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1GB of shareware and public domain software from 1993
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Well unfortunately, coius server is now on the malware blacklist so i cant get it from there. lol.
I lost the name after shutting down my forum and then someone did a take over of the URL. I was unable to get it back, but somehow a transfer of the URL was basically stolen from me and I didn't know it.
btw, there has been recent incidents where people from countries are initiating un-authorized take-overs of URLs and nothing can be done. Godaddy at the time told me that when it happened, they couldn't stop it. Within a week I lost it and contacted godaddy since they were still charging me for the domain name. I then called visa and reported that godaddy was illegally charging my credit card. Go daddy contacted me telling me they weren't happy how i Reported to visa and demanded I pay up for lost money.
I basically told godaddy to go to hell since they didn't stop the domain transfer. After that I gave up.
I no longer have those files as when the domain went down, my files were instantly deleted by godaddy.
Godaddy can roll in the grave for all I care. After all that, now they have been backing the SOPA/PIPA act and a lot of people left.
I also was having service outages. On top of that, I have been getting spam from someone registering another URL similar to mine and telling me if I wanted it, I would have to pay (I kid you not) $90,000
Google will not filter the spam no matter how many times I mark it in gmail. I can't keep the emails from people registering the name from coming to me wanting me to bid on it. Frankly, I don't care as I never registered it for a purpose. Too much $$/yr
btw, there has been recent incidents where people from countries are initiating un-authorized take-overs of URLs and nothing can be done. Godaddy at the time told me that when it happened, they couldn't stop it. Within a week I lost it and contacted godaddy since they were still charging me for the domain name. I then called visa and reported that godaddy was illegally charging my credit card. Go daddy contacted me telling me they weren't happy how i Reported to visa and demanded I pay up for lost money.
I basically told godaddy to go to hell since they didn't stop the domain transfer. After that I gave up.
I no longer have those files as when the domain went down, my files were instantly deleted by godaddy.
Godaddy can roll in the grave for all I care. After all that, now they have been backing the SOPA/PIPA act and a lot of people left.
I also was having service outages. On top of that, I have been getting spam from someone registering another URL similar to mine and telling me if I wanted it, I would have to pay (I kid you not) $90,000
Google will not filter the spam no matter how many times I mark it in gmail. I can't keep the emails from people registering the name from coming to me wanting me to bid on it. Frankly, I don't care as I never registered it for a purpose. Too much $$/yr
My favorite is my personal domain. I originally registered it through the "Yahoo Personal Address" service, and the email was hosted through Yahoo. Later, they retired the "Personal Address" service, and changed to two separate services - one for businesses, one for personal use. My account got grandfathered in badly - I was apparently in neither the new small business nor the new personal service. I later attempted to change something about the domain registration (I wanted to host a website that wasn't on GeoCities,) and nobody could help me. The small business side theoretically would have allowed me to, but they swore I was a personal account. The personal account side said they had no record of me. After much back-and-forth, I registered a different domain, and figured I'd just transfer the Yahoo domain. Nope, couldn't transfer the Yahoo domain because I couldn't get the transfer key. I figured I'd wait for it to expire and snap it up.
Nope, a squatter got it before me.
The domain was my last name dot org. (The dot com was held by a distant cousin, who ironically later lost THAT to a squatter himself.) My last name is not common (in the entire world, there are maybe three-four dozen of us.) It is not famous. It is not "trendy" or "interesting" in any way. There is no comprehensible reason for a domain squatter to want it.
When I followed the "make an offer on this domain" nonsense, I was forced to enter a minimum offer of €200. Fine, whatever. I entered my €200 offer. It was rejected, with a counter-offer of €10,000 (obviously automated.) BS. The automated system wouldn't let me "counter-counter" offer for less than €1000. Not going to do that (they claim it would be a binding offer.) I have a recurring alarm set every year for its supposed expiration. They have never let go of it, for over 7 years now. Every year, I check to see if it's the same squatter. It still is. I've attempted to find a way to contact a live human at the squatter to let them know that they've wasted their domain registration money every year - and that I'd offer them double what they've spent on registering it every year - but I've never been able to find a way to contact a live human.
And, now that I've thought about it, I decided to check again (the expiration has always been June) and the dot com my distant cousin lost is still held by the squatter, but apparently that same cousin managed to get the dot org! (Hrm, did I forget to check last year? Now that I think about it, I may have...)
Nope, a squatter got it before me.
The domain was my last name dot org. (The dot com was held by a distant cousin, who ironically later lost THAT to a squatter himself.) My last name is not common (in the entire world, there are maybe three-four dozen of us.) It is not famous. It is not "trendy" or "interesting" in any way. There is no comprehensible reason for a domain squatter to want it.
When I followed the "make an offer on this domain" nonsense, I was forced to enter a minimum offer of €200. Fine, whatever. I entered my €200 offer. It was rejected, with a counter-offer of €10,000 (obviously automated.) BS. The automated system wouldn't let me "counter-counter" offer for less than €1000. Not going to do that (they claim it would be a binding offer.) I have a recurring alarm set every year for its supposed expiration. They have never let go of it, for over 7 years now. Every year, I check to see if it's the same squatter. It still is. I've attempted to find a way to contact a live human at the squatter to let them know that they've wasted their domain registration money every year - and that I'd offer them double what they've spent on registering it every year - but I've never been able to find a way to contact a live human.
And, now that I've thought about it, I decided to check again (the expiration has always been June) and the dot com my distant cousin lost is still held by the squatter, but apparently that same cousin managed to get the dot org! (Hrm, did I forget to check last year? Now that I think about it, I may have...)
If coius has the files still, there's MegaUpload/RS/FS/etc servers that'll gladly host it...
I'm mainly curious what's in it -- the title says 1GB, so that must contain some good stuff. (And bad -- trojans + viruses roamed the Mac world back then)
I only have a 1.0Mbps connection here, so I thought I'd ask before I downloaded.
I'm mainly curious what's in it -- the title says 1GB, so that must contain some good stuff. (And bad -- trojans + viruses roamed the Mac world back then)
I only have a 1.0Mbps connection here, so I thought I'd ask before I downloaded.
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=13346
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=13347
These have been at Mac GUI Vault since it opened on 09 09 09.
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=13347
These have been at Mac GUI Vault since it opened on 09 09 09.
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