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Domain Names to Suck More
A submitter writes: "MSNBC is running this article about a free speech lawyer who will be doling out sites with the word 'suck' in it for free. He and others are afraid that too many of these gripe sites have been taken away from their owners and given to the target companies and is willing to fight in court for these people." We posted about the VivendiUniversalSucks decision earlier.
I suggest we set up a website to promote a lawsuit where the guidelines are more ambiguous. I recommend registering "www.hoovervacuumcleanersDONTsuck.com"
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
That's all well and good for free speech, but these stories always make me wish I had a piece of the Domain Name sales pie. The # of people that actually visit these X-sucks.com sites is slim to nil. Feel free to spend the money, I guess.
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The summary should specify that the domains are "company.comsucks.net", not "companysucks.com" as the summary implies.
*Life is too serious to be taken too seriously.*
I think we just need to formalize it, there is a definate need for the TLD ".sucks"
I think it only fair that the existence of this site is disclosed while discussing this story.
The sucks.com owner could lease out second level domains under his domain and make a tidy little chunk of change for himself. This would, at the very least, make it much more difficult to have domain names siezed and transferred to them, since they'd have to take the trademark dispute to court rather than some completely unaccountable international IP committee.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Why complain about having a *sucs.com site named after you. Use it as a tool to fix your problems? Or just be flattered that someone took the time to develop a website dedicated to telling the world how much your company sucks. Isn't the irony there pretty thick already?
~.Evanrude
Before I paid to set up RiverMillSucks.com
*sigh*
ya gotta love a bunch of college kids bitching about their landlord. That's really the essence of life.
Or mine, anyway...
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
VivendiUniversalReallyReallyReallySucks.com
or
VivendiUniversalSucksButt.com
or, to show you're not looking for money...
seineeWerAsreenignElasrevinUidneviV.org
(pardon the silliness. this post composed umop apisdn)
Every once in a while I like to masturbate a new word into my vocabulary, even if I don't know what it means.
We need a .sucks top-level domain. To save time the
registrar could send the owner the date of his/her trademark infringement suit as soon as the first payment was made!
> Why can't people that lost their domain
> names just fight their own battles?
Ok, let me get this straight. Because I can't
afford to match legal dollars with GM, it means
that I don't have the right to free speach?
I'm sure the lawyer here is trying to make
a name in this arena, but I have no problem
with that - it's a win-win sitution. The people
who have lost their right to protest with
domains now can do so with sub-domains.
http://slashdot.orgsuck.com
That's a mouthful!
~ now you know
http://freespeechcenter.org/portfolio/com.html
It is a _third level domain_ that you get.
They've registered almost all common non-national [TLD]sucks.[TLD] second level domain names, and therefore can hand out third level ones of whatever variety you want.
So you could create names like MSN.NETsucks.info if you like. (case of course being irrelevant).
Hope that's clear now.
THL.
Keeping
I tried to do the something similiar last year. I set up a subdomain redirection site so you could assign microsoft.usuck.com to wherever you wanted, etc. (Actually, that site pointed HERE - and I didn't do it). I had over 70,000 domains being redirected.
After the spam community started using my domain service for their own good, Verio threatened to pull the plug, so I stopped that service. What a pity.
It was so fun, though. Getting emails from parents saying their kids were going to drop out of school because people had set up redirections from (example) johnsmith.usuck.com that ended up redirecting to gay porn sites.
This is sort of a good thing in that you can (at least in the future) get your VivendiUniversal.comsucks.com address for free (?) but it doesn't address the underlying issue that these "suck" domains shouldn't have been taken away in the first place. So kudos Ed Harvilla for the idea but it's a workaround for the problem not a solution to it.
Personally if I were to create a parody site in the future I'm going to learn from Jay Sallen's mistake and NOT create a sucks domain. Think: VivendiUniversalBlowsGoats.com how's the WIPO going to award that to them? Actually, perhaps I shouldn't have asked that question...
He who defends everything, defends nothing. -- Fredrick The Great
Or even PrimusSucks.com :)
- Dan I.
If you don't like the DMCA and want to make a 'suck' site from it, you should go grab:
DMCARules.com
Then make it a suck site. That way, instead of just making a suck site that hardly anyone will go to, you make a site where the trolls are your friends!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
> Why can't people that lost their domain names just fight their own battles?
.. I think the idea is, there is a reason they lost in the first place, and that would be lack of support, lack of ammunition, lack of fighting supplies ($$s and lawyers in today-speak.) Companies have been notorious for threatening legal action against small domain owners who have no choice but to fold, given the enormous financial risk that legal defence imposes.
.. why can't they just build some shit and make money for food?" You know, sometimes you're so focused on the next meal (or not losing your life's savings in the case of the domainname holders) that you couldn't concentrate on the bigger plan (being the champion, the hero, the company killer with respect to the domain holders) even if you wanted to.
Like, why can't people who got beat up just beat the other guy up? Duh
You remind me of those rabid free-market capitalists who keep asking, "So those people in countries with no money and food
"Old man yells at systemd"
"Really you think the KKK shou have the right to assemble?" Actually yes I do, for otherwise, a lot of people would have died in vain protecting this right they so often abuse. For the record, I ABHOR everything the KK stands for. I personally would be glad if they never existed. But, just because I disagree with their views, doesn't mean they don't have the right to do what they wish. (within the laws of course)
Sent from your iPad.
