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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 4:11 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #108

gravypod wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you can have a last name, use it as your trademark first, file all sorts of documents, get two domains, and then be put through the hoops by a forign company? That's crazy. This guy whould have been awarded damages. He was the first to use Nissan in America before the auto-company in 1984.

The story of nissan.com has always been a fascinating (and angering) case study since domains have been a thing and since the UDRP was put in place. Nissan (the car company) has been predatory and downright evil in their attempts to wrest nissan.com from Fred.

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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 4:12 PM UTC

libeclipse wrote: post #78

kppiskingpp wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She has enough money to make her happy and don't give a fuck. You get real. Get a life for christ sake. Asshole.

Alright there's clearly some differences of opinion here, but can we keep it civil and have a reasonable discussion?

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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by ubanholzer » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 4:41 PM UTC

speps wrote: post #17

david90 wrote: post #3

They really need to conserve bandwidth.

OVH has a 1MB plan with every domain which has unlimited bandwidth.

It's A 10 MB plan with 1 GB of traffic

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by SomeStupidPoint » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

jordigh wrote: post #112

ankimal wrote: post #105

Why not show ads and give the money to a charity or any other foundation of your choice?

It appears that they object to ads in principle ("if you feel like you need more ads in your life..."), which is something I respect immensely. I wish more people made a stand against advertising. It is psychological manipulation that we are guilted into accepting for the good of capitalism.

It's not even for the good of capitalism: it transforms the market in to a competition to weaponize psychology instead of creating value -- something most of us would argue is a market inefficiency of the modern system.

Advertisers will eventually strangle capitalism by increasing the irrationality of market actors until the basic mechanism of effective capital allocation breaks down.

Some would argue we're toeing or slightly across that line.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by NoahTheDuke » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 4:59 PM UTC

mrstone wrote: post #119

tyingq wrote: post #70

Also interesting in this space.... Microsoft vs a High School Kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft Google fails to win dispute for oogle.com: http://blog.dnattorney.com/2012/07/google-loses-ooglecom-dom... Julia Roberts gets control of her namesake domain, but Bruce Springsteen does not: http://www.ivanhoffman.com/bruce.html

Uhh... so don't even try going to oogle.com It just takes over your browser and makes it impossible to close without killing the PID.

In Chrome, I clicked the "Prevent page from creating additional pop-ups." checkbox, and then closed the page normally. What browser are you using that doesn't have such an option?

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by vocatus_gate » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

vlucas wrote: post #118

erdemozg wrote: post #9

I would be tempted to implement a custom SMTP server that accepts every email as if that target mailbox exists and collect them on a nosql db (just for curiosity and technical challenge) though I have no idea if I'd face any legal issues.

I made a service that does this ( https://disposeamail.com/ ), and I am constantly asking myself if it's worth it. The PostgreSQL database takes up over half the disk space on the VPS I run it on, and that's only after a few months. And of course it's almost all ultra low quality spam.

You're doing the Lord's work, son.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by crooked-v » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

I wonder how many people have sent angry emails to gail.com for not being gmail.com.

You may think I'm joking, but think back to that "some random blog post showed up as the first Google result for 'Facebook'" incident and you'll get what I mean.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by vmarsy » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

shilch wrote: post #114

binocarlos wrote: post #14

haha amazing - the 'm' key on my keyboard broke a few months ago - I'm fairly sure I account for at least 2% of the hits that month!

So you visited gail.co?

Only if the parent doesn't know about Ctrl+Enter and still waste time trying to type ".com"

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by PopsiclePete » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 6:00 PM UTC

Reminds me of http://www.nissan.com.

I get why it's appealing on a "little guy against big nameless corporation" level, but honestly, it's like an annoying kid who wants attention.

It's not like gail.com or nissan.com are providing any content that 99.999999999% would find remotely interesting or useful, I imagine most are just annoyed to accidentally stumble on some barely-coherent anti-capitalist rambling.

But I get it. It's cool to be a rebel.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by Veratyr » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 6:02 PM UTC

erelde wrote: post #54

dvirsky wrote: post #39

I once worked with a guy who had a domain that is the name of a major bank in my country (i.e. he owned {bank_name}.xyz and the bank's domain is {bank_name}-bank.xyz). Somehow he managed to hold on to it over the years. Anyway, he had a catch-all email account for the domain, an sometimes interesting stuff would arrive. One day he showed me an email he had just received from a major investment firm that read more or…

Smells like phishing to me :) An email trying to pass as a normal workplace email.

In most of the world, account numbers aren't at all sensitive, so I'm not sure what would be gained.