Unsubstanciated Rumor?

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

What's all this about Bisexual.com's domain thingie being sold? Or does that even pertain to this site? I'm hoping not. I love this site and would be horribly sad if something happened to it...
Hey Drew? A little clarification here, please?
Cat :(

[shameless agitator]

I haven't heard anything like that but then people like to think I'm a mushroom so that my not mean anything.

[csrakate]

Actually I heard a rumor of this sort several months back and was told it had nothing to do with this site. Someone had seen the following and it started some speculation that this site might shut down:
http://valleywag.com/340283/bisexualcom-goes-on-sale-in-10-days

But then again, who knows?? Sure would be nice to know, however and like you, Cat, I appeal to Drew to settle the rumor once and for all.

Hugs,
Kate

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

This is what I found when I typed in: www.Bisexual.com......

Moniker, a domain-name auction house, is selling bisexual.com and a long list of other thoroughly NSFW domain names in an auction January 13-15. The domain-name business is "extremely dirty," Michael Arrington has said — and he should know, since he spent a fair amount of time in it before launching TechCrunch. I'm not sure if this is quite what he meant, but it's clear that a fair amount of the money in the domain-name business goes for porn websites. SheMale.com was recently sold for $525,000. And Moniker itself was recently purchased by a competitor, Oversee, for an undisclosed sum.
Dont know if it has anything to do with us or not..that's why I was asking.. ;}
Cat

[csrakate]

GMTA Cat...looks like we were posting at the same time!! But like I said, this is news dated from January and I must confess to not knowing enough about the business to know what it means in relation to the active running of the site.

Kate

[12voltman59]

As I reacall from that time---when you click on the bisexual.com name---it shows that it is owned and not available-I think they just were trying to sell names that they may have thought weren't being used--so I don't think that it is pertinent to us here.

[**Peg**]

my understanding is the following:

say I buy www.sexisus.com and I don't pay my renewal fees, or I default on my responsibilities, or in any other way do not abide by the rules and regs of the Webhosting company, then the site NAME can be sold out from under me.... I "think" that's how it goes.

Peg

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Thanks Loves. I wasnt sure, thats why I asked. :}
A nosey mind is a shame to waste..lol
Cat

[allbimyself]

my understanding is the following:

say I buy www.sexisus.com and I don't pay my renewal fees, or I default on my responsibilities, or in any other way do not abide by the rules and regs of the Webhosting company, then the site NAME can be sold out from under me.... I "think" that's how it goes.

Peg

The web hosting company has NO say whatsoever in the matter (unless you screwed up the registration such as get a "free" registration from them which really lets them claim your domain name if they want it).

The are only three ways you can lose a domain name:

1) Let it expire. You have 30 or 45 days grace (pretty sure it's 45 days) to renew after it expires. After that, anyone can grab it.

2) Someone has a legal claim to the domain name. For example: if you register a domain name that is a trademark of a company or has in some other way a claim to that name, you can bet they'll file a claim with ICANN to get the domain away from you. Unless you have a standing claim to that name, too, ICANN will likely take it away.

3) A very unlikely event is the registrar (the actual company that registers the domain for the owner with ICANN) COULD block your nameservers if they receive complaints about spamming. You don't actually lose the domain but it stops functioning. Fortunately, this is rarely done anymore as some registrars have been successfully forced in court to reimburse customers who were erroneously blocked in this manner. The registrar is not really in a position to judge such things and has no liability if a domain owner engages in unlawful activity. The normal course of action is for the upstream provider to turn off the customer's access as they ARE exposed to liability if one of their customers engages in unlawful activity while utilizing their service and it can be proven that the provider had knowledge.

You CAN transfer a domain to another party at anytime that you are the legal owner of that domain UNLESS a claim has been filed with ICANN per number 2 above. The owner of bisexual.com COULD sell or give the rights to the domain to anyone at anytime.

[allbimyself]

BTW, I just checked out the original site that kate linked to. That was completely bogus. If you check the list of domain names actually auctioned, bisexual.com was not in it, nor were many others that were placed on "entry" pages (An "entry" page is a page designed to garner a high search engine ranking for a specific term.) The auctioneer was attempting to drive more interest by listing domain names that were more likely to capture the attention of potential buyers.

[Not2str8]

There is a website anyone can go to for the purpose of determining whether a particular domain name is available for sale. The site is www.godaddy.com. I just went there and entered the domain name www.bisexual.com, and received the following response..."BISEXUAL.COM IS ALREADY TAKEN". By clicking on the "click here for info" link, I discovered details such as the fact that this domain name is registered until January of 2011. It was last updated in January of 2007, having originally been registered in January of 1996.
In short, I believe there is nothing to the rumor the original poster referenced. The aforementioned registration dates prove it.
By the way, you can check any domain name for free at that site. It even suggests alternatives, if the name you pick isn't available. If nothing else, it's interesting to play with.

[allbimyself]

There is a website anyone can go to for the purpose of determining whether a particular domain name is available for sale. The site is www.godaddy.com. I just went there and entered the domain name www.bisexual.com, and received the following response..."BISEXUAL.COM IS ALREADY TAKEN". By clicking on the "click here for info" link, I discovered details such as the fact that this domain name is registered until January of 2011. It was last updated in January of 2007, having originally been registered in January of 1996.
In short, I believe there is nothing to the rumor the original poster referenced. The aforementioned registration dates prove it.
By the way, you can check any domain name for free at that site. It even suggests alternatives, if the name you pick isn't available. If nothing else, it's interesting to play with.
Not2str8,

That will only tell you whether or not a domain is registered. The registrant can transfer registration (ownership) to another entity at any time for whatever terms the two agree on. Therefore it IS entirely possible that the registered owner of bisexual.com could sell it.

That said, it doesn't mean that the original rumor is true.

[Doggie_Wood]

my understanding is the following:

say I buy www.sexisus.com and I don't pay my renewal fees, or I default on my responsibilities, or in any other way do not abide by the rules and regs of the Webhosting company, then the site NAME can be sold out from under me.... I "think" that's how it goes.

Peg

Whoever actually "owns" the domain name is the owner for however many years the name was originally purchased. Period. And it can be sold.

Hosting the domain name is totally different. If the hosting fees, rules and terms of contractual agreement are not met or abided by, then the hosting company can stop hosting said domain name or park the name.

FYI

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