www.dnforums.com

[anon]

How come when I go to www.dnforums.com it fowards me to www.domainstate.com?

[Fearless]

If you own a domain name, you can forward it anywhere you want to.

I see it didn't stop you from finding the right place.

[Ciqala]

its all some kind of interlinked conspiracy if you ask me...

I mean you only have to look at My Penis for proof...

[system0]

so domain picked up a mis-spelling of this sites name to redirect traffic to domainstate

smart move

[RON2]

dnforums.com used to forward to dnforum.com until very recently

[Nexus]

Originally posted by -RJ-
dnforums.com used to forward to dnforum.com until very recently

Exactly. From what I remember from last year, a "Wanda" had registered "dnforum.net". There was a whole thread about it involving revenge, etc. If someone else owns this other domain, I'm sure they are simply trying to sew confusion and misunderstanding.

As the person is using Enom's nameservers, its not as if we can assume that any information in the whois record is valid.

This is regretable, and should not be taken as any "move" by DomainState.com until someone says otherwise. I agree with Fonz that it definitely IS a *smart move*, but I believe it is a *smart move* by someone trying to mess with people's heads. :(

~ Nexus

[Nexus]

Interesting, I just read about what happened afterwards. The name game is such a tired hassle. People should stop playing these games.

~ Nexus

[.com.net.org]

this is one of the game in domain business.

[oohdale]

Originally posted by anon
How come when I go to www.dnforums.com it fowards me to www.domainstate.com?

All I see is that someone has made someone real unhappy that's all.

DNFORUMS.COM WHOIS Results


Domain name: dnforums.COMDNS servers: DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COMCreated: 2002-04-12 00:00:00Expires: 2003-04-12 00:00:00Registrant Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUAdministrative Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUBilling Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUTechnical Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUStatus: PROTECTED
This is all I could find out about it.

[David G]

Originally posted by oohdale DNFORUMS.COM WHOIS Results Domain name: dnforums.COMDNS servers: DNS1.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS2.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS3.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS4.NAME-SERVICES.COM DNS5.NAME-SERVICES.COMCreated: 2002-04-12 00:00:00Expires: 2003-04-12 00:00:00Registrant Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUAdministrative Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUBilling Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUTechnical Contact: Corporate Names Corporate Names (ebiz@asia.com) 0011 54 68 94 FAX: none P.O. Box 697 Hervey Bay, QU 4655 AUStatus: PROTECTED This is all I could find out about it.

By an odd coincidence 2 of the 3 DS Mod's are from Australia, the 3rd one Safesys is from U.K. I am not saying that is related to the above ownership of dnforums.com but likely just a coincidence. But it's always possible a fellow countryman from AU wants to help Domainstate out by buying the name and putting it on redirect, perhaps even without the knowledge of the Mod's there.

Domainstate is 100% non-us owned and operated. That's one of the reasons I prefer DNF (U.S. owned) in that it seems the .US extension is much more popular at DNF than DS. Not sure if the ownership and mod location is the reason for this or not. But being a major .us holder with more than 400 dot-us names it seems to make DNF more valuable to me than DS, though both forums are good, with DS appearing much more conservative and businesslike than DNF is. DNF also seems to be more active and larger but DS is gaining ground fast it seems.

[Nexus]

RealNames said:But it's always possible a fellow countryman from AU wants to help Domainstate out by buying the name and putting it on redirect, perhaps even without the knowledge of the Mod's there.

The order of events sound a little screwy there. This person apparently registered the name last April as a defensive move for a forum they enjoyed. I remember first coming to this forum last July/August and once, accidently thinking it was dnforumS.com, and pleasantly being redirected to the right place (I thought, hey, "good move guys"). I never once thought to look and see who owned it, I just assumed it was the owner of dnforum.com. Apparently the owner of dnforumS.com recently decided they'd stop pointing it here, and point it at a website they find greater preference in... or point it at the other website to bug the owner of dnforum.com (or both).

It's important to note that by the dates and behavior, the name wasn't regged *just* to point it to domain*state. There was a change in intention/allegiance at some point.

I'll leave to whole US./non-US thing alone though. I consider DNF and DS to be fairly International. I'd prefer to focus on that.

~ Nexus

[anon]

well thats what got me the first time it went to another site, I just typed in dnforums.com as i always did, for some reason my brain always told me it was forums, I still do it now and again.

I do sometimes read up on domainstate, but don't post, I think I registered here to reply to a specific post, and occasionally reply to others becasue I'm already registered so its easy, with domian state there has been no specific post that has made me want to register so I just haven't bothered