I saved a copy. I can put it back in if necessary, but I really don't think we should.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DXMachina - Jun 04, 2004 2:30:11 pm PDT #1341 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Jon B. - Jun 04, 2004 2:33:17 pm PDT #1342 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Read amych's edited post above. It was definitely spam: amych "Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?" Jun 4, 2004 4:25:10 pm PDT
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 2:41:36 pm PDT #1343 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Then I'm in need of technical help. Assuming s/he was lying about them having been dropped (what time does that GMT translate to?), and my registrar is operating from outdated records, since it's letting me register the domain name (it does tell me that the .com is unavailable, though). What happens now, and how does that user get my money?
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 2:44:00 pm PDT #1344 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As a note? The .tv domain is unregistered. Still not sure what the user's angle was.
amych - Jun 04, 2004 3:00:57 pm PDT #1345 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Assuming s/he was lying about them having been dropped (what time does that GMT translate to?),
Not so much lying, as fudging heartily -- they did drop, and spamboy snapped 'em up. Unless I'm miscalculating, 22:00 GMT translates to 2 pm board time.
and my registrar is operating from outdated records, since it's letting me register the domain name (it does tell me that the .com is unavailable, though).
Dunno about the records. I did the whois lookup through my hosting service's site (http://www.westhost.com, ftr), which is scary fast about the updates -- enough so that if I change DNS info, I hit refresh in another window, and it's there, without waiting an hour or a day or whenever for the next update.
I do know that if you try to register something that someone else has snapped up, you get a "we're sorry, but someone else registered that name before you did" message instead of being allowed to register it.
What happens now, and how does that user get my money?
Pure speculation? They're counting on someone who doesn't know the registration process very well, and assumes that the domain name in the username is the place to go register it. I'm also guessing that they sent that message to every Buffy site to be found on Google, so even if we know the score, someone else doesn't.
As a note? The .tv domain is unregistered. Still not sure what the user's angle was.
My registrar doesn't list .tv, so I wasn't able to look that one up. My assumption was that it'd be the same story as the .us.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 3:05:00 pm PDT #1346 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amych, I realised I'd been working the .tv while you were working the .us.
As of all my posts, .tv was unregistered.
It's possible I'm too techie to be a good target, but the idea of buying a domain from someone who hasn't said they're for sale didn't occur to me. I didn't even read the username until later.
amych - Jun 04, 2004 3:07:30 pm PDT #1347 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's possible I'm too techie to be a good target
Yeah, know that feeling. The idea of buying a domain from anyone random doesn't generally occur to me, and I'm not sure it would have if someone didn't say "hey, isn't that spam?".
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 3:11:11 pm PDT #1348 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But do you think a non-techie would assume that the username was the place to go register?
It's perfectly possible that that's precisely what the poster wanted. It isn't however, what the poster said. So I think the reaction somewhat unwarranted.
Jon B. - Jun 04, 2004 3:15:37 pm PDT #1349 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm amazed that anyone would get a mortgage from a company that can't spell "mortgage".
It isn't however, what the poster said. So I think the reaction somewhat unwarranted.
But -- at least with the .us one -- it's apparent that the poster was "fudging heartily" (love that phrase).
DXMachina - Jun 04, 2004 3:20:04 pm PDT #1350 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The two domains were .us and a .biz.
.tv didn't enter into it.