Comments on: Those Firefox smarty-pants

By: Craig Francis

Craig Francis — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:09:36 +0000

Hi, just noticed your website in my referrer logs… and yes I own getie7.com, although it was a joke, it was available and I was bored.

I doubt it will make much of a difference, but if I get one person to convert then it has been more than worth it.

Although, M$ did send me a letter asking me to hand over control (in January), with a demand that I reply “within 30 days”. I did so, stating that I had no intention to hand it over and that they could not possibly have ownership over the letters “ie”.

In my reply I also demanded that they replied within 30 days… and I did phone up the legal cretin to check she had received my letter (which she had)… but still no direct reply after 7 months.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:28:24 +0000

Sad, sad, sad firefox people (whether it was official or not).

By: Wonko

Wonko — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:01:36 +0000

From the first page:

“Neither this site nor Mozilla is connected with Microsoft.”

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:25:26 +0000

Just out of interest – did you notice that the IE7.com URL was created back in 99? – Someone else is ‘sat’ on IE8.com. This is nothing new, just flagrant “cybersquatting”. It’s not as bad as the guy who owns ‘windowsupdates.com’ – The extra S makes all the difference, dontcha know.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:04:36 +0000

No, I don’t think Mozilla had anything to do with this either. The point is that Microsoft didn’t think of these domains. Especially ie7.com!

And no, Rafgar, Tucows didn’t beat Microsoft to anything. Tucows is only the domain registrar. As Neil correctly notes, the domains themselves are registered in the UK. The ie7.com domain has a lock on it, so you can;t tell who owns it. Getie7.com is apparently owned by SynergyCMS.

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:05:46 +0000

They’re both registered to UK companies. As Rafgar says, I don’t think Mozilla had anything to do with this.

By: Rafgar

Rafgar — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:38:20 +0000

Yep. TuCows beat MS to it. Check whois before you go jumping to conclusions. My guess is that Mozilla doesn’t even know about this.

http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=ie7.com&x=0&y=0
http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=getie7.com&x=0&y=0

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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:34:43 +0000

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By: Shawn Oster

Shawn Oster — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:19:13 +0000

The best part about this is that if Microsoft was to do this then they would be ripped a new one by the community. Is it me or does the underdog always end up being just as bad as the supposed Golith they are out to slay?

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:03:18 +0000

Fanboyism at it’s finest. It will be fun to see Microsoft’s legal hounds jump on this and sue them into oblivion