I think he means that someone has squatted on his name, and he wants it back. I’ve had the same thing happen to me as well, my own name.com was taken years ago, and I’ve never had the ready cash around to pay off the buzzards.
I don’t know if there is any way short of paying them to undo the damage, anything legal would require a lot more work and legal fees than it would ever be worth, unless your last name is Pepsi or something like that.
Back when I worked for Alsoft, we had to go with alsoftinc.com, because someone else had taken alsoft.com. They weren’t a squatter, though, they were a business that had started after Alsoft did (1984 vs. sometime in the 90s). Alsoft was able to show they had a right to the name.
IIRC, we worked it out with Network Solutions (they were the only ones at the time), and all we had to do was wait out until the other company’s registration ran out and it was turned over to us.
For some reason, a lot of software companies want to call themselves Alsoft. We did a search back then and turned up a bunch. Why they never searched first was beyond us.
We had a similar situation with printlineadvertising.com (our
is .co.uk) A printing company in the US had the .com and we had to
wait some 6 years or so before the company finally stopped trading to
pick it up.
When we first registered it, we went with printlineadvertising.co.uk
simply because that was the businesses name. However If I had my time
over again, it would have been printing.com or a name of what services
we actually do as its some much easier to be found SEO wise.
Isn’t hindsight is a wonderful thing.
David
On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:57, Joe Muscara wrote:
Back when I worked for Alsoft, we had to go with alsoftinc.com,
I was hoping someone could help me with a gallery I would like to build. I
don’t know what this is called, or where I would be able to find directions,
but it is on this page, which is a site built by Freeway.
Sometime around 15/7/09 (at 21:57 -0400) Joe Muscara said:
looking back at PageMaker and Freehand, I kinda wished they were
still around for a long time.
FreeHand was around until earlier this decade. It didn’t get the
development resources it needed in the final years of Macromedia, and
of course it was never going to win once the developers of its arch
rival, Adobe Illustrator, bought the company.
And it still alive (so far) on my machine here. I still find Freehand
is the quickest way to mock-up multi page web site visuals in a single
file to quickly export as PDF.
I wonder when it will break and die for good? (Although I notice auto
font activation seemed to have already stopped on 10.5.7)
Yes and here also, gosh I will miss it when it eventually breaks…
although that might be a long time yet.
Just can’t seem to get into Illustrator myself