# National misTrust Web site

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/22/national-mistrust-web-site/
- Published: 2004-01-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

While some charities have been on the receiving end of campaigning using similar
domain names, the nationalmistrust.org.uk site is not the negative site you might
assume.
Several charities have suffered domain name problems as individuals have
used similar sounding domain names to wage their campaigns against them. Coming 
across nationalmistrust.org.uk we assumed that this might be a similar site. In 
fact, it’s just plain silly.

The site has been set up by National Trust members, it seems, who delight in sharing
photographs of themselves at National Trust properties behaving “a downright inappropriate
manner”. We didn’t spot anything indecent – apart from one “moonie”, just vaguely
humorous pictures.

While the site might be regarded as affectionate towards the National Trust, its
use of a very similar typeface and logo to that of the National Trust is inadvisable.

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The existence of the site shouldn’t cause the National Trust any problems, but it
just goes to show that domain name issues are still a cause of concern for charities.

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