At 10:12 PM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>As irony would have it given recent discussions here about .union and
>.sucks, our local county newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal, ran a
>feature article today, "Online whines with a bitter aftertaste."
>
>Dan Parisi , founder of Whitehouse.com (a porn site) has spent
>approximately $100,000 to register the domain names
>of more than 500 of the world's largest companies plus
>the "sucks.com" suffix, a traditional Web addendum to
>identify a site for complaints, as in
>yourcompanysucks.com.
>
>>From TWAsucks to Ciscosucks, MerrillLynchsucks and
>GMsucks, he is sitting on perversions of some of the
>most valuable brand names in the world. "I did a pretty
>thorough job," he said. "I took everything I could get."
>
>He even spent $5,000 to buy the "Microsoftsucks.com"
>domain name from someone who had already
>registered it.
>
>The goal: To create a giant portal that will serve as a
>clearinghouse for consumer and worker rants, raves
>and indiscriminate corporate caterwauling.
>
>Parisi even got personal. Problems with your Dell
>computer? You'll be able to whine at
>MichaelDellsucks.com. Feeling gouged by that e-Bay
>auction? MegWhitmansucks.com will be the place for
>you. Travelers, take note: from HongKongsucks.com to
>Idahosucks.com, his portal will have a place for your
>views.
>
>The piece de resistance: Instead of the Fortune 500,
>he plans to post the "Sucks 500."
>
>-- more at: http://www.marinij.com/news/techbiz/index.html
Registrant:
Plb (DANPARISISUCKS-DOM)
Post office Box 1009
Secaucus, NJ 07094
US
Domain Name: DANPARISISUCKS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
Parisi, Dan (DP996) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Parisi
Post Office Box 1009
Secaucus, NJ 07094
973-503-1785
He didn't get any of the dash-level-domains:
% whois pepsi-sucks.com
Querying rs.internic.net...
Whois Server Version 1.1
Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
No match for "PEPSI-SUCKS.COM".
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