Shady or Fair Game?

Shady or fair game? So did a search of window cleaners in the area. A facebook page popped up of a company that I hadnt noticed before but they’ve been in business a couple of years at least. They had a link to their website that I wanted to check out but the link was dead… So I bought it and put a redirect to my site.

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Hey they didn’t renew it so I’d say fair game.

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If you slip up and turn your back on the hen house the fox will get his free dinner.

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Fair game.

Shady is when the best company in town is called Anthony C. Leonard Roofing, and you call your company Leonard’s Roofing.

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That’s actually genius! Hmmm…

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Fair game.

Nice move

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shady

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“You snooze, you lose” comes to mind…

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Every time I turn around the bar gets lowered to an even lower level.

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That may be true, but I’d rather not be seen as the fox. Foxes that steal chickens eventually get shot.

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My other thought is that they are probably not in business anymore. A website typically has to be unpaid for several months before a registrar will release it to someone else. Even then, many registrar’s will have an auction for that name if multiple people have asked to buy it within that time frame and so the original owner can still get it back.

So with all of that the previous owner we had ample opportunity to get it back and they didn’t. I can’t imagine they are still in business or want to stay in business since they let their website go.

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I agree with that Alex.

Tim ask if it was “shady or fair game” and gave this following backstory
" So did a search of window cleaners in the area. A facebook page popped up of a company that I hadnt noticed before but they’ve been in business a couple of years at least. They had a link to their website that I wanted to check out but the link was dead…"

So we could be under the assumption the people who owned the domain, no longer owns the farm.

I wonder if the law of karma applies in this scenario?

Perhaps he could have given them a call.

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So my decision is the domain lapsed. Like mshramek said, when a domain lapses they give you plenty of warnings and then there is a slight grace period where they allow you to recoup and still keep the data from your page. I like the domain and will most likely use it in the future. I have taken the redirect down though because I dont want to interact with his customers like that. I dont feel as there is anything shady about that and picking up the domain was fair game.

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The warnings only work if you see them. Web domains lapse all the time, even corporations that make billions of dollars lose track of domain renewals.

If you are a nice guy you could contact him and if he wants it back sell for a modest fee.

Technically you could be what they call domain squatting, and he could get it back if he really wanted. But it would cost a lot more than what you offer him.

Or you could sit on it and see if he ever reaches out to you.

What would you want done to you?

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oooo he brings out the golden rule!!!
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:cactus:27

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I think it’s a great rule because some people are so dense that they think it’s ok to stab people in the back until someone is stabbing them in the back then of course it’s not ok

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the donald says it’s not personal- it’s just business, there is a great line meg ryan line in who’s got mail “why do people say it’s not personal, it’s personnal to me!”