Is there any reason to trust American companies in 2018?
>American owns France.com with an American registrar (web.com) and has been using it as a site for people interested in France and French culture since 1994 >the French government wants the domain and demands it from the registrar >they just fucking hand it to them >now the guy is suing
Fucking dumbfuck Amerimutt company literally just handed over his domain to a foreign entity without even informing the owner. No court order, nothing. What kind of amateur shit company is this? And now I've just checked france.com and it just redirects to the French government's france.fr website.
It would have been cheaper just to offer to buy it, shit man.
Jordan Sanchez
I could understand them wanting France.com for tourism and shit. And I can also understand that the original owner is Suing, and I wish him the Best.
You'd think they just say screw it and grab RépubliqueFrançaise.com or just Française.com
Benjamin Ross
I'm just going to take the bait and be the one to tell you that the country is named "France" in French as well, albeit prefixed with the feminine article "la"...
Benjamin Gray
T H I S T H I S
Carter Powell
Seems like he has a good case. Should get at least 100x what he was projected to earn from the site over his lifetime, right?
But France also has a good case for taking over the domain. France existed before the internet did, let alone before the man registered the domain. That's like owning a trademark, and trademark holders should have rights to their namesake as long as there aren't others with the same trademark in other fields. It's not always reasonable for someone to own something so valuable just because they sniped it first, but they guy deserves A LOT in exchange for the domain.
Ayden Powell
.gov is American only
Owen Evans
Governments should have power over little bitch petty corporations
France doesn't really have a good case for seizing the domain. .com is an American top level domain, I know a lot of non-American companies have .com domains but America certainly has precident when it comes to them. Problem is just that people guess most websites are .com so they wanted to catch the guessers too.
Jaxson Ward
>France is the English name and any French person would be searching Francais instead quoi le fuck?
According to the lawsuit, France "expressley discaimed the exclusive right to the word -France-" in Atout France's US Trademark Registration No. 4027580.
Asher Cox
>But France also has a good case for taking over the domain. France existed before the internet did, let alone before the man registered the domain. That's like owning a trademark, and trademark holders should have rights to their namesake as long as there aren't others with the same trademark in other fields. sorry, i meant to follow up to this post too ... the legal argument is, that France expressly gave up this right in a 2009 trademark filing.
Logan King
actually. that loops really good.
Lincoln Rogers
underrated post
Henry Flores
serious autism
Brayden Allen
Is there any logical reason why you would fucking say that post is underrated? Has anybody expressed any kind of dissatisfaction or criticism at all against it? Are you delusional? Are you reading replies that are nonexistent? Maybe you come from communities with voting systems, but there is literally no way that you could know what other people think of that post you just replied to here. Maybe it's psychological. Maybe it's your own post you're replying to, like a 12 year old fucktard liking his own facebook posts thinking his swelling autism is going unnoticed. Maybe your self esteem depends on you tricking yourself into thinking someone out there thinks your post is worth something. Or maybe you are just a retard, the worst kind of retard, the one who thinks he's smart, the one who thinks he's the only one to have gotten the joke, to have understood the post. Well, guess what, faggot, that post is under no definition underrated so why don't you do the world a favor and go check out what the bottom of your toilet seat smells like?
Gavin Jackson
It has to be your first day here if you still think that jokes like that are still funny.
Ian Cook
Inb4 means in before. Meaning you are calling that someone will say it before it is said. In this case, OP already put it in his original post, so you were not inb4, you are just incapable of reading or ignoring that point.
Carson Cruz
even if hes wrong he brings up a good point of why the fuck do we rename countries instead of just calling them what natives call them in their language
Oliver Gonzalez
so france is a company now not a cunt
Robert Garcia
>But France also has a good case for taking over the domain. France existed before the internet did, let alone before the man registered the domain. no they don't have any good case if anything they're should have france.fr or something like that .com is obviously for commerce but i'm willing to bet france is not paying any taxes
Jayden Turner
> Send me an email to wh (at) germany.com, i will answer all emails :-), but i will NOT answer any phatasy-mails from gmail/hotmail/live/outlook ... i expect mails from you from Firstname.Lastname(at) company-name.de/com ... You see my Name so if you expect an answer i expect your name and address. kek
Jeremiah Wood
>Poland is American now the more you
Bentley Stewart
A victory
Gavin Cook
ackchually Poland has by far the hardest boner for the US of all euro countries. Probably because the US is the only first world country that never tried to conquer them.
