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In lugnet.general, Kenneth Wright writes:
> At this point, I look at a "community purchase" of the site as a form of
> damage control. We have a chance to grab up what was a very useful site to
> LEGO enthusiasts, and make it so once again.
Well, long ago, it may have been, but everything that was LEGO-related (except
for the backgrounds) eventually migrated to lugnet.com. And now that the
backgrounds reside at a new home
http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/backgrounds/
there isn't much point in resurrecting anything at the old place except to
oust the squatter and put up some redirects or something. I haven't decided
yet how aggressively I'll pursue the squatter issue.
> It may encourage and reinforce
> this type of internet opportunist behavior at the moment, but if we take
> this as a lesson learned to be more aggressive in protecting our domain
> names, we can keep it from happening again.
Whoa, "our" domain names? Hey man, the domain fibblesnork.com, since 1996,
has always been the place of a _personal_ website. It happened to have,
among other things including pictures of my cats and pickle recipes, a mix
of LEGO-related stuff on it (the bulk of which moved off the site long ago).
I don't mean to sound brusque, and I apologize for everyone's links that are
no longer good, but this sort of thing is bound to happen in the community
from time to time, and it happened once before with legopolis.com, when its
content was migrated to baseplate.com and legopolis.com was turned over to
LEGO, and when LEGO failed to pursue it actively, an opportunistic cyber-
squatter jumped in just like here.
--Todd
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| (...) This was basically what I had intended with my suggestion. I would not for a moment consider paying $550 for someone else's domain name, but at approximately .50 per member to save the headaches and "oust the squatter" didn't seem like a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Hey Todd, Here's some info I ran across while researching another topic. It is relevant and timely if you choose to persue anything regarding fibblesnork.com. For anyone who doesn't know the story: the domain www.sting.com was registered by a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) You make a very good and valid point. I certainly do not condone how this was done, nor do I want to encourage it, but at the moment there are lots of fibblesnork links on pages and sites across the internet (both forgotten and not) that now (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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