Right now, the domain 68kmla.com has been taken using a possesion program (where you pay a search fee to locate names that will expire soon and grab them before anyone can) and is now a search portal for mac things.

Go ahead and type www.68kmla.com.

We need your help to e-mail these people who own the domain to make them face what they have done to our community. The contact information is below. I believe if they get enough e-mails about thier underhanded technique to take the domain, and then try and sell it off at a high price is pathetic. Let's show them we will not be silent.

Registration Service Provided By: 24hournames.com NV
Contact: jason@onebigworld.co.uk
Visit: http://www.24hourname.com

Domain name: 68KMLA.COM

Registrant Contact:
24hournames.com NV
Domain Admin (jason@onebigworld.co.uk)
+32.57409120
FAX: +32.57409121
25a Westvleterenstraat
Vleteren, West Flanders 8640
BE

Administrative Contact:
24hournames.com NV
Domain Admin (jason@onebigworld.co.uk)
+32.57409120
FAX: +32.57409121
25a Westvleterenstraat
Vleteren, West Flanders 8640
BE

Billing Contact:
24hournames.com NV
Domain Admin (jason@onebigworld.co.uk)
+32.57409120
FAX: +32.57409121
25a Westvleterenstraat
Vleteren, West Flanders 8640
BE

Technical Contact:
24hournames.com NV
Domain Admin (jason@onebigworld.co.uk)
+32.57409120
FAX: +32.57409121
25a Westvleterenstraat
Vleteren, West Flanders 8640
BE

Status: ACTIVE
Note: To help prevent fraudulent or erroneous
transfers, we encourage registrants to place their domains on "lock"
status with their current registrar.

DNS servers:

Created: Mon Jun 02 2003 00:00:00
Expires: Wed Jun 02 2004 00:00:00

G4From128k

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Give me some ideas and i'll fire off an email to this guy.

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foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh)
http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
da band: http://www.burningabbey.com

wtf does 68kmla means to him ?
he just want to get more money selling it back to you.

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Aside from answering to the principles involved, I'm wondering: why NOT let him have the address? Then he is out his squatters fee and gets to keep a funky address that likely only means only one thing - this group. I mean, do we all have that much spare time/money? We could get www. l i b e r a t e 6 8 k .com, www. 6 8 0 0 0 m l a .com, etc. The squatter gets goose egg, not even emails (our emails could get into the grey areas of spam). I'm not affiliated to the squatter, just practical.

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<<<john>>>

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Aside from answering to the principles involved, I'm wondering: why NOT let him have the address? Then he is out his squatters fee and gets to keep a funky address that likely only means only one thing - this group. I mean, do we all have that much spare time/money? We could get www. l i b e r a t e 6 8 k .com, www. 6 8 0 0 0 m l a .com, etc. The squatter gets goose egg, not even emails (our emails could get into the grey areas of spam). I'm not affiliated to the squatter, just practical.

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SE/30 and system 6.0.8 Now we're talking POWER!

I hate these fokking cybersquatters. it should be made illegal to fokking cybersquat

AAAAAAARGH BASTARDS FROM HELL!!!!!

CCC
sorry, had to vent some steam on cybersquatting.

if we have a top-level domain (well, a sort-of top level domain) name, do we need to go on and register a .com or .org anyway? if all its going to do is redirect, do we need to pay when we already have a free redirect url?

.la is the top domain for Lao People's Democratic Republic...

OK, I don't think that'll happen anyday soon. However, for a cool and minimalistic web site, check www.gov.la out!

Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA
Liberated:
LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410
Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's
Hotline mirror server:
68k.dyndns.org

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heh, someone squatted local government-related website last year, and instead of being a commerce site, it was an "adult" site. Everyone was upset about it, but the government couldn't do a thing about it.

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"**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
Warrior maclover5
68kMLA
Official 68kMLA Detective
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1

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BTW, i just checked http://www.dot.tk and somebody (i dont know who) has registered http://www.68kmla.tk and it redirects to the forums... so that works temporarily...

if we have a top-level domain (well, a sort-of top level domain) name, do we need to go on and register a .com or .org anyway? if all its going to do is redirect, do we need to pay when we already have a free redirect url?

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Leutennant SCCHICAGO

Just that associating the term 'dot net' to 68k seems so..... weird.

say it a few times, see if your head spins a tad to the right:
www. 68k m l a .net
www. 68k m l a .net
www. 68k m l a .net
www. 68k m l a .net
...

hmm.

www.forums.68kmla.net would go to the forum
(we'd have a newly redesigned website that has "stuff") (maybe)(I'd be willing to have a blast at making one)

www.cory5412.68kmla.net
this will go to my profile, or a website of my choice, OR my own website....
it makes sense to set up a system where it goes by default to the profile...

maclover5@68kmla.net
someone suggested finding an eMail server and getting eMail addresses for the moderators (and/or outstanding members in such other ways...)

www.macintoshes.68kmla.net
this might have a list and descriptions of macs we've liberated and/or had in the past...

www.links.68kmla.net
who DOSN'T have a links section? we can honor such good mac and 68k related sites like retailers and other communities by linking to them... although, we'll not have NPR after us (if you watch TechTV and remember LOTS you know what I mean) by linking to people... we'll ask first

www.membermap.68kmla.net
do we still have the membermap?

tghat's just a few (what I think) are good ideas :)

I already have a mail server ready to accept any mail we need to set up, and once I get the time DNS server will be running as well.

~The Penguin

I discussed it with ML5 and he agrees that it's a good idea... and that ti's possible... only thing needed would be an interface... and with the imposing upgrade to PHPbb2 we'll have a nice reason to do something like this... and MySQL should be able to handle it...

~The Penguin

~The Penguin

subdomains are cool

I think it's time you got a real website or someone got you one or else we might have to dismember you. ;-)

What a prick that would squat like that though.. I hate people like that, ruining the good parts of the net for no good reason. I sent my email.

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