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Re: This is awful
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Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:06:54 GMT
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Doesn't that assume that the 'deserving' organization knows to ask?  Sort
of like selling Star Wars sets on eBay: it works as long as there are
ignorant suckers.

Steve

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:45:40 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:

Don't sweat it. This is one scam that won't work. interNIC will yank
their registration and give it to the organization that should rightly
have it. All that organization has to do is ask. If they have been using
the initials for some time it will be an open and shut case.

Steve Bliss wrote:

This isn't really .fun, but it is off-topic (but related to what's going on
in lugnet.cad.dev).

I just stumbled across a web page advertising domains for sale.
Apparently, some scum has snagged a bunch of domain names, and is trying to
scalp them for thousands of dollars.  Look at <http://www.dss.org/> to see
what I mean.

That's just really sad and lame.

Steve

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(...) Yes, that's true, but if the organization surfs to interNIC to look up the proposed domain name, it's pretty obvious what interNIC policy on name homesteading is. Agree with the original post that it's sad and lame, though. (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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Don't sweat it. This is one scam that won't work. interNIC will yank their registration and give it to the organization that should rightly have it. All that organization has to do is ask. If they have been using the initials for some time it will (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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