An inventive way to get cybersquatter off your domain.

August 1, 2001 3:54 PM

An inventive way to get cybersquatter off your domain. [page 3 & 4] Anyone have any great domain theft/squatting stories? My office just won a domain battle, and was served papers for another soon after. Life Goes on...[also tidbits on the motivations of congress in passing domain-use laws.]
posted by th3ph17 (7 comments total)

porn site operator has your name? Easy. Call His Wife.
posted by th3ph17 at 3:57 PM on August 1, 2001

I must be dense, and this is just a teensy bit off topic, but how does Hellen Wells Agency become "HLA"? This is going to bug me all night.
posted by idiolect at 4:28 PM on August 1, 2001

At this moment all six of helenwells.* and helenwellsagency.* are registered to them.

Can't find where the article writer got "HLA" from, though. They don't seem to use it. Bad OCR?
posted by dhartung at 4:47 PM on August 1, 2001

Not that they are sqwatters, but for the longest time this hard ware store in either Beirut, Lebanon or somewhere in Palestine had registered the domain name tamim.com. They never built anything with that domain. Now it is owned by some other schmuck. :-(
posted by tamim at 7:47 PM on August 1, 2001

heh.

no problems here.

but then i again, i am a crafty and imaginative fellow.
posted by jcterminal at 11:56 PM on August 1, 2001

I think I've got it...
Helen Wells Agency = HLA
as
Chicago O'Hare International = ORD
as
Orlando International = MCO
posted by Tubes at 9:21 AM on August 2, 2001