Hi just need some thought please.
Someone has recently sold a business but the previous owner didn't sell the businesses web domain name with it. Hes now willing to sell but wants a stupid amount of money also he hasn't edited the content to show he's no longer the owner and the site is out of date.
I can register a new site for them but does the content on thr old site need to be taken down by the previous owner? The content showing is out of date and still relating to the business as if it was current and valid
The domain is up for renewal in a few months while nothing can stop him from renewing is there any advice I can give the new owner.
Any advice would be good.
I would think that if they sold the business, and all rights to it, then running that website still claiming to be said business would be fraud. Granted I am not a lawyer but you should have every legal right to create a new website for the business for the new owner.
Thanks for the reply. Creating a new site isn't a problem at all nor is registering a similar domain name. The problem is the old website and its content. It'll take time for a new site and customers to become familiar with the new address but those who go on the old address still get out of date info. I've asked the manager of the new owners to find out if there is anyone within the business legally trained. Its frustrating as the old owner sold the business I don't know how he managed to keep hold of the site.
StormMcCloud said:
running that website still claiming to be said business would be fraud.
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I don't think he's running it as he hasn't updated anything since it was sold. If he does update it then it would be wrong. But he's just stopped maintaining it rather then take it down
Quick question, is the name of the business trademarked? If so the past owner legally would have to give up control of that domain name.
That is what I gather from browsing through this anyway.
I don't think it will be trademarked but I'll ask the new owners to find out. It might be the right lines to go down.
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Also check out this website. They seem to have some good info on the subject as well.
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Hi All!
Over the past few months pocketpcaddict.com has been overrun by driver-ant-spam, and the admins seem to have gone dark.
Does anyone have *any* other personal contact info for the site admins other than what's publicly available?
I follow only one forum there and get the daily summary email. One worst day there were *900* posts to that *one* forum. Other days that week there were 200, 400, 600, whatever-hundred. (The past week or so has been a lot lighter; maybe the spammers figured out that readers of a pocketpc site aren't really looking for a pharmacy. LOL!)
About a month ago I wrote to the sites email addresses, contact form page on the site, and domain registrars 'proxy'/private email addresses, about three times each, offering time to help clean things up. No response/reply, and no errors/bounces either.
Over the past week or so I spoke with domain registrar, site host, ICANN, and even google and at&t as they have vested interests. The upshot was that because of the *private* domain registration there is absolutely *no* way to directly contact the admins. (Which I can understand an accept at face value, and though there really oughta be some sort of 'panic button' contact method but that's a totally unrelated topic.)
Digging further I fould a couple of 'higher end' site -participants-, but they had no info about contact with the current admins.
Worst case, I actually half-thought about cracking the site with force and just getting the job done. I'm the kinda person who doesn't sit around and wait for ppl to do things I just *do* it. LOL! Buuuut I decided against that because I could get in faaaar more trouble that it's worth. I also have no experience with anything like that and don't have the time or interest to muck around with it.
So again the question is does anyone have *any* other personal contact info about the pocketpcaddict.com site admins?
Thanks much. Have a day!
Jim
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after being with co.cc for a few months for my website theyve decided to change there T&C's so that after a year i have to pay
this would be doable however, my website receives no ££$$$ from donations yet and thereofre there is no money to buy it, and also if i was to buy a domain name it would be .com
my question is can anyone recoment a free doamin name service the supports url forwarding, a google apps email inclsion (CNAME) and wont flood my site with pop ups
NB
This is not a request for money or finacial help. its not spam as im not advertising or offering a service
jayjay8585 said:
after being with co.cc for a few months for my website theyve decided to change there T&C's so that after a year i have to pay
this would be doable however, my website receives no ££$$$ from donations yet and thereofre there is no money to buy it, and also if i was to buy a domain name it would be .com
my question is can anyone recoment a free doamin name service the supports url forwarding, a google apps email inclsion (CNAME) and wont flood my site with pop ups
NB
This is not a request for money or finacial help. its not spam as im not advertising or offering a service
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Thanks for the aclaration
well its getting harder and harder to see plianly as far as spam goes
have you thought about hosting it yourself and whoreing out space for google adsense?
yes theres still finacial issues
im waiting to get a job to do this kind of things
may consider selling omnia to get vbulletin
my mate has a server for me
and then i can do the domain
jayjay8585 said:
yes theres still finacial issues
im waiting to get a job to do this kind of things
may consider selling omnia to get vbulletin
my mate has a server for me
and then i can do the domain
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what are the pricing rates of vbulletin? How many members do you have on your site and how many do you predict would be there by the start of 2010? I'd be willing to assist you in financially if we could break-even by 2011 via donations or whatever.
