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cybersquatting

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:28 pm
by glossy
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.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:09 pm
by phoq
Let that be a lesson :icon6:

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:19 pm
by 7zark7
hunt him down, and kill him.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:08 pm
by bitWISE
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.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:29 pm
by inolen
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:

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:01 pm
by bitWISE
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:

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:34 pm
by simple
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

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:53 pm
by Don Carlos
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 :D

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:28 pm
by eepberries
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

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:50 am
by dnoyc
ROFL

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:11 am
by rep
Image

??? Did your arms shrink ???

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:30 am
by blakjack
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.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:32 am
by Dave
tbh, pockyboard is a dumb name... i have no idea what it even is

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:03 am
by simple
ah, have you ever tried to buy a domain, only to have the company raise the price?

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:48 am
by Dave
My domain costs more every year because the Euro keeps going up

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:11 am
by inolen
rep wrote:Image

??? Did your arms shrink ???
What a beautiful young businessman.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:16 am
by o'dium
What a fag with what looks like a clear packet of coke in his poch'et.

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

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:19 am
by inolen
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.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:21 am
by o'dium
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.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:31 am
by MKJ
isnt there the 30 day holding period?

and what does that picture have to do with anything?

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:59 am
by Chupacabra
i guess that its hosted on a website? :shrug:

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:57 am
by glossy
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 :)

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:07 am
by glossy
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)