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This is a descriptive a article about one man and his dual monitor odyssey. After reading the snippet I had to read the article....

Sal has done this before on 9/29/04. Heck, he got a mention for it with regards to slashdotting in this Wired article. This article was submitted by SpaceCanary but with the salcan@gmail.com email address. This /. article is also worded oddly, as if he was just some random surfer who stumbled upon the article:

I recently read this open letter to Windows and I think it's pretty funny. The guy writes a letter...

A search through Slashdot revealed only these two articles containing xyzcomputing but I have no doubt he'll strike again. I wonder if this is an example of slashvertising.

I call shenanigans!

According to the article
"Richard Cunningham" more than likely isn't his real name; he won't say one way or another. But that's the name that appears on the WHOIS record for Spamsoft.biz, a domain he owns.

Here is the WHOIS record
Email: ProMan@animail.net
Web: www.spamsoft.biz

Quickly! Slashdot his website! Send all your viagra, big tit/dick and Nigerian money to his email account!

googleporn.com

the whois record for whitehouse.org says that it was registered by "Satire On-Line"
just to help put that page in perspective.

Do I think Sigmund has a real interest in my former domain name? Only as a speculator. What else can "Buy domains inexpensively! Resell them at competitive prices!" mean?

So what can I do about it? Sigmund is a lawyer with $250,000 worth of infrastructure behind him. I've seen WIPO cases with more going for them lose. The year I spent building that site and name are now effectively Sigmund's and there's nothing I can do about it because I don't have the time, resources or knowledge.

Problems like that need to be solved. Small businesses are going to be driven from the web by practices like that. If they go, so goes the web itself because people are not going to trust a non free media. It's simple banditry and no one does business in a lawless place.

Oh yeah thanks man for flying off the handle and publishing my personal details... I appreciate it greatly.

Yeah, that is lame, but because you registered the domain name, it is public information...

wayback has some listings for gmail.com, but it's been blocked with a Robots.txt. I wonder what the history of the gmail.com domain is and if someone made some cash selling it to google?

wayback has some listings for gmail.com, but it's been blocked with a Robots.txt. I wonder what the history of the gmail.com domain is and if someone made some cash selling it to google?

Ideaflood, Inc. has more than 30 patents and patent applications,
many of which were filed before the US Patent and Trademark Office
began publishing patent applications, and cover many widely used and
easily recognizable technologies that make the internet possible and
profitable. Much of Ideaflood's intellectual property is just as
central to core internet functions, but operate behind-the-scenes on
network servers and other back-end hardware and software.

Organization Name: IdeaFlood, Inc
Name: DOMAIN FOR SALE
[snip]
Record Created on........ 1999-11-05

Phooey.

A whois of kungfucinema.com shows it's registered to a person in Seattle Washington. I think that's how they can bully the guy. I'm sure if there was a HK based movie selling site, there wouldn't be much that Miramax could do, unless they also owned the HK rights to the movie as well.

This is a classic example where even when a big corp. is wrong, making them do the right thing would cost too much time and money with almost no return.

Everybody knows that WHOIS lists plenty of chicks.

...but not all have the qualities you probably are looking for.

Everybody knows that WHOIS lists plenty of chicks.

...but not all have the qualities you probably are looking for.

Everybody knows that WHOIS lists plenty of chicks.

... Available!

Dollars to doughnuts it isn't this time tomorrow. :)

(And no, I'm not gonna register it.)

owned by [whois.melbourneit.com], according to WhoIs.net

You are correct about Verisign as a registry. They use RRP for all registrar/registry communication, more efficient, less bloated than other EPP implementations (e.g. .biz, .info). PIR uses a totally new & different implementation of EPP, making all registrars who want to service .org domains patch or rewrite entire systems so it can fit this new implementation. .org has been nothing but pathetic since PIR took over.

Gotta love the current screwed up state of whois data for .org also: Whois output for slashdot.org

Actually,
Someone has purchased the domain. But, as it's a domain squatter in Belize, I'm sure google will do nothing, until a site shows up there.
Don't forget, lawyers cost money. Can't send the attack dogs out after everyone.

Then www.whois.net is your friend!

look through this. It's basically a list of domain names that contain the string 'drexel' Some are legit sites, others are what's being talked about above (like drexel-shaft.com/org/net, drexelsucks.com/net/org, etc).

Why don't you register censor-ware.org and start the project up again?

No, no, no. Fake addresses are the wrong answer. The correct solution is to look up the site's Admin Contact address from whois . Let the nosy bastards spam themselves. You can also use their own phone number and snail address if needed.

I'd say likely not as each page is not necessarily located on an entirely different server. How many registered domains might be a better indicator, and even still not all of those are necessarily on seperate machines.

Whois.Net claims "27,845,575 com/net/org domains registered". Now I'd say that some of those are duplicates (blah.net, blah.com, blah.org all reg'd to the same person and all resolving to the same thing, or something like that).
So maybe divide that number by 2.5 for a extremely rough figure. Certainly more that 10k - 30k, but still not quite 1.3 billion.

I've bought 50 domain names for clients before now when they KNOW they'll only use one of them for the project. The others just lapse after a couple of years. NSI have to hide the deletion date otherwise the domain hogs would run a little script to hammer WHOIS and buy anything that expires on the second it does so.

NSI are indeed very annoying and unhelpfull but the billing cycle argument holds true. I've paid bills on expired domains before they were deleted and brought them back from the dead.

If you like the idea of a dead domain then http://www.whois.net/ lets you search the database of expired domains in the manner you normally search active ones.

Not necessarily the deleted ones, but there's a searchable database of expired domains over at Whois.net.

LetterJ

One solution is to maintain 2 (or more) identities and just hope no one ever makes it from A to B, tricky though, I'd imagine that there are some people who know who I am just from my nick here, and info on various sites from way back when that could be used to trace me...

I'd agree in general though, maybe it is time for a new nick and a bit more care in maintaining it.

Even Really Stupid Ones(tm) like:

Where Do You Want To Go Today(tm), whois(tm), & It's The Software, Stupid(tm).

The List Goes On(tm).

See also Verio Trademarking 'Whois'? or google.

All Trademarks are the property of their respective owners(tm).

Thad

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRG!

Mesa HATING that joke!!!!!




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