enworld.com and .net

thatdarncat · 21st December 2003, 01:07 AM

Anyone accidentally gone to these addresses lately? I was changing an old enworld.cyberstreet.com URL to enworld.org and forgot to change the .com. It's now an advertising site, as is enworld.net

Michael Morris · 21st December 2003, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by thatdarncat

Anyone accidentally gone to these addresses lately? I was changing an old enworld.cyberstreet.com URL to enworld.org and forgot to change the .com. It's now an advertising site, as is enworld.net

Last I checked .com expires on the 14th. At that time I'd recommend scooping it up. I asked the previous owners if the domain was for sale and they gave a price of $300. They've folded and been bought by another company which might give up the .com address for something more reasonable.

The owners are in the business of selling domains - that is they are squatters.

thatdarncat · 21st December 2003, 03:06 AM

Yup, I'm familiar with the process. Just wasn't sure if anyone had noticed

Gez · 21st December 2003, 12:17 PM

It's true that with EN World Publishing and EN World Shop, a .com adress is legitimate (non-commercial .com are a pet peeves of mine), and the hosting and messageboarding made also legitimize the .net adress.