Comments on: RonRosenbaum.com? NOT! (Or: Stupid domain tricks)

By: robert ivan

robert ivan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:33:29 +0000

The level of snarkyness between these two is reaching Gawker proportions and I for one love it.

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Jarvis v. Rosenbaum, Digested for Easy Reading | Web2.0h...Really? — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:39:09 +0000

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By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:38:46 +0000

David,
And 1,000 times shorter.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:59:34 +0000

Yep, me too

- Amy

By: Robin Wolaner

Robin Wolaner — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:59:30 +0000

This is hilarious. Jarvis wins.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:21:03 +0000

I’d be happy to help them figure this out…as a consultant.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:13:40 +0000

Yep, it should take the Authors Guild just a minute or two to set up forwarding.

But that said, this blog has been around — under this name — for YEARS. At least 2006, as the Wayback Machine shows.

D’Oh!

- Amy

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:11:52 +0000

Yep, I mentioned that and linked to the whois file for that domain in this article. We’ll see if that changes soon

- Amy Gahran

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:54:14 +0000

This is interesting. This sort of thing happens all the time in the print world, but I’ve never seen it happen in the web world.

Occasionally, a print marketing campaign will make it all the way to the presses before anyone bothers to involve the web department to secure a domain integral to the print product. This results in a domain getting published in the paper without anyone actually owning the domain. Yikes! This is usually a panic-filled, wide-eyed moment for the marketing staff in charge of the project.

If a cyber-squatter notices before the company does, this could be an expensive mistake.

The sad part is, it’s not that the marketing folks didn’t care about securing the domain. They just didn’t know enough about the web to make that simple phone call.

In this case, at least someone involved owns the domain. I suspect the technical contact at the Author’s Guild just hasn’t gotten around to forwarding RonRosenbaum.com to Ron’s Pajamas Media blog. Shouldn’t take them more than 5 minutes to set up the domain forwarding.

By: Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:38:45 +0000

Looks like it’s still registered to the Author’s Guild (www.authorsguild.org).