restaurant on the cards.
For many years this had been used as a car hire plot that saw the building more or less run down and neglected.
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Worldwide Press Coverage...
Reuters and the Press Association picked the story up on the 19th July 2007.
Webwordwizards had worked with our clients to produce a press release which was set up on the high cross quarter websites.
Even as late as Dec 2007 the ladies of the wiccan group and the dispute was still in the news. Morrigan Wisecraft was somewhat flattered and taken aback when we told her that her group was sharing the same headline as the Northern Rock collapse in the Leicester Mercury.
Image: Copyright Northcliffe Newspapers (Leicester Mercury)
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Do you have information for this website?
We recognise that although we played a part centre stage in the domain name battle and renaming controversy surrounding the Highcross Leicester, that their exists information and facts pertaining to this whole matter of which we are not aware.
We get information on a daily basis that we can present on this website from well wishers who often wish to remain anonymous.
If you would like to contact us and provide such information that we might consider for this website either about the Highcross Leicester, the name dispute and name change or intellectual property disputes in general please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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The impact this name dispute had on people.
This dispute involving the Highcross Leicester, its developers, the ladies of the wiccan group and Webwordwizards the IT Consultants and Website designers for the High Cross Quarter website for the wiccan group spanned some 12 months from start to finish from September 2006 through to October 2007. Read more...
The lessons for other small groups.
Other small groups can benefit from the lessons learned by the ladies of the wiccan group who stood to have their domain name seized in this way.
Our advice as the consultants and web designers upon whose shoulders it fell to defend this case is:
1) Always keep any emails or hard copy records surrounding the discussions you have with fellow group members as well as your internet consultants.
2) Although this is no guarantee that you wont have issues at a later date you should acquire your domain names at the earliest opportunity.
3) A good internet consultant will always know to advise you to acquire all the top level domains pertaining to your web project. This principally means the .com but also the .info, .org and .net. The lower level but useful country domain the .co.uk should also not be forgotten.
A common error by inexperienced consultants is to forget to advise you to consider also the hyphenated domain like this one for this site or for example gum-tree.com. So don't forget to acquire the hyphenated versions of your name if your name uses multiple words.
4) Portable information access is future so ALWAYS ALWAYS get the .mobi domain and if you can not then choose another name. It is that important.
5) Don't be intimidated by Corporate Goliaths if they come after you for your domain names. As in our case they may offer ridiculous sums many thousands of times over the actual cost of the names but if you don't want to sell then don't!
Get advice from a good IT Consultant and stand your ground.
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