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F R E N D Z of martian
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Dodgy. Looks like AOL are their own NIC/registrar, and when they find a
domain they want they just transfer it to Compuserve's registrar. (I
assume that they own Compuserve, I haven't been watching/caring...)
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:41:53 -0400
From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list RANDOM-BITS
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Random-bits] AOL and AOLBETA.com
Ted Byfield ran across this interesting URL:
http://observers.net/aolbeta.html
AOLBeta.Com stolen from 16 year old by AOL
By Scott
(updated 9/5 9:30am EST, see bottom)
The latest owner of AOLBeta.com has lost the domain to America Online,
adding to a list of problems with this domain. 16 year old Nickolas
Grove registered the domain AOLBeta.com on August 20 after seeing the
domain was free to purchase.
Nickolas started noticing trouble on August 30 when he had trouble
uploading his completed webpage, which took him over a week to
construct. After contacting his web hosting provider, it was determined
that the DNS (Domain Name Server) settings were incorrect. America
Online had simply transferred the domain to their ICANN Registrar,
therefore pulling any control that Nickolas had of the domain,
regardless of the fact that the domain was not paid for by AOL.
[snip]
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