purchasing a name

I'm thinking of trying to buy a domain name from a squatter.  Can  

anyone give me tips on how to go about this a make it successful and
economical as possible? TIA

						Peter

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On 15 Jul 2009, at 13:03, Peter Saint James wrote:

I’m thinking of trying to buy a domain name from a squatter.

Perhaps you could say what this means?

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On 15 July2009, at 8:18 AM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

I’m thinking of trying to buy a domain name from a squatter.

Perhaps you could say what this means?

I'm sorry.  I thought everyone was aware of this phenomenon.
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On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:25, Peter Saint James wrote:

I’m sorry. I thought everyone was aware of this phenomenon.

I’m aware of what cybersquatting is, but it beats me why you’d want
anything to do with it.

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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.

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On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:45, waltd wrote:

I think he means that someone has squatted on his name, and he wants
it back.

Aha. Thanks Walt, and sorry Peter; I didn’t get that from your
original post.

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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.


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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

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Back when I worked for Alsoft, we had to go with alsoftinc.com,


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Back when I worked for Alsoft…

Joe! I loved Pagemaker. That was a great product. Oh for the simplicity of the past…


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On 15 Jul 2009, at 16:35, chuckamuck wrote:

Joe! I loved Pagemaker. That was a great product. Oh for the
simplicity of the past…

Disk Warrior is pretty good too … :wink:

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On 15 Jul 2009, 3:35 pm, chuckamuck wrote:

Back when I worked for Alsoft…

Joe! I loved Pagemaker. That was a great product. Oh for the simplicity of the past…

I think you’re thinking of Aldus. Aldus - Wikipedia

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I think you’re thinking of Aldus. Aldus - Wikipedia

DOH!

Too funny…and you’re right, DiskWarrior is an excellent product.

Now where did I put that Geritol?..


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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.

http://www.poochpaddock.com/gallery.html

Thank you so much!
Barbara Messina


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On 15 Jul 2009, at 16:56, chuckamuck wrote:

DOH!

Too funny…and you’re right, DiskWarrior is an excellent product.

Now where did I put that Geritol?..

Split the difference and call it PageWarrior :slight_smile:

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PageWarrior! I love it! :wink:

Aldus was kinda before I got started using Macs, but looking back at PageMaker and Freehand, I kinda wished they were still around for a long time.


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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.

However, PageMaker lives on, just about, if you’re that
interested… http://www.adobe.com/products/pagemaker/?promoid=DNRNS
Mind you, while it is still sold, development has ceased.

I had a boxed copy of PageMaker 1.0 once, but it disappeared in a
labs clearout. :frowning:

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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)

David

On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:19, Keith Martin wrote:

FreeHand was around until earlier this decade.


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On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:44 AM, David Owen wrote:

And it still alive (so far) on my machine here.

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 :slight_smile:


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On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:59, Mike B wrote:

Just can’t seem to get into Illustrator myself :slight_smile:

I call it Frustrator for a reason.

I find it hard to do the simplest things with Illustrator. I find I
drop back to FreeHand just to get something done.

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Welcome to Freehand users anonymous - My name is David and I’m still
a Freehand user :wink:

On 16 Jul 2009, at 10:15, Heather Kavanagh wrote:

I find it hard to do the simplest things with Illustrator. I find I
drop back to FreeHand just to get something done.


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