Shame!

williamfe · August 20th, 2009, 3:54 pm

Sorry, this is a side topic.For those who had been taught by or were friends of Prof. Salih Neftci, please note that www.neftci.com is now a casino web. I think this is really a shame. How much you need to keep web?The Neftci family/Neftci School/Neftci Friends, please restore the web.Please leave a message here to support this idea. Thank you very much.Cheers/WilliamI was one of his students in Hong Kong.

Traden4Alpha · August 20th, 2009, 4:25 pm

This is a common problem. If you let a domain registration lapse, anyone can buy it. An entire class of opportunistic internet operators lay in wait for things like this.Short of a legal suit on trademark grounds, there's very little that can be done.

DavidJN · August 20th, 2009, 6:53 pm

Traden4Alpha writes: "This is a common problem. If you let a domain registration lapse, anyone can buy it. An entire class of opportunistic internet operators lay in wait for things like this. Short of a legal suit on trademark grounds, there's very little that can be done."Indeed, some hackers do not even wait for domains to expire. A film maker friend of mine had her website hacked into and anyone who ordered her DvDs ended up unwittingly sending $'s to persons unknown for absolutely nothing in return.

Traden4Alpha · August 20th, 2009, 7:59 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: DavidJNIndeed, some hackers do not even wait for domains to expire. A film maker friend of mine had her website hacked into and anyone who ordered her DvDs ended up unwittingly sending $'s to persons unknown for absolutely nothing in return.Now that really is a shame (and highly illegal, too)!Unfortunately, buying a lapsed domain name is 100% legal even if it is morally stinky.

williamfe · August 21st, 2009, 1:18 pm

Hi,Yes, it is legal, but I think there is some more thing over this bottom line and it is worth doing anyway.Imagine a famous school like MIT, who trained you and let you know life-long friends, forgot to pay for the domain. Suddenly, www.mit.edu changed to be a casino website. How will the graduates think?Will

Traden4Alpha · August 21st, 2009, 1:55 pm

mit.edu expires in less than a year! I'm sure some online casinos are waiting to buy it as we speak. Of course, if such a lapse occurred, MIT would employ some reassuringly expensive lawyers to legally regain control of the domain.For a big company, a lapse really should never occur because one can buy registration for 10, 20, even 100 year terms

mirage007 · September 23rd, 2009, 8:28 pm

Aren't .edu domains special in some way? i was under the impression that not everyone can just register a domain with that TLD, besides, another even more pressing problem is that we are running out of IP addresses...http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3605501