I've been wandering around the cyberworld for a bit recently, taking in the sites and seeing what is new. I'm a member of the knitting/crocheting equivalent of Facebook, and was wondering what all the fuss was about Twitter. I tried to use the domain that we have held for many years - pretty much since domains existed - to sent up an account somewhere. Failed as it was already taken. No Problem (well, yes, problem, but I will get over it).
So I did a search for our domain under that service, found the person, followed the URL. Granted the URL has our domain with an added word, but when you go to the website, the banner is just our domain name. There is no use of "consulting", "farms" or any other indicator that it is not us.
Is this kosher? Seems like they are trying to be us, to me, but that they realized that they had been beaten to the punch. If so, they should add the extra word to their banner and not continue as posers. There was at least one other group that wanted our name, we gave them an alternate suggestion and, to my knoweldge, that's what their banner says too.
I'm not in a sharing mood right now, and this feels a bit like identity theft to me. (I'm sure spouse will have other ideas.)
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