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Post number 9426

th3ph17 — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:54:15 -0800

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.]

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:57:17 -0800

porn site operator has your name? Easy. Call His Wife.

By: idiolect

idiolect — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:28:18 -0800

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.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:47:15 -0800

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?

By: tamim

tamim — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:47:17 -0800

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. :-(

By: mutagen

mutagen — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:39:26 -0800

Had some wise guy that wanted a domain that I had registered for a friend (and still had my contact info on it). Since my contact info wasn't too forthcoming, relatives of mine were getting calls from him trying to track me down. Then the guy started claiming he had a trademark and sent a half completed trademark application as 'proof'.

Our lawyer started the paperwork battle with his supposed lawyer and we never heard from him again. We've since reorganized a bit and the domain sits registered and unused becuase the person with grand ideas hasn't followed through with any of them.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 23:56:24 -0800

heh. no problems here. but then i again, i am a crafty and imaginative fellow.

By: Tubes

Tubes — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:21:16 -0800

I think I've got it... Helen Wells Agency = HLA as Chicago O'Hare International = ORD as Orlando International = MCO