很不幸的，目前所有嘗試聯絡 plogworld.org 域名擁有人的方法都失敗了，完全沒有得到任何的回應。看樣子，他們似乎並沒有興趣要販賣這個域名。通常這些網路域名的買賣者透過荷蘭式的拍賣

I don't get how you managed to lose the domain, actually.
Who was its proprietary ?

It's a complicated situation, but the loss of the domain was my fault. Not 'stolen' per se, but a mismanagement of registrars + high fees to reactivate led to the loss of the domain.

I'm sorry about the loss of the domain, some on internet are there just to show how stupid and dishonest people can be.
A suggestion: Let us all that support this project write to the peoble that hijacked the domain and ask them to sell it at a reasonable price.
But in the meanwhile, please make it easy for us instructing how to change the links to plogworld.o_g at the bottom of each template.

I say we tie them up to the rafters and hold a lighter to the bottom of their feet, meanwhile making them tell us how stealing things is bad.

Or we may hafta contact Mr. Wolf. :)

I agee with the person above and a title for the e-mail could be something like 'Domain Hijacking is Yukky' or some such.
Then we all send the e-mail at the same time on an agreed time and date. I was kinda surprised at first when OI saw it and at the end of the day this could be handled via 'Copy Right theft'. Technically 'PLOG' is yours and so is 'PLOGTWORLD', in the sence that plogworld relates to plog meaning technically 'The World of pLOG'.

In this sence you do have recourse and can proove that there use is detrimental to plog and demeans your product. Even though plog is a free project it is technically still a product.
What they are doing is not only 'Domain Hijacking' but also Domain Theft and copyright i fringement. As long as you can proove that you invented the name (Thought it up) and that it has allways been associated with your product.

Anyway an investigation of plogworld.org shows that it is registered now to www.pool.com and there e-mail is service@pool.com

Full Registra Details (plogworld.org)
Domain ID:D105474115-LROR
Domain Name:PLOGWORLD.ORG
Created On:22-Dec-2004 18:50:55 UTC
Expiration Date:22-Dec-2005 18:50:55 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Transecute (India) Private Limited (R1305-LROR)
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:PIT
Registrant Name:Pool.com In Trust
Registrant Organization:Pool.com
Registrant Street1:43 Auriga
Registrant City:Nepean
Registrant State/Province:ON
Registrant Postal Code:K2E7Y8
Registrant Country:CA
Registrant Phone:+1.6132211210
ice@pool.com

Now thats looking to me that it is in india but further investigation shows that pool.com is in canada.

registration details pool.com
Registrant
Pool.com Inc.
43 Auriga Drive, Nepean,
On K2E 7Y8
Ottawa, ON (CA)
K2E 7Y8

They are definately liable to copyright laws for one and also domain hijacking/theft. Interesting to note is they've been around awhile..

Domain Pool.com
Date Registered: 5/5/1995
Date Modified: 5/4/2004
Expiry Date: 5/6/2010
DNS1: ns1.pool.com
DNS2: ns2.pool.com
DNS3: ns3.backbonedns.com

So that says to me that these guy's are not ameteaurs but high end professionals and this has been done at upper Registra Level.. Thinks me is going to try kicking up a stink...heh heh heh...;)

For those using unix/linux here's a quick and dirty fix.

perl -p -i -e 's/plogworld.org/plogworld.net/g' `find . -name '*.php'`

One problem with pursuing this as a copyright issue, is that even if you are in the right, your legal fees would easily cost thousands of dollars.

The idea of just threatening them with copyright infringement sounds good and I agree that we might have a point, as long as the thing doesn't snowball and we end up in court. As a free project, we do not have the economic or the legal resources to get into litigation...

It is clearly an abuse but unfortunately there is not much we can do :(

I just stumbled across this site in search of an example of plog in action, and found the post above.

About 2 years ago I had a domain taken over by these guys as well.

I live in canada about 3 hrs drive away from where they're located.

They're obviously using the Ultrasearch business model where they snap up expired domains and put up a PPC links or search page to take advantage of clickthru's. If that page gets any amount of traffic or clickthrus, I'm afraid you may be out of luck getting it from them.

Suggestion: There is a software program out there called AffiliateFinderPro.com that gives you the ability to check all back links to a domain name and get all the details for each from registrars or about.html pages on those sites. Even though it's set up for a different purpose it should work for you.

If you used that program to find all links pointing to plogworld.o*g and compiled emails into a database, you could mass mail everyone with instructions on how to change their links over to the .net version of your domain name.

Just an idea, but it's a cheaper alternative than litigation, and it would also pull the rug out from under the new registrant of your domain. Killing two birds with one stone is always a good thing.

I think it is because of this Plog so-called " fortune for money ".
One has no thing that interests supported, if no group of people held the permanent one to promote , that does not really have future.
Large-scale enterprise those can become big enterprise , have interests its combination.
Now, " may " there is one kind the thing which endangered to their interests has appeared , certainly they do not support.

lkj

Luckily it's not that many pages to change.

such as Xlog .......

It's taken a while to get our name recognized by the community so we're not going to change it now just like that...

Brian,

You might want to remove the link to Plogworld.org on this page http://plog.bliang.com/

;-)

Damon

oops, meant Bradley, sorry.

At least in my country (Chile), if you are the legal owner of the brand "plog" or it's legally way to probe that you have the brand used for at least 2 years before the change or owner, it's possible get - by law- the current domain.
Maybe it's a good idea, trying by this way.
The nearest solution its change any kind of shortcut to plogworld.org in templates and current sites, so the traffic will going slow and slow, giving the idea to the current owner of a "bad bussiness" own the current domain.

Good luck.!

I think it is horrible, what they have done to your efforts to promote a free product. We are an ICANN Accredited Registrar, so if you need help or some advice, then I would be happy to lend a hand. You have rights under the UDRP, and something like the http://www.arbitration-forum.com ,could help. Please e-mail me if you would like pursue this further.

Suggest to use:

http://plog-gnu.org

As plogworld.* and plog.* are used .....

I just went to the plog wiki and found a link to .org on the homepage. I can't see where to get a user account to edit it (and can't edit without one), so I must leave it to somebody else to update.