I'm pretty annoyed! Some fool registered riocar.com and is hosting a porn site there. WTF!!

Calvin

Hmm... Should be install pr0n instead...

Bummer.

whois riocar.com

Organization:
Jose Eduardo Caram Andre
Jose Eduardo Caram Andre
Rua Silva Jardim 347/301
Belo Horizonte, MG 30150-010
BR
Phone: 5531-2245371
Fax..: 1-562-7505915
Email: [email protected]

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: RIOCAR.COM

Created on..............: Wed, Sep 20, 2000
Expires on..............: Sat, Sep 20, 2003
Record last updated on..: Sat, Jun 08, 2002

Administrative Contact:
Jose Eduardo Caram Andre
Jose Eduardo Caram Andre
Rua Silva Jardim 347/301
Belo Horizonte, MG 30150-010
BR
Phone: 5531-2245371
Fax..: 1-562-7505915
Email: [email protected]

Technical Contact:
NameBargain.com
Domain Registrar
575 Eighth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 212-798-9276
Fax..: 212-629-9306
Email: [email protected]

Zone Contact:
NameBargain.com
Domain Registrar
575 Eighth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 212-798-9276
Fax..: 212-629-9306
Email: [email protected]

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM 208.184.130.51
NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM 208.184.130.52
NS3.MYDOMAIN.COM 208.184.130.53
NS4.MYDOMAIN.COM 208.184.130.55

I made sure that won't be happening to riocar.net. It should be pointing to riocar.org sometime within the next 24 hours.

Just another sad bastard thinking they can make a killing by trying to sell the domain back. Makes me want to puke!

Well, SonicBlue could try and force them in court, but would they bother for a discontinued product...

I kinda think SonicBlue's lawyers have enough going on these days...

I made sure that won't be happening to riocar.net. It should be pointing to riocar.org sometime within the next 24 hours.

Meatballman rolls to the rescue!!!

riocar.net is now redirecting traffic to riocar.org...

You da man, meatball man.

What is interesting about this is that according to the above information - the domain riocar.com was registered before (if I recall the details correctly now) the S3 announcement of the acquisition of Empeg by Sonicblue.

Not sure if anyone can shed any light on this - it could be a hint that someone had inside information about the empeg/RioCar product beforehand, or maybe someone guessed correctly that S# might do a mp3 car player under the Rio brand?

Can't accuse anyone of cyber-squatting if they registered a domain name before the product even existed can you?

Can any of the Empeg guys comment on the dates here - I know this was probably thrashed to death back when this domain was first registered.

Perhaps the word "riocar" means something in another language?

Or maybe it's a company that just registered a huge list of "word+word" domain names without regard to their meaning?

"Perhaps the word "riocar" means something in another language? "

hmmm "riocar" = porn? interesting. . .

rio = river in spanish and portuguese.

I believe the registrar was in brazil...

If rio = river in Spanish / Portuguese
and car = filth / dirt / noise

then maybe "rio"+ "car" = A "river of filth" - aka a porn site?

When we, Rio (SB), selected the name "Rio Car" there was (sadly) little research done into the domain name availability. As soon as it had been selected, I personally snagged riocar.org since corporate was typically too slow to move on things like this. Glad we've got is now.

As noticed, riocar.com had previously been registered at that time.

The main Rio home page at the time was riohome.com - it doesn't take a great leap of imagination to come up with riocar.com.

The acquisition of empeg was announced in November 2000.

Rob

So the domain registration predates it by two months.

I think we're looking at a language coincidence.