Comments on: Have you ever Been Cybersquatted?

By: Outsanity

Outsanity — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:18:35 +0000

not sure if this helps http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Reclaim_Your_Site_From_Domain_Squatters

By: CHVNX

CHVNX — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:45:21 +0000

Me + Life – Internet = Death

By: pierce284

pierce284 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:19:17 +0000

lockergnome…i can think of a lot of random hings

By: relentlessJnin

relentlessJnin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:14:42 +0000

a joke

By: relentlessJnin

relentlessJnin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:05:47 +0000

april fools bro

By: MountainPulver

MountainPulver — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:06:36 +0000

Can you tell us more about anti-cybersquatting legislation; its historical, present, and future implications? Where can or can’t I squat?

By: ChrisTheFeral

ChrisTheFeral — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:31:33 +0000

I haven’t been cybersquatted but other people have made a .net after I have made the .com and make it their own site, not selling it.

I once used SEDO to try and sell a domain, the domain was about to expire, a person put $120 down, they didn’t pay me, I think that they were waiting for it to expire so I just renewed it.

By: Stewart Graham

Stewart Graham — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:05:37 +0000

Regarding article on Cybersquatting. If, as you report
“Some people swear that if you do these lookups using a service like GoDaddy, a Cybersquatter will zap up the domain you want.” why don’t you suggest to all and sundry to log onto GoDaddy and start typing in ramdom silly website address and if a Cybersquatter zapps up the name isn’t this going to cost him/her money! Like a whole lot of money!!! If there is any truth in the rumour then cybersquatters will have to be more careful who/how they try to screw.

By: BitBurner

BitBurner — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:38:27 +0000

I just got back my domain from cyber squatters. They had it for six years and wanted $300+ dollars for scottwhitten.com. I used to email them every week and offer $1,000,000 just to piss them off. They got it when it had only been up for renewal for 2 days. I will never miss a renewal again!!! What a bunch of low lifes.

By: thefsxflyer

thefsxflyer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:56:50 +0000

I live in Colorado. I love Colorado!!!!

By: yertalert

yertalert — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:29:30 +0000

chapet!

By: Cortland Klein

Cortland Klein — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:23:38 +0000

True, however it is possible for a cybersquatter to register a domain but not link it to a webserver. In that case, your browser would show nothing, yet the domain would still be unavailable. At this point, it would be a good idea to right out attempt to purchase the domain as compared to just doing a whois on it and thinking you can buy it later.

However, I’m still not convinced that cybersquatters sit around all day snooping in on 3rd party whois lookups, though by all means it would be possible since most of these services run unencrypted over the wire.

By: summerwizz

summerwizz — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:24:54 +0000

yea i do sometimestype random sites too see whats there if nothing there i think of buying

By: Phil Campbell

Phil Campbell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:40:18 +0000

My font site foxyfonts dot com was swiped from under my nose! I accidentally let the registration lapse (missed the godaddy email among all their other junkmail offers) – by the time I realised, they had moved the URL into some kind of “quarantine” and I could not reapply for 60 days. When I did, I found some other guy had snapped it up before me. VERY annoying.

Phil Campbell

By: sora8089

sora8089 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:48:28 +0000

this one isn’t a joke i dont see how people find it weird too… its annoying when people use domain names just for advertising.