well the forum is still young we have 303 or so members
i predict to have to have 400 to 450
as for donations ive not recieved anything since it began
vbulletin is roughly
160 $
well if you click on my website in my sig you can see my forum that i host. it is called simple machines forum. i am sure that vbulletin is much better but simple machines forum is free.
well ive got a free foum it invision power board 1.4 final
it just the domain i need
You should really slow down and wait to get some more members. Once your somewhere in the 10,000 then you should get a VB.
well ppl thx for omments but i have solution
have domain and working on vbull thanks to quicksite
also forumer doesnt let me have db so i already hv 300+ members to add manually so 10000 isnt practical
jayjay, you you really check out IPB Boards too, there not as expensive as a vbulletin, That is, if you buy a REGISTERED board. But other than that, good luck.
im using the free version of IPB from forumer.com at the moment
but ive finally got iy sorted im going back to phpbb since im fimiliar with it and then i can keep cabs on the websirte natively
with the fre version iof IPB will not do
Please read the following bad news.
https://www.facebook.com/CyanogenMod/posts/10152367978770425
We at CM are very trusting of our members, showed by both respect and permissions granted to those people we consider part of the team. Last month, this trust was violated in a substantial way. In the spirit of openness, here is what happened.
CM’s history is well established, with Cyanogen releasing his original ROM for the G1 on XDA forums. Back then, there was no “CyanogenMod” in terms of the organization and structure that we have today. The builds were hosted on Steve’s personal machine, the original server was a donation of spare kit from Phaseburn. And due to the small size (and lack of funds), the CyanogenMod.com domain was bought by a third-party back in 2009 and donated to CM, when CM was a much smaller project and had no online presence besides XDA.
Fast-forward 3 years, we have 3 extremely powerful build boxes donated by the community and an army of developers, contributors, and supported devices. But, a little over a week ago, things took a bad turn. The person owning the CyanogenMod.com domain was caught impersonating Steve to make referral deals with community sites. When confronted and asked to hand over control of the domain amicably, he decided he wanted 10K USD for it, which we won't (and can't) pay.
We contacted those he had established deals with, only to discover that the person tasked with maintaining our web presence was setting up deals under the CM name, and impersonating Cyanogen himself. Plenty of satisfying evidence was provided by those sites / entities to make us certain that this wasn't a misunderstanding or one-time thing.
This leaves us at a critical impasse. Being trusted with CM’s web presence means this member had control over the CM social network accounts (Twitter/FB) as well as domains (cyanogenmod.com). We have changed ownership of the social media accounts. When asked again to make the transition nicely, he responded with the following
“Hi, so you think by removing all my access across the infrastructure was going to be a great idea? We had a chat yesterday, you've decided to end this bitter. How about I just change the DNS entries right now. CM will practically go down.”
Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too.
We have begun the dispute process with ICANN to reclaim our domain. In the meantime, please utilize CyanogenMod.org and all applicable subdomains.
As mentioned, this member also managed our Google Apps for Business account, and therefore our @cyanogenmod.com email addresses. These addresses should be considered discontinued until further notice. We will be contacting the Google team to reclaim rights to the apps account. In the meantime, please contact [email protected] for any devrel questions or other issues. A mailserver is being established to transition devrel and other support email addresses. We will provide those when they are finalized, and they will utilize the .org domain.
We don’t like how this played out, and we are deeply hurt. Likewise, we are deeply saddened at the confusion this may have caused the community. We will continue to be open about the what, when, how, but unfortunately, we may never know the ‘why’ - though greed comes to mind. The team itself has not made a profit off of CM and that is not our goal. But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension. We will update you all as things progress.
Know that we are pursuing every available legal means to regain control over our domain.
Please note, all donations that were given directly to Cyanogen (aka [email protected]) did indeed reach their destination and are not affected.
If you are a company out there that believes they have also entered into agreements with “CM” by this person impersonating Steve, please contact [email protected]. We’d like to get a handle on how widespread this was before we file charges.
-The CyanogenMod Team
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that really sucks! sad news about people acting like assholes, again.
Sad, how one greedy person can destroy a brand, lets hope cm team make a full recovery.
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http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/domain-situation-has-been-resolved
things move quick...
(ciwrl wrote this, I’m just posting on his behalf so this is resolved)
So earlier today we put up a post on what prompted us to transition to our new CyanogenMod.org domain. We refrained from identifying the ex-member out of respect for his privacy and career outside of CM. Suffice it to say you guys aren’t slouches, and figured it out on your own.
