food.net!!

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wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...
 

Cristatus

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Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?
 

Meractik

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i was expecting it to take me to the food network tv station site but thats food.com sooo i dunno if that has always been there or what, i just thought it was funny
 
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Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

i really doubt it...its just cyber real estate really...
 

Wanescotting

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Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

I believe you are talking about patent law.
 

Squisher

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Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

I doubt the word "food" is proprietary and so would be open for sale.
 
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Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

I doubt the word "food" is proprietary and so would be open for sale.

if it is i bet mcdonalds could never get the patent :D
 

Wanescotting

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Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

I doubt the word "food" is proprietary and so would be open for sale.

if it is i bet mcdonalds could never get the patent :D


Huh? No I was saying that you cannot patent something, and wait for someone else to try and patent it, so that you can profit.
 
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Originally posted by: Wanescotting
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: Squisher
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
wtf...what a waste of a domain name...unless its just being squatted on for a while to be sold at a ridiculous price later on...


isn't cyber squatting illegal, if their aim is to gain money?

I doubt the word "food" is proprietary and so would be open for sale.

if it is i bet mcdonalds could never get the patent :D


Huh? No I was saying that you cannot patent something, and wait for someone else to try and patent it, so that you can profit.

how can they prove that you patented something just to...or wait, do you mean like if microsoft hapened to be idiots and didnt patent the name microsoft and you did it then tried to sell it to them?

well not like they dont happen to be idiots anyway ;)
 

tk149

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Actually, it's clearly a key for some kind of code. It's an easy URL to remember, and terrorists can access it from anywhere there's internet access.




/me <- too early to think clearly
 

johnjbruin

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Registrant:
Home SuperMarket Network (FOOD2-DOM)
13 Garden Place
Flemington, NJ 08822
US

Domain Name: FOOD.NET

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Webster, Clay (CW38) daemous@IO.COM
13 GARDEN PL
FLEMINGTON, NJ 08822-3336
US
908-237-0281 fax: 123 123 1234

Record expires on 13-Nov-2006.
Record created on 14-Nov-1994.
Database last updated on 16-Jan-2005 13:44:01 EST.

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