Sooooooo the other day I was sitting at my computer just checking to see what domain names are registered. to my surprise I find that Stef only registered freedomainradio.com.

so I quickly snapped up the .org and .net domains. Now I am not sure what to do with them. My friend suggested I redirect to gay porn. Got any ideas?

what the hell man, what kind of place do you think we're running here?

redirect them to a page of your choice... I would redirect it to the articles or if you find that dirty I would go with Free Talk Live just because I like the show.

Seems kind of mean-spirited, if you ask me...even if you aren't one of Stefan's fans, that doesn't mean that you have to do things to lash out at him. Two wrongs, y'know?

You could redirect to this site, I suppose.

I know the internet is serious business and all, but I think it would be funny if someone misspelled the domain name with .net or .org, only to spell it correctly afterward and get banned from FDR because they came from LiMi.

FDR still does that, doesn't it?

Yeah. Redirect here!

- NonE

Snapping up the other unregistered top level domains for freedomainradio and directing them to a web site of your choice is certainly your prerogative. So is re-selling them to Molyneux.

At this point in my thinking I do not think the concept of "intellectual property" is a valid one, so you'll get no objections from me on that level.

The original question that started this thread was about where to re-direct the domains. Since I don't endorse buying up the alternate top level domains for the names of well established web sites, my response would be "nowhere".

Let me put it this way, if someone employed this tactic against a web site that I had put a lot of time and energy into building an audience for, I would think they were a punk and a weasel for doing so.

You *know* this is going to piss Molyneux off...and I can't help but to speculate that's exactly why it was done.

To me this seems like just one more needless escalation in the Molyneux vs. LiMi (Liberating Minds) war. Molyneux tries to get nemesis LiMi web site shutdown by using the underhanded tactic of going after LiMi's web host provider. LiMi member(s) retaliates by using the underhanded tactic of registering the freedomainradio.net/.org domains and redirecting to defamatory web site.

Is Molyneux deserving of some biting criticism delivered in the form of humor? In light of some of his actions, I think so.

Does he deserve to be essentially "domain jacked" with respect to the .net and .org versions of his domain name? I don't think so, and believe that using a tactic like this only damages the credibility of his critics in the eyes of more or less neutral third parties.

If my advice against domain jacking falls on deaf ears, an alternative answer to your question is this: try making light by re-directing to a page that shows the doctored McDonalds sign photo with "99 million banned", or to a freedomain parody site in the spirit of "The Onion"

all good points

It would be interesting to see the statistics on IP banning in general and where Stef fits into the curve.

Any of you geeks out there know if those kinds of statistics are publicly available?

- NonE