Seems like organizations like GoDaddy get to park a lot of these domain names and wait for a fish to bite. I'm thinking that they are register servers or something of the ilk and get to do this for free or very low cost. If you do a whois on them, they are all parked at CASHPARKING.COM, which is just their fishing rod.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Marnie (aka Doe) wrote: >> >> Okay, squatters, nice to know, Larry. >> >> When you go to the original sites, it says someone is willing to sell >> this domain name. >> >> You're probably right, the hosting site could have done it. > > > Have you done a whois on the domain name? > > What was the old domain? > >> >> One thing, though, even with .org and .com changes, all my old files are >> still there, so just moving them over. > > > Don't even need to move the files, just update DNS so the new domain name > points to them. > >> >> What a relief!!! >> >> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> >> On 5/10/2017 12:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> Marnie (aka Doe) wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Domain name scammers! >>> >>> >>> Actually, the term is squatters. It's often the registrars themselves >>> that do it, because it doesn't cost them any money. >>> >>> For historical reasons (the name of my first xenix box was limited to 7 >>> characters), when my email went from a bang path >>> ucscc.ucsc.edu!red4est!lrc, to domains red4est.felton.ca.us, I then >>> registered red4est.com rather than redforest.com. By the time the web >>> became popular enough, someone else had registered redforest.com and >>> when it lapsed a squatter had taken it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
