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Experience with Fighting Domain Farming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gimme-malda-dot-com-dangit dept.

Lost_my_regs writes "I had a .com domain name relevant only to me, no legal trademark, registered and hosted at a provider that went bust. When attempting to re-host the domain I discovered, to my unpleasant surprise, that the domain is now registered by a domain farming company (name removed). My question is: Is there any way to claim back my domain?"

12 of 259 comments (clear)

  1. Find them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...kill them, wait two years and reclaim what is yours.

    1. Re:Find them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Since they're probably in the Cayman Islands, you can have a nice holiday while you're at it.

    2. Re:Find them... by cyphercell · · Score: 2, Funny

      all he needs now is beautiful blond and he's the james bond of web-nerds.

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      Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
  2. Sue by mastershake_phd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sue, sue everybody. Sue the now defunct company that lost your domain. Sue the company that bought your domain. Sue the owners of said companies directly. Sue their parents, their wives, and their children. Sue their pets. Sue everybody!

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    Libertarian Leaning Political Discussion Forum.
  3. Re:On a related note... by noidentity · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got a particularly unique first name, and I'd like to buy myfirstname.com, which is obviously parked.

    Let me guess, your last name is mylastname? Unique, definitely, but unfortunate I'd say.

  4. Think bigger by Hexedian · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real solution involves finding the domain farmer's home address. The real solution also involves burly men and baseball bats.

  5. Re:Great Idea by whoever57 · · Score: 1, Funny

    In this course of action you're bound to find somebody that's wronged you. Dumped by a girl in high school,
    This is a /. reader we are discussing. In order to be dumped by a girl in high school, he would have had to have had a girlfriend in high school. As a /. reader, this is implausible.
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    The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
  6. Re:In a word, no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    you know - when i first came to /. i spent ages and a day trying to figure out who this prolific anonymous coward chap was - ha!

  7. Re:Wait by IBBoard · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...it was a waste of monkey to farm


    So that's how they register all of these expiring domains: well trained and literate monkeys that are shackled to computers and then forced to read lists of expiring domains before repeatedly filling in the form required to register them!

    Don't waste your spare monkey - set him folding, or running SETI or something!
  8. Re:In a word, no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have met the enemy and he is us.
        -- Pogo

  9. Re:pinkfud-fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In English, it is common to append the word "fuck", or a derivative, to nouns (in this case 'pink-fud') in an effort to be offensive or affect an insult. On the internet, it is also common to find people who pursue, almost exclusively, offensive and insulting behaviors. Therefore, on the internet, you'll often find comments in English like "Goatse-fucker", "fud-fucker", "shill-fucker", "Digg-fucker", etc, which are properly understood as part of the problem in giving fuck-wits (reversed order) access to powerful communication tools. Those dumb internet-fucks--I'm sure you can see how this works now.

  10. Re:No, go lower on the counter offer. by gomoX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sadly I don't think that works when the particular action involved happens to be "giving away value at a discount price".

    If you disagree with that then I have a bridge on sale that you might be interested in, you dimwitted fuck.

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    My english is sow-sow. Sowhat?