Oh. Bummer. It is interesting that in the short period of time it took
for you to address the re-registration, this person must have had some
way of knowing that a valid registered URL expired and hence scooped it
up. Anyway, I think this would fall under the ICANN's uniform
domain-name dispute-resolution policy:
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
That sounds like "cybersquatting" and unless this person has some type
of valid claim to such a URL name, he would have to give it up, I think,
to someone with a more valid claim. However, "gnuplot" isn't a
trademarked name by developers... which would be the convincing evidence
that it should be relinquished. Furthermore, the fees for arbitration
are probably prohibitive in this situation.
I guess a Jack Handy quote is in order: "If you ever drop your keys into
a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone."
Dan
John A. Turner wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
>> Yes, the less "location dependent" the address the better, even if it
>> simply serves as an alias and gets resolved somewhere else.
>> (Although .info seems unconventional, but big woop.)
>
>
> that's a long, sad, frustrating story that still angers me every time
> I think about it
>
> the short version is that I registered gnuplot.org for the project
> several years ago, and it happened to come up for renewal right while
> I was in the midst of a cross-country move (yes, there were renewal
> warnings from the place I registered - a significant portion of the
> anger mentioned above is directed at myself), and a poacher grabbed
> it the day it expired and made it a click-through ad site (or whatever
> you call it) - please don't even go there, it probably just encourages
> him to see traffic on it (though to this day I don't really understand
> how it makes him money)
>
> needless to say, several of us tried to convince him to give (or even
> sell) it back to us, but, well, let's just say he was a real piece of
> work
>
> I actually thought I was going to be able to get it back the last
> time it came up for renewal - I was hoping that the traffic had dropped
> off so much that he had decided it was no longer worth it - it got down
> to within days of expiring, then he renewed it - even worse, as I recall
> this time he renewed for 3 years or something
>
> bottom line is that it's gone, and it's my fault
>
> -John Turner
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Continuum Dynamics Group (CCS-2)
> Coupled Multiphysics Team Leader (Acting)
>
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