cybersquatting

Post by **glossy** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:28 pm

i've just become a victim: http://pockyboard.com/

i miss my renewal date by 3 days, and some cunt pulls the rug out from under me. thankfully i still have the site and the database (and i've backed both up in the last hours of the DNS propogation just to be sure), but this shit is fucking stupid. The silver lining is that I finally have the opportunity to overhaul the site without worrying about people missing features or something -- I can start from a clean slate and still retain my old users.

Christ though, how fucking stupid... I can't even get the domain back because 'pockyboard' isn't a registered trademark. fuck.

Post by **phoq** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:09 pm

Let that be a lesson :icon6:

Post by **7zark7** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:19 pm

hunt him down, and kill him.

Post by **bitWISE** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:08 pm

I thought they gave you a month before it was open to the market?

I remember back before I got perfunction.com I wanted polyvalent.com but someone was squating it and wanted $25,000 for it.

Post by **inolen** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:29 pm

inolen.com got squatted. They wanted 5k for it. I replied to that e-mail saying fuck that, all I got is $5. They settled for $25 :icon14:

Post by **bitWISE** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:01 pm

inolen wrote:inolen.com got squatted. They wanted 5k for it. I replied to that e-mail saying fuck that, all I got is $5. They settled for $25 :icon14:

:lol:

Post by **simple** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:34 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't registered they're company name. Why not go out and registered a few key frazes, and then demand they take down their website because it interfere with your copy rights and bissness licenses.

so crazzy

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:53 pm

inolen wrote:inolen.com got squatted. They wanted 5k for it. I replied to that e-mail saying fuck that, all I got is $5. They settled for $25 :icon14:

amazing

Post by **eepberries** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:28 pm

inolen wrote:inolen.com got squatted. They wanted 5k for it. I replied to that e-mail saying fuck that, all I got is $5. They settled for $25 :icon14:

Hahaha. Inolen is serious business

Post by **dnoyc** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:50 am

Post by **rep** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:11 am

??? Did your arms shrink ???

Post by **blakjack** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:30 am

pocky

speaking of squatting, i want a domain name but it is taken by one of those 'sorry we've taken this domain to hold for one of our clients' bs... :icon33: maybe i should try inolens trick.

Post by **Dave** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:32 am

tbh, pockyboard is a dumb name... i have no idea what it even is

Post by **simple** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:03 am

ah, have you ever tried to buy a domain, only to have the company raise the price?

Post by **Dave** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:48 am

My domain costs more every year because the Euro keeps going up

Post by **inolen** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:11 am

rep wrote:

??? Did your arms shrink ???

What a beautiful young businessman.

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:16 am

What a fag with what looks like a clear packet of coke in his poch'et.

BTW owned: http://www.quake2evolved.com lolz

Post by **inolen** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:19 am

o'dium wrote:What a fag with what looks like a clear packet of coke in his poch'et.

BTW owned: http://www.quake2evolved.com lolz

Berserk appears to be a rather knowledgeable programmer.

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:21 am

inolen wrote:
o'dium wrote:What a fag with what looks like a clear packet of coke in his poch'et.

BTW owned: http://www.quake2evolved.com lolz
Berserk appears to be a rather knowledgeable programmer.

Aye, he added stuff in such a short time a few months back I couldn't believe it. In the space of less than a week, he managed to get PPL up and fully working plus Doom 3's shader system, plus many more advanced shader variables... The guys crazy, a machine.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:31 am

isnt there the 30 day holding period?

and what does that picture have to do with anything?

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:59 am

i guess that its hosted on a website?

Post by **glossy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:57 am

Dave wrote:tbh, pockyboard is a dumb name... i have no idea what it even is

pocky is a snack in japan, a thin breadstick thing, dipped in chocolate. Me and the guy I developed the site with called it "pockyBoard" during production, because we couldn't think of a name in the meantime. It stuck, everyone thinks it's funny

Post by **glossy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:07 am

MKJ wrote:isnt there the 30 day holding period?

nope? It expired a few weeks after pockyboard's first birthday, and the domain was set up a few weeks after pockyboard went live (originally it was on a subdomain, until i busted open my quite low bandwith limit, so i moved it to it's own setup, where the rest of my sites also now reside)