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Issue # 206 (10-12-2003)
Moving DayOn The Move...You move your domain sometimes out of necessity, sometimes for financial reasons, and for a host of other reasons. Regardless of what you've been told, or what you've experienced ... it doesn't have to be a nightmare. |
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This weeks's scumbag will focus not on a single individual, but upon an industry, if you can call it that. Have you had a domain stolen from you yet? Or had one registered the second that it's available before you could renew it? During Jim's illness, we here at JimWorld lost 4 or 5 great domains, as I was unable to re-register them for Jim, and he was physically unable to do it himself. Squatters jumped all over them, and now domains like the1000.com and gazetteworld.com that previously had been a big part of JimWorld, are now home to garbage collectors. While I can't fault them for being capitalists, it's still scummy, especially when they register the domain from underneath you, and then drop you an email asking for $1,000.00 to get it back.
On a similar note, by now, I'm sure you've heard about the sex.com lawsuit. In a nutshell, someone (not the owner of the domain) put in a transfer of ownership request to Network Solutions (now Verisign), with falsified information, and a falsified fax. Network Solutions did not follow their own verification procedures and essentially gave away one of the busiest domains on the Internet to a fraudster. Totally scummy. The story has many twists and turns, and only recently has some headway been made, with the 9th circuit court in CA ruling that Verisign is in fact liable and negligent. This is an interesting study in 2 scumbags ... the guy that completely ripped off the domain, and Network Solutions for allowing it to happen so easily. Domains on The Internet are our property. What happened to sex.com is akin to having your house stolen, and having the title company simply transfer your deed over to some homeless guy because he said he was you. The ramifications of the courts decision will have some pretty serious effects on The Internet asa a whole. Are domains really property? We're open to your thoughts not just on the sex.com case, but on squatting, and what does domain "ownership" really entitle you to? |
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