Whoah. I accidentally typed our favorite blog's URL minus a period, and stumbled upon this educational reference site. Those devious hippies have gone too far....
posted by adamms222
on Mar 8, 2004 -
23 comments
The Anti-Squatter... A web-based sidebar to the recent passing of WKRP Manager and Maytag Repairman
Gordon Jump: the 'dot-com' address with his name (as well as those for living and dead celebrities including
Jack Palance,
Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan and
Flip Wilson) are owned by Richard Shumaker of "Wilmerding World Wide", who, on each homepage, editorializes against "Celebrity Name Cybersquatting", declares he has "captured" the names for "safekeeping", and promises
"At no charge, I will be more than honored to transfer domain name ownership." [more inside]
posted by wendell
on Sep 26, 2003 -
12 comments
kids.us ready to go. Hidden amongst the seemingly endless barrage of SOBig virii this morning was an interesting email from that
ResourceShelf Guy on the new
kids Domain.
Being billed as
"an Internet domain that parents and children can trust for educational and appropriate online fun" kids.us Launches On September 4, 2003. You can read the
Overview of kids.us Policies and Procedures, or
Register A Name (starting next week).
Interestingly they
Say a company called
cyveillance will be "monitoring and reviewing" content for the domains.
The domain names will
Look a little funny, but maybe
Someone should snag www.metafilter.kids.us, you know, for the kids. They don't seem cheap, as
"Registrants will be charged a combined registration fee and a non-refundable application fee for five-year registration.
posted by Blake
on Aug 28, 2003 -
13 comments
domain highjacking this also recently happened to our friends at k10k.com along with numerous other legitimate domains in the recent past... an outrage. the blood trail does not lead very far:
heres what stinks my friends....
go to: www.k10k.com .... then click on merchant accounts... and take a look at who the number 2 listing is.... oh, i bet verisign comes up a few other places as well .... thoughts? - i suggest a boycott of netsol and versign until appropriate action is taken or at least their support for this organization ceases.
posted by specialk420
on Mar 22, 2002 -
59 comments
Ben Brown once had this thing called Teeth Magazine. I don't know how long it lasted. But visiting ye olde Glassdog, I saw a random adzert for it. Intrigued, I clicked on it. And
it's a bit different now. Anyone else have funny lapsed-domain stories?
posted by solistrato
on Aug 21, 2001 -
16 comments
Madonna finally wins madonna.com Under what grounds warrent her rights to that domain name? At the bottom it notes singer Sting was denied his attempt at aquiring sting.com, which is merely owned by some online gamer called
=Sting=.
posted by grank
on Oct 16, 2000 -
14 comments
