Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:12:58 -0400 | From | Ben McCann <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Disgusting, completely disgusting |
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The www.linuxadvocacy.org FQDN is taken from the 'org' address space and it is my understanding that '.org' names are for _non_profit_ organizations. Clearly, someone who uses this FQDN to redirect you to 'datahelpers.com' is doing so to increase their company's profits.
I don't know the correct contact with the domain name registry folks but perhaps we can point out this abuse of a domain name. At a minimum, datahelpers should be admonished to not use the name as a shortcut to their website and, perhaps, the name could be stripped from datahelpers.com.
-Ben McCann
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > I believe the URL will tell all. > > http://www.linuxadvocacy.org > > This is simply disturbing me to no end. An outrageous and > blatent abuse of the Linux community. Not to mention an abuse > of Linus's trademark. > > Someone asked me for an advocacy site, and off the top of my head > I provided some URL's. The above one was obviously wrong as it > is NOT an advocacy site, but nothing more than a domain squatter > redirecting pages to a site that has completely nothing to do > with Linux advocacy. > > I'm VERY PISSED about this. Someone out there could make a very > decent Linux advocacy site, and that is the ideal name for > it. Instead, some ASSHOLE has SWALLOWED the damned domain. > > Can someone do something about this? I know if I had registered > "intel.com" before Intel did, that my ass would be in a > sling. Why is it not the same the other way around? > > All I can say is "time to bring out Guido, the big mean penguin > with the gold tooth and baseball bat". > > TTYL > > -- > Mike A. Harris Linux advocate > Computer Consultant GNU advocate > Capslock Consulting Open Source advocate > > Try out Red Hat Linux today: http://www.redhat.com > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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