> I stand corrected, although the new registrant is not a thief, you must > agree redirecting to a porn site is obviously an exploit.
No, I don't agree. > If you don't agree, try letting your domain expire and I'll be sure to > redirect your traffic to us. I *have* inadvertently let a domain expire, and it *did* immediately get snapped up and used for something else that I didn't approve of, and it *did* cost my business lost revenue. But the new registrant didn't do anything wrong in my case, so I didn't complain or sue. >From the limited information I've heard regarding the domain under discussion, I still don't think the new registrant has done anything wrong, whether you want to call it theft, an exploit, or whatever. If a domain expires, and someone else registers it and uses it for something different, even porn, that's entirely legitimate. Or uses it for nothing at all. Or point it at someone else's web site. Once it has expired, the original registrant has no grounds for complaint, except in the case of trademark violation, which apparently has not happened in this case. > Really, Eric... The new registrant did nothing wrong? Do you think porn > is really good thing on the Internet? I'm not knocking porn in the > bedroom, or the money it makes, but it has really become the bane of > the Internet. I'm not interested in porn on the Internet. But I don't think it's a bad thing. Some people do, but that's their misfortune. How can we have freedom of expression if we tell some people that their expression is bad? Porn on the internet only bothers me when it is emailed to me as spam. And there, the problem isn't the porn, it's the spam. > Have you ever been drug in to court and wasted time and money? Yes. > I do > agree with your point that it appears the ISP has performed and > actionable offense. You're putting words in my mouth. I doubt that the ISP's behavior constitutes an actionable offense, unless it can be shown to be the result of malice or gross negligence. (Perhaps it is.) I was just stating that it sounded like the ISP was "the bad guy", which is just a value judgement on my part. > Perhaps I fell for your ploy to respond. I won't get wound up over > this, just thought you would want clarification. Not a ploy. Sounds like we disagree on just about everything about this, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I don't feel like beating it into the ground either, but I wanted to clarify that I was NOT trolling. It's entirely possible that my opinion on this is unpopular, however. By the way, what about your web site are you claiming was copied? The other site seemed only vaguely similar. Best regards, Eric
