Lost domain name

[den]

Why the hell would pool.com want http://www.battyden.net/ ?

Comments

[taldragon.livejournal.com]

because they expect you to buy it back?

[kythrain.livejournal.com]

Batty den... as in a place for people with 'bats in the belfry' to hang out. They figure they can sell it again.

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

The same reason a company wanted www.capemayfurmeet.org.

They figure it already has page views with regular viewers, so they can leach off of them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Because somebody owns it. They're domain poachers - you can either change your domain at potentially considerable annoyance and expense, or you can pay them to get your own domain back, and they profit. The former makes you want to do the latter, but if you don't buy the domain back, people trying to hit your page will still be giving them free hits.

They're like spammers in reverse.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Idiots. Anything to turn a profit>:P!!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I registered a new domain battyden.com All my page pointers to battyden.net are GONE and now point to battyden.com

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Yup. Same thing happened to alamedacreek.net

They're like spammers in reverse.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

But the appropriate response is STILL to hunt them down and apply that hammer in your icon to their elbows, forearms, wrists, and hands.