Because they've done it thousands of other times. If you approach them with a lawsuit they'll probably hand it over to avoid the hassle. remember, they don't really want your domain that bad.
I manage the links for an educational portal, and with around 100,000 links in the database you're going to see a lot of domains get dropped. It seems like every week or so that I get an email from an angry parent or teacher who is outraged that we link to porn sites, when it turns out that we were linking to a perfectly legitimate site that went under and the domain was bought up by porn-mongers.
The strategy is this: buy up a thousand sites that went back on the market for around $12 each, redirect them to your porn sites so you are getting bookmark and search-engine traffic from the old site, and if one out of a hundred ex-webmasters who was willing to give up his domain but is not willing to see it turned into porn actually buys it back for 100x the price of registering then you are breaking even. If someone threatens a lawsuit, give it up and call it a loss.
I really hope more people start challenging crap like this.
No serious website will ever switch from gif to png because everybody is worried about supporting old browsers.
The need for backward compatibility is what's eventually going to bring the internet to it's knees.
It's like how one day some guy misspelled the word 'referer' and years later every web programmer in the world has to follow his example and look like an idiot.
Just to go against your theory: I've rewritten web apps from c into php and seen a performance gain. The reason? php scripts run in process with the web server while my c cgi's had to fork.
in other words, it's unreliable, right? What happens when the machine goes down and all your data is in RAM? I think this may be acceptable only for e-commerce appliations that store only session information in this way.
well from watching startrek I've realized that the evolution of the gui will converge at some future point to an ideal state. Notice how an alien from an unknown quadrant of the universe can sit behind ops in a starfleet vessel for the first time and feel right at home. If gui's in alien cultures will have evolved independently to the same point, I think that makes a statement about role of "human perception" in how we like to play with our computers.
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Because they've done it thousands of other times. If you approach them with a lawsuit they'll probably hand it over to avoid the hassle. remember, they don't really want your domain that bad.
I manage the links for an educational portal, and with around 100,000 links in the database you're going to see a lot of domains get dropped. It seems like every week or so that I get an email from an angry parent or teacher who is outraged that we link to porn sites, when it turns out that we were linking to a perfectly legitimate site that went under and the domain was bought up by porn-mongers.
The strategy is this: buy up a thousand sites that went back on the market for around $12 each, redirect them to your porn sites so you are getting bookmark and search-engine traffic from the old site, and if one out of a hundred ex-webmasters who was willing to give up his domain but is not willing to see it turned into porn actually buys it back for 100x the price of registering then you are breaking even. If someone threatens a lawsuit, give it up and call it a loss.
I really hope more people start challenging crap like this.
syntax like that is discouraged. Since php code is embedded in the html, you use html where it's appropriate:
<?
echo "
<b> this is html </b>
";
?>
is uglier than:
<b> this is html </b>
so why use it?
No serious website will ever switch from gif to png because everybody is worried about supporting old browsers.
The need for backward compatibility is what's eventually going to bring the internet to it's knees.
It's like how one day some guy misspelled the word 'referer' and years later every web programmer in the world has to follow his example and look like an idiot.
-- my $.02
Just to go against your theory: I've rewritten web apps from c into php and seen a performance gain. The reason? php scripts run in process with the web server while my c cgi's had to fork.
What happens when the machine goes down and all your data is in RAM? I think this may be acceptable only for e-commerce appliations that store only session information in this way.
that's just my opinion.
well from watching startrek I've realized that the evolution of the gui will converge at some future point to an ideal state. Notice how an alien from an unknown quadrant of the universe can sit behind ops in a starfleet vessel for the first time and feel right at home. If gui's in alien cultures will have evolved independently to the same point, I think that makes a statement about role of "human perception" in how we like to play with our computers.