on 5/30/02 12:49 PM, R.A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > that's not the point. it did expire. The point is that bottom feeders like > Dotster make a living by monitoring expirations just in case someone wants > to smash and grab. ---- An illegal act is one thing - a morally odious act is just another aspect of Capitalism. If Mr. Crespo wanted that site name and used SlashDot to get it, well, that's the way the system works, right? It's like the companies that send our business (XYZ.com) letters saying that another company is "trying to buy the XYZ.net domain and may use it to undermine your business, so you'd better buy the XYZ.net name yourself at our low, low price of only $79 for the first year to ensure your businesses integrity." It sucks, but you have to be careful. Frankly, letting the domain name slip out of your hands because you forgot to renew the name isn't very businesslike either. That being said, the owner of MacSlash has posted on the site (which for some reason is showing up on my computer, even after repeated refreshes) that he has paid up and that this is a mistake. The whole thing sounds strange to me. Are you saying Dotster was monitoring the MacSlash domain and bought it out the day it lapsed from ownership just to resell to this Mr. Crespo?
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