pouët.net

I tried to enter the Aardbei site and got this. It was a bit funny..

http://optimus.demoscene.gr/pouet/aardbei_eh.png

What happens with those domains anyways?!? Could that happen to my own site oneday? ;P

you need to register domains to have a cool name on the internet optimus, they get registered for a certain amount of time. after that time you need to renew it (pay some more), if you forget to renew it there are people on this world who make a living out of buying recently unrenewed domains (they stock up, get discount prices for registering 500 in a hit) the idea is that ppl will still go to that site (it has been advertised) so if they run a standard "portal-style" site there they'll get hits.. and if people click their banners they'll get cents. lots of cents a site, lots of sites hits a day, lots of days in the month. enough money to be worth the bother.

so, yes, it can happen to you too, if you ever register a domain on the internet.

the people who re-register these sites usually offer them back to the original owner for higher cost then it would have costed to renew it yourself when you had the chance.
so, dont forget to add extorsion to namestealing. :)
welcome to the free and fair world of the internet! \o/

ps : did you overlook the "fuck off you sick capitalist fucks demos are not bought and sold"? looks like a parody to me unless i'm missing something

wont you be happy when you registered your site with a login and password you dont remember anymore and using an old email you cant even access anymore.
yes, i sure was
3 years of advertising a domain only to have to change it to something else over night...
it was fun!!

parapete: discussing capitalism is as useful as killing cockroaches. no matter how good weapons you got, you will always come out short of a comeback. no use wasting time with on a periodic basis imho.

google may be giving these guys money, but atleast it helped me find known links that i needed to ask webmasters to change. it was also much fun having to ask someone to waste some of their time fixing things that we'rent their fault.. im sure they had fun too!!

<3 <3 economy, excuses for beeing a horrible person <3 <3

haha funny :)

actually we all paid for the domain, but still snq just sold it or something.

snq didn't renew the domain ages ago. yawn :)

rob: wasn't this the moment where you all chipped in for the renewal, and it never happened?

a comment from shifter, yawn :)

hey, fuck you too, birthday boy ;)

shifter: yes, ile chipped in for me and himself, but somehow snq never got the money

ps: better get skene.org and szene.org now. ;)

And rather than saving the Aardbei domain, he fled into the wwedish wilderness?

parapete: Yes, my surprise was especially about that text! :)