Grayson Ross
Is it pertinent to my example of other countries than US using .gov? Teach me your ways, senpai.
David Gonzalez
well you let your ho use your toilet but that doesn't mean it's a public one
Christian Jackson
Got me.
Owen Nelson
Because I wantto say China, not chin lin min din land.
David Morgan
because He is From Reddit
Jayden Martin
>domain squatting
nah fuck em
Wyatt Gomez
Why, because they have armed thugs at their disposal?
Adam Kelly
yeah might is right
Jack Bell
Wouldn't the site be the IP of the man in this case? Does web.com own the site or does the man?
Josiah Kelly
I don't trust any government farther than I can throw the voting ballot. If you want protection, buy a gun and stop enabling the monmy state.
Brody Perry
If you're actively using the site for something - as was the case here - it's not domain squatting. Domain squatting is if you are registering domains with the sole intent of re-selling them for profit. And don't put anything up other than offers to sell the domain.
Ethan Clark
Never seen this pasta before
Bentley Bell
carry a knife lose your life carry a gun lose your life
Oliver Lewis
underrated post
Joshua Hernandez
>Posting the bear again Thank fuck.
Adrian Adams
Because of your inane government's regulatuons, I presume?
What are you going on about? Neither poland.gov nor polska.gov resolve for me.
Are you confusing the "gov." TLD with the "gov.pl." domain?
Josiah Morales
you bet
Jack Taylor
why would you use kek or lel instead of lol? Think about it. It doesn't mean anything, its just the modification of the actual acronym lol. You don't even know why you use it. Somewhere, sometime you saw a few people post it and hopped right on board. Too mainstream for lol right? Thats so old, its meaning makes sense but you dont feel comfortable expressing your approval of things on the internet with the common old "lol" thats been around for so long. You'll man up and use the purposely misspelled version with no discernible humor or purpose besides making you look like a complete idiot while you maintain the false concept that other people find it amusing or appropriate and using purposely misspelled words shows the world that youre not afraid of anything and are part of some grand inside joke that no one finds funny. Theres a lot going through your head, but you realize I am right. You will try though, to get the best of this exchange. What are you going to go for? Newfag? Summer? oh damn there are so many options to choose from. An implication that I'm underage perhaps? Thats always fresh. Maybe you'll just shut down. I think you should go with something about butthurt or being mad or even comment on the length of the unproportionally long comment that so swiftly brought to your attention that you are a faggot that tries oh so hard to fit in. Careful though, is this even oc? Tsk tsk hard to say dont want to get embarrassed user. I'm sure you could find some grammar or spelling errors as a last resort. I cant wait, Its always fun playing insult roulette
If only there was an alternative to ICANN domains that was uncensorable and not subject to government interference.
Jace Thomas
it's really shocking that the state uses fear tactics to make kids more vulnerable obviously you won't get life imprisonment for carrying a knife but still it's a pretty harrowing concept all in the name of statistics... what's a few more dead kids anyway?
Jacob King
French call it France you fucking dumb hole, Francais is the language
Adrian Stewart
>implying a registrar being retarded has anything to do with icann
James Miller
How can I own a domain? All websites just ask money per month and if you don't pay every month you lose it. It's like renting but how do you buy to own?
Robert Butler
If I ever reg'd a bunch of names of stuff I think will become important in the future based on trends I notice, like upcoming politicians and movements I think will get big, do you think they would take them from me to give to actual people involved as well?
Lucas Ortiz
Some domains you can actually buy I'm pretty sure, but many companies probably don't want to "lose" them. E.g. rappareisamverkan.com
Eli Gomez
Way to miss the point.
Evan Rivera
But where do I go to buy them?
John Reyes
Mad frog
David Moore
Well were it redirects you? There are probably some lists on those domain sites on which all domains they have for sale are listed. There is probably no site that lists all domains for sale on all domain sites though.
Do you have any idea how many wars France has won over the course of history? Sure they're faggot losers now, but there was a time when France produced some of the best fighting men in the world.