Willow ,'Get It Done'
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
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).
The two domains were .us and a .biz.
.tv didn't enter into it.
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.
if it's a spam, it's the world's lamest.
No quarrel there. Just pretty sure it is one, over here.
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?
I think we should save hard stomping for explicit spam.
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.
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.
Did this spammer have a buffista URL? I can't really follow what happened here.
The poster said that a couple domains had dropped (as in their previous owners hadn't re-upped) and that they were available.
That explanation is possibly longer than the original post.
The poster's username is the URL to a domain registrar. One of the domains listed is still available, one is not.