Christine McVie.com

Gailh · #1 08-05-2009, 01:11 PM

Has anyone noticed that this doesn't even send you to Universal any more?

I got "oops this link appears to be broken" when I looked at it for the first time in ages today

the domain name registration expired on 5 July but it is not available to purchase. Maybe Martin Wyatt is renewing it.

Gail

nicepace · #2 08-06-2009, 06:45 AM

Two URLs are taken -- ChristineMcVie.com and ChristineMcVie.info. A "whois" search on the former turns up only the name of an internet domain registrar ("NetNames"). On the latter, it turns up a name and address in Thailand. (Someone may have just picked up that domain name on spec ... thinking that they'd be able to resell it.) Neither domain name has a matching website.

The URL ChristineMcVie.net is available, if anyone wants to start a Christine fan site.

David · #3 08-06-2009, 04:54 PM

Maybe someone is typosquatting.

Gailh · #4 08-07-2009, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by David

Maybe someone is typosquatting.

Pardon my ignorance but what does that mean?

Gail

michelej1 · #5 08-07-2009, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gailh

Pardon my ignorance but what does that mean?

Gail

I'm sorry, but I don't get where the typo is here, David. Oh well, skies the limit.

Gail, that's a slang term for typing error in the US. Sometimes people buy domain names that are similar to those of big sites based on the likelihood that people will get the spelling wrong and stumble upon their domain by accident. So, you might buy Googel, because you know a few hundred people a day will come to that site, trying to get to Google.

Michele

nicepace · #6 08-07-2009, 02:15 PM

Also, sometimes people buy a domain name that they think someone will want and try to sell the rights to the domain to that person. That's called cybersquatting. (I've never heard of typosquatting ... but there are plenty of things I've never heard of.)

Gailh · #7 08-07-2009, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michelej1

I'm sorry, but I don't get where the typo is here, David. Oh well, skies the limit.

Gail, that's a slang term for typing error in the US. Sometimes people buy domain names that are similar to those of big sites based on the likelihood that people will get the spelling wrong and stumble upon their domain by accident. So, you might buy Googel, because you know a few hundred people a day will come to that site, trying to get to Google.

Michele

thank you.

Gail

SteveMacD · #8 08-07-2009, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michelej1

I'm sorry, but I don't get where the typo is here, David. Oh well, skies the limit.

Oh irony, how you mock me

(Should've been "Sky's The Limit." Damn you Perfect!)