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?".
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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
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?
§ 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.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 3:32:23 pm PDT #1351 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sorry. .biz is available.
it's apparent that the poster was "fudging heartily" (love that phrase).
Sure. Or they were doing a mass notification and hadn't checked to see if the domain had been registered in the meanwhile.
I know we don't have to be all about reasonable doubt, or anything, but I still think if it's a spam, it's the world's lamest.
amych - Jun 04, 2004 3:33:28 pm PDT #1352 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
if it's a spam, it's the world's lamest.
No quarrel there. Just pretty sure it is one, over here.
Jon B. - Jun 04, 2004 3:37:02 pm PDT #1353 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Or they were doing a mass notification and hadn't checked to see if the domain had been registered in the meanwhile.
Huh? In amych's post above, the registrant's email is listed as admin@<the-user-id-of-the-spammer>. Where's the doubt?
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 3:37:28 pm PDT #1354 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we should save hard stomping for explicit spam.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2004 3:41:40 pm PDT #1355 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's the doubt?
Because if you go to that site, you can't buy the domain! If you try and register it there, it won't let you. So no profit for them. If you try and register .biz, you're golden. Golden anywhere else on the web too.
I doubt it makes any sense at all. That's what I doubt.
If the registrar name was the same as the user's registered e-mail address, I'd write it off as stupidity. Having seen people use a registrar with a mechanism that doesn't put their own ID in that spot (my former employees did it, when the person registering wasn't tech-savvy -- it's hardly rare), I don't see anything incontrovertible here.
I just don't see the big deal.
Jon B. - Jun 04, 2004 3:50:52 pm PDT #1356 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Because if you go to that site, you can't buy the domain!
Oh. I assumed that they were reselling it at a premium. But I just checked it out and don't see where they are doing that. Huh.
I doubt it makes any sense at all. That's what I doubt.
Right there with you now.