MacSlash Up at macslash.org

M. Uli Kusterer writes "After the recent problems with its .com domain expiring and the notice from dotster being eaten by mac.com's over-eager spam filter, MacSlash now has registered the www.macslash.org domain. So, tell your friends and surf over there again :-)" It came back up for me over the weekend. Read of the events that led up to this. The short of it: mac.com, without MacSlash's knowledge, filtered as spam their domain renewal notice, and someone swiped the domain when it expired.

Comments

yet another downside of spam...

[j-turkey]

...legitimate email being eaten up by anti-spam filters.


-Turkey

Is this really very news worthy?

[elliotj]

I hate to say it (b/c I do enjoy reading Macslash), but I don't think this story is really worth running again.

There's a lot of blame going around, but the fact is that the MacSlash management forgot to reregister their domain name. Things in life get screwed up all the time for various reasons. Being well organized requires some discipline. If they had marked in their calendar when their domain was about to expire, they would have contacted their domain registrar prior to losing the right to their name.

Frankly I think they're incredibly lucky that the guy agreed to give them the name back. Bully for them.

But this isn't a big story guys. It's been discussed already. Let's move on with talking about the Mac platform, not the missteps of a website that talks about the Mac platform.

Re:Is this really very news worthy?

[Dephex Twin]

Let's move on with talking about the Mac platform, not the missteps of a website that talks about the Mac platform.

Why the heck shouldn't he mention where MacSlash has been relocated? A site that talks about Apple isn't close enough to "Apple" to be mentioned? Why does the subject matter have to be strictly the Mac platform and nothing in the periphery?

Get over it!

mark

Re:Is this really very news worthy?

[geneshifter]

Of course this is newsworthy, at least for us mac geeks!! If anyone has a mac.com email address, they need to reconsider using it as a primary email address. If important messages are being deleted without my knowledge, that pretty much makes it useless. Better to use a different account, unless of course you like playing russian roulette with your messages.

Bulk Spam Filter...

[appletag]

It seems Dotster (his registrar) sends a fair amount of bulk mail asking people to switch to their service. It seems Apple filtered them due to their "bulk" status. Alot of spammers avoid this by using alot of unique addresses to avoid classification as "Bulk SPAM". This is probably why you see a fair amoung of SPAM on mac.com

sounds like incompetence oh behalf of the owner

[azosx]

Did USPS happen to gobble up the paper renewal forms as well? I find it hard to believe he wasn't mailed any. I've read over all the information presented by MacSlash and it would seem the blame falls upon the owner, not anyone else, because of his irresponsibility as the head of the company. I own several bars, and by not renewing the liquor license on time, I could be subject to thousands of dollars in penalties and fines, despite whether I received renewal information or not. He should have known his "rent was up" so to say. Perhaps this is a valuable lesson he can learn from in the future.

Troll this down all you want, it's just my 2c.

Could we get the SlashBox fixed?

[Mononoke]

The MacSlash slashbox still links to MacSlash.com, and hasn't been updating, either.

fyi

Cut 'em some slack

[coolgeek]

I've got my issues with MacSlash letting heavy-handed moderators run rampant. That said, I also want to say I think they deserve a little break here. I get the impression that MacSlash is more of a hobby for the guys involved; I don't believe they are fortunate enough to be able to turn it into their "Day Job", like the /. crew.

Pointing fingers at them for malfeasance is a bit of an overreaction. These guys have been providing a service to the Mac community, and IMO, thanking them is more appropriate. And what about the individual that acquired the macslash.com domain? His/her actions are akin to keeping the wallet they found even though the rightful owners' address is in it.

Re:Cut 'em some slack

[aozilla]

I get the impression that MacSlash is more of a hobby for the guys involved

Sounds like MacSlash.org is a better domain name for them than MacSlash.com anyway, then.

macslash.com

[Khopesh]

http://macslash.com/
why would somebody swipe the domain only to put up just a link to the real one? there's no ad or anything on that page. The page forwards to http://www.merc-net.com/md/macslash.htm, which seems to be some kind of communications web portal. There is a meta tag that I don't understand:
<meta name="forwarder" content="abc.dnsix.att">

perhaps somebody noticed and snatched it before a squatter could get it, but then they should be offering it back to the macslash people...

Repeat ten times to yourself:

[Golias]

Not all Slashdot readers, nor even all Slashdot editors, hold the exact same opinions concerning intellectual property laws.

Gawd, you are just as bad as those trolls that post the "I thought we hate the MPAA" messages every time /. reviews a movie.