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Comment on The Misconceptions of the Cybersquatter by Fox

Fox — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:49:26 +0000

I have become a victim of this practice, due in part to my own negligence. I owned a domain for roughly 6 years that had no value but due to the length of time I had it, it gained a considerable amount of traffic and it was used to promote a project. There was a problem where the card that the domain was under expired just before the renewal, and by the very next day it went up for grabs, it was taken even though I had fixed the error on my part. Immediately resold to me the original owner for 2000 dollars, I still haven’t been able to repurchase it, and due to this the networking I had done through the site was completely lost. There was a trademark on the domain as well, but I had let it expire after this incident, and this was before the everyday term “cybersquatting” became common knowledge.

My whole point is, not EVERYONE is doing this with honorable intentions. A well-travelled domain is published in a public list as soon to be renewed/expired, how many commodoties do you know of that advertise to people sitting in the comfort of their own home that they are up for grabs with just one click? Nowadays you can even reserve a domain years in advance and pull an enormous profit from. I’m not fond of the ebay resellers either you pointed out, because most of them obtain things by shady tactics that a common person may not be aware of. Anything online is a game to these people, because most of it is automated.

I don’t disagree with the nature of your post, but there are other factors (the human factor).

Comment on The Misconceptions of the Cybersquatter by admin

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:05:03 +0000

I can’t make a name valuable by holding on to it, the value must already exist to the person trying to buy the domain. It is obviously not worthless if someone is willing to pay for it. Water is needed to survive, you would be scum because you would be forcing people to buy from you or die. Someone holding a domain is not at all the same as someone controlling something required to live. Laws exist against that, basic human rights laws, also not all domains are being bought by these people. You are using a straw man argument so I will leave it at that.

Comment on The Misconceptions of the Cybersquatter by Not a Bot

Not a Bot — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:47:39 +0000

I disagree completely. When you buy up domain names in the hope that you can resell them for a lot of money, your just trying to make something valuable by hording a lot of worthless property. I’d compare domains to water. Extremely cheap, available to everyone but if I blocked off all lakes and rivers, damned it up and tried to sell it to the public for $20/L would I be scum, or just a business man running a business?

Comment on Beards are Back by admin

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:22:15 +0000

Always, you see the increase in testosterone allows a man to grow facial hair. manhood:the state of being a man; manly qualities, since only men have the testosterone levels which enable beard growth it is a manly quality. I think you may have read into my statements a little to deep or maybe misunderstood. It is quite obvious that a beard is a male specific quality.

Comment on Quality Ingredients and Quality Meals by Ashton

Ashton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:37:20 +0000

Just one word: great!

Comment on From OLD PNphpBB2/Postnuke to phpBB3/portal by LOLfunnyguy

LOLfunnyguy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:28:05 +0000

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Im new here and just wanted to say yoo, hello, hey, or ne other forms of it……..

Comment on From OLD PNphpBB2/Postnuke to phpBB3/portal by MichaellaS

MichaellaS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:02:10 +0000

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

Comment on Hardware Store Price Discrepancy by Cohen

Cohen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:45:50 +0000

Great work – Can you please email me and let me know more about your sources?

Comment on From OLD PNphpBB2/Postnuke to phpBB3/portal by Rick

Rick — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:08:19 +0000

Having used portals on a few sites now I would recommend Board3 Portal as phpBB3portal doesn’t seem to be as actively developed now. Joomla is a bit heavy for mist tasks and not my favorite CMS by any means. If you wish to bridge with a CMS I’d choose something lighter like Drupal or ModX.

Comment on From OLD PNphpBB2/Postnuke to phpBB3/portal by Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:07:42 +0000

I am in the process of converting an old site from PostNuke and PNphpBB2 to PHPBB3 and Something else. At the time of writing, you chose canverportal (Now phpBB3portal) Are you still using this, and would you still use this today if you were to do it over?

I had intended to Bridge phpBB3 with Joomla, but I am considering other options also. Any Advise or options will be considered.

I’ve already converted the Forum to a Stand Alone phpBB3, I just need to decide on a CMS or Portal for the other Site Content.

Thanks.