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
Here's the problem I have. I ran the whois for both vampireslayer.us and vampireslayer.biz, and they are both owned by a Steven Diaz, whose email address is admin@unleasheddomains.com. That says to me that unleashed domains owns both domains, so that if you want to use one, you'll have to pay them for the privilege. That's one of the ways they make their money. If you try to get one of them through NSI, say, then NSI presents you with a screen asking you to make an offer to the owner.
I still think it was spam, and it seems to me that their apology is just covering their ass so they can do it to others.
Ah. Well it looks like they won't be back anyway.
vampireslayer.biz was
not
owned at the time of my posts last night.
NSI tells you to make an offer to the owner. Register.com does not. Domaindiscover does not. UNLEASHEDDOMAINS does not. So even if they'd both been in their nefarious pockets at the time of post ... I don't see how that's spammy.
Register.com does not.
Yes, they do. Minimum bid is $200 through them.
Sorry. I didn't notice that.
However, the assertion that they were selling something they didn't own (the .biz) still strikes me as odd.
The idea that the post could be taken at face value does not seem naive to me.
The response was very unequivocal to something that was ambiguous at best.
So, we're not changing our URL to vampireslayer.biz, then?
vampireslayer.tv might still be open. We could totally do that.
Lemme know when they offer hairloaf.biz
I think Plei owns that one.
We should get noneofyour.biz.
