--------------75C7A13625824B6A36BD8630 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My home state in malaysia is Perlis.. so one day, when I was bored as there was no tasks for me to do, I went to www.register.com, and did a search for perlis.com which I found out is owned by a clothing company in New Orleans, Louisiana... which name perlis.. and I understand that it's derived from the founder's family name.. which is Perlis... Then when I search for perlis.net... I found out it is an estate somewhere in Mexico/South America or US states near the Maxican border... This means somehow... the names conflicting with each other and both of them is a valid one to claim the domain name.... and in this case... first come first served method is used to determine who should own the name... It's a funny thing that the same unique name exist on both end of the world... :) BTW... you can take azaminabadin.com/net ... azamin.com/net is already taken by another azamin... heheh:) I'm not sure about garygrossmann.com/net or grossmann.com/net... Azamin Larry Steller wrote: > Those who found the discussions about cybersquatting > intersting may want to check this out: > > http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0800&id=021204141315451659 > > Similar to Mark's tale of someone registering > sergioaragones.com, someone apparently registered > michaelcrichton.com, and Mr. Crichton recently won > control over that, too. > > (meanwhile, I'm just squatting away on > garygrossmann.com, azaminabadin, janetharriett.com, > ericchun.com, denishackney.com, charlesklein.com, > stevekuhn.com, chrisschechner.com, rickloomis.com, > gabrielowens.com, chadriden.com, tylersticka.com, > fredvigeant.com, gregcraill.com, and for good measure, > craigcraill.com as well...) > --------------75C7A13625824B6A36BD8630 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> My home state in malaysia is Perlis.. so one day, when I was bored as there was no tasks for me to do, I went to www.register.com, and did a search for perlis.com which I found out is owned by a clothing company in New Orleans, Louisiana... which name perlis.. and I understand that it's derived from the founder's family name.. which is Perlis... Then when I search for perlis.net... I found out it is an estate somewhere in Mexico/South America or US states near the Maxican border... This means somehow... the names conflicting with each other and both of them is a valid one to claim the domain name.... and in this case... first come first served method is used to determine who should own the name... It's a funny thing that the same unique name exist on both end of the world... :)
BTW... you can take azaminabadin.com/net ... azamin.com/net is already taken by another azamin... heheh:) I'm not sure about garygrossmann.com/net or grossmann.com/net...Azamin
Larry Steller wrote:
Those who found the discussions about cybersquatting--------------75C7A13625824B6A36BD8630--
intersting may want to check this out:http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0800&id=021204141315451659
Similar to Mark's tale of someone registering
sergioaragones.com, someone apparently registered
michaelcrichton.com, and Mr. Crichton recently won
control over that, too.(meanwhile, I'm just squatting away on
garygrossmann.com, azaminabadin, janetharriett.com,
ericchun.com, denishackney.com, charlesklein.com,
stevekuhn.com, chrisschechner.com, rickloomis.com,
gabrielowens.com, chadriden.com, tylersticka.com,
fredvigeant.com, gregcraill.com, and for good measure,
craigcraill.com as well...)