I don't know if you're a troll, trying to be funny or actually serious with this post but regardless of which I'm using it to respond with my own bit of my own constitutional rights. And I do not mean free speech.
First I'll let you know right off that in the spirit of America hating America is alright. Think about what this country would be like ( and many in this world are ) if you didn't have the right to express Anti-American ( politics, economy, foreign policy ) sentiment.
More importantly however is that I'm fully capable of being an American without being Christian. As I've so noticed especially with our God bless everything president we have right now what most people interpret Freedom of Religion to be freedom to choose your christian sect. Which admittadely is what our founding fathers meant when they wrote the constitution.
So if you actually were serious with your post and not a troll or just not funny, stick it in your ear.
I'm proud to be an American.
I'm proud to be atheist.
-TheRowk
You can change without improving, but you can't improve without changing. -Quote stolen from I don't remember who
freespechcentersucks.org?
:)
Petru
These domain names are fun, but nothing beats and original like WebPagesThatSuck.com ...
.... nothing says suck like grabbing your nemises domain name before they did original owner of PETA.Com ... here are some examples via WPTS : Domain Names
or a better yet
healyourchurchwebsite.com - WWJB?
So? My father was a Marine guard at the American embasy in Moscow during late 60's; back when it was a big fucking deal (i.e. Cuban Missle Crisis). Does that make you better or worse? Who actually gives a shit.
I wasn't arguing that free speach is something to be defended. Now if you actually look at my post you'll see that it's your parotting of the hundred posts previous to yours that parotted the hundred posts before them of the exact same phrases, that I dislike; you can think for yourself and say something original can't you (at least jumble up the words or something).
Note: Yes, my father was really an embasy guard (I am being truthful), of course he said that he did it because after doing a couple of years there you got to pretty much pick which embassy you wanted to go. He met my Swiss mother there who was a nanny for some diplomats, and well the rest is how you say history. So I have a very firm grasp as to defending this country, and have a very large fucking clue about it.
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If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
The Bush campaign registered every derogatory domain name they could think of, to keep people from having websites that would post negative info about him. I'm sure other politicians have done or will do the same, it is a race to get them before someone else does. I wonder why they even bother - if someone thinks they suck, and wanna have a site to say so, why not just let them. Isn't that what freedom of speech is mainly about? Being able to express our pleasure/displeasure the government?
The problem here is by making a distinction between .sucks and .com or you don't get people getting the same information on the same searches. There may be a stigmatism from the information being on the .sucks tld, it is someone who is just complaining. Then you will have the issue of domain battles for barbie.sucks, because people will fight over who thinks barbie sucks more.
Fight Spammers!
First, you're attempting to apply logic to the situation. Never a good idea when legal matters are involved. Second, you should probably read all the fine print when you sign up for a domain name. Hell, read the fine print on that toaster you bought.
There's lots of language in these things about the applicable laws, regulations, and the right to choose venues (where any trial might take place). If you recall the UCITA had some particularly odious language about venue choice and gave all the power to the vendors.
Finally, *THE INTERNET ISN'T A LOCATION*. While you may live in NY, where is the server that's hosting your site? Maybe it's in your basement, or a local ISP, but maybe it's somewhere else in the US or the World. Second, where are the resources used to find and access your site? The distributed nature of the Internet laughs at national borders (though nations are trying to erect borders).
The WIPO and ICANN are organizations created by international treaties. Mainly they exist to exert US laws on the rest of the world, so we shouldn't complain (if we're "greedy blood-sucking RIAA-spawn corporations") about the rules they impose on us.
So, remember when you sign up for that domain name, read the fine print.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
I thought Comsucks was for Comcast's new "high speed" cable modem service.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
If you registered it presumably the MPAA would (sooner or later) womp out the lawyers and claim the domain for themselves, of course at some point the RIAA would also notice it...
Nature abhors a paradox
We can but dream
By attacking these sites, Big Business wish to muffle criticism.
They also wish to have sole control of these WORDS - have PRIORITY over others using the same words as them.
Like I say - MOST share the same words with others.
e.g. Why should Dell Computers have priority over others using the word Dell?
This one from the year 1943 - filing Date October 27, 1958 - don't they have precedence?
Word Mark DELL - US Serial Number 72061365
Goods and Services IC 016. US 038. G & S: PAPERBACK BOOKS AND PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. FIRST USE: 19430500. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19430500
Lawyers are making a loads of money from Big Business clients attacking these sucks sites.
These are reasons why they both do not want a solution to this problem - they are CORRUPT.
The moderator of my previous post was being disingenuous - the contents was on topic - so is either moron, lawyer or in Big Business.
Free Speech is a right - not a privilege. Americans - check out the First Amendment: they abridge what words you can use.
Will Ed Harvilla give me the site EdHarvillaSucks.com for free?
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I will draw your attention to my posting below, with reference to the following quote from your link:
"Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)"