With that said, the ex-member in question contacted us and has agreed to hand over control of the CyanogenMod.com domain. This was done as amicably as these things can be, and CM did not pay the fee he requested.
We will still be using CyanogenMod.org as our primary domain, and the .com address will simply redirect to this new domain. Ironically enough, ‘.org’ is better than ‘.com’ as we are not a commercial entity, and is far more in line with how CyanogenMod is structured.
We received a common question, that we’d like to take a moment to answer. Some of you contacted us mentioning that you had previously donated to a different address. When the forum began, up until about 3 months ago, the forum utilized this other address as the mechanism for forum donations and establishment of the ‘Donator’ badge. Donations made to this address prior to three months ago were used for the CyanogenMod forum IPB licence and forum related costs and were not misappropriated.
On a side note, we have also gone through internal restructuring to make sure that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again. Nobody has control over everything, and there is no longer such a large single-point of failure. Our lessons have been learned.
We ask that you please not perform any vigilante actions, we do not condone any such thing; just let this fade.
We want to move on, get you the builds you expect from us, and not mess around with distractions.
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glad things worked out so quickly
hopefully this won't happen again, at least not so easily.
Hi,
I took the steps a day or so ago to try to coordinate the fractured and inconsistent information we are receiving from Google by making this site.
https://sites.google.com/site/nexus4cr
On it I am trying to provide accurate information based on registered complaints received and user comments from all threads here on XDA that appear to be consistent. There is also a page to help with calling them directly so they can recognise the questions that are most important.
The register is global in relation to the regions the Nexus 4 has been launched in.
Please register a complaint even if you have already received / cancelled your order but received poor service - it helps us in many ways.
Any questions, let me know. And we need more information from users in countries other than UK and US!
Thanks
Andy
Meh, said 1-2 weeks, and that's not up yet. So no, I won't be wasting their time and further delaying my phone because of stupid spreadsheets and trading standards threats.
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Meh, said 1-2 weeks, and that's not up yet. So no, I won't be wasting their time and further delaying my phone because of stupid spreadsheets and trading standards threats.
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Sorry you feel that way, 100's have already registered who have been waiting over a month when they were told 3-5 days, and have no idea what's going on with their money.
Just trying to be helpful, and maybe make life easier for everybody.
To be fair it probably got lost in Bedfords horrible Postal service.
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To be fair it probably got lost in Bedfords horrible Postal service.
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Ha! That could be entirely possible
already done bro ///
I'm also a disgruntled customer, but I'm reluctant to include my email address on that link
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I'm also a disgruntled customer, but I'm reluctant to include my email address on that link
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You do not need to enter information you don't want to provide with regards to personal information. There are a few questions relating to the service you experienced that are a requirement in order to get the message across, other than that it's up to you.
Does any of you guys know any company's willing to give me a review product like Htc or Lg or any phone company? If there's a email you know I can contact let me know!
They don't just give them out to people. You need to be a recognised and known name in some sort of journalist or tech field - something relevant. Unless you've been a tech journalist, or something similar, for years then seriously, start saving up instead. It will be quicker and the time is gonna pass anyway.
HTC Elevate offers the opportunity to get new devices ahead of a public release, but again, they don't just hand those devices out to just anyone. It's mainly to test the device and report issues to HTC so they can square away hardware and software problems prior to releasing the device. You can find out more by going to the link below.
https://elevate.htc.com/intake/1
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HTC Elevate offers the opportunity to get new devices ahead of a public release, but again, they don't just hand those devices out to just anyone. It's mainly to test the device and report issues to HTC so they can square away hardware and software problems prior to releasing the device. You can find out more by going to the link below.
https://elevate.htc.com/intake/1
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Thank do you happen to have an extra code to access?
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Thank do you happen to have an extra code to access?
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No.
I've been member of Elevate for a couple years now and from what I've gathered they don't do field-testing anymore. Not even with software. They stopped doing it because everything got leaked afaik, basically the only things on there right now are;
1. Early but already public info
2. giveaways by competing surveys (pretty uncommon)
3. giveaways through 'share-this'-activities (basically advertising for HTC on your own social media, a little more common)
4. forums to talk with fellow elevate members
there's also meetups around the world, but I've never participated because even the closest one is too far for me to just hop over. I think what they do at these meet-ups is just talk and have a drink together. Only at launch events (which you can be invited to through Elevate) you get to see new phones
And if you want a 'review unit' of anything, you gotta be a reviewer with a nice number of followers first.