Ken_McE
Flashlight Enthusiast
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- Jun 16, 2003
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Some junk link page has popped up at:
http://www.candlepowerforum.com/
It is an obvious attempt to mislead people who are looking for the real Candlepower forums. It even looks like someone (something?) glanced at the real CPF site to scrape up some key words. It is a flashing neon hell of pop up and unders. It is owned by something called "laporteholdings.com". the laporte website suggests that they rather expect aggrieved domain holders to be looking for them. http://laporteholdings.com/
These pages suggest that Laporte makes its living by typosquatting:
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0240.html
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/473826.htm
http://www.upallnightgaming.com/blogs/nitrox/archive/category/1007.aspx
This page suggests he opens with a demand of $500 per name and is quite good at dodging registered letters and process servers:
http://tinyurl.com/e4eso
Edit: Link shortened to stop horizontal scrolling - Empath
http://www.candlepowerforum.com/
It is an obvious attempt to mislead people who are looking for the real Candlepower forums. It even looks like someone (something?) glanced at the real CPF site to scrape up some key words. It is a flashing neon hell of pop up and unders. It is owned by something called "laporteholdings.com". the laporte website suggests that they rather expect aggrieved domain holders to be looking for them. http://laporteholdings.com/
These pages suggest that Laporte makes its living by typosquatting:
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0240.html
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/473826.htm
http://www.upallnightgaming.com/blogs/nitrox/archive/category/1007.aspx
This page suggests he opens with a demand of $500 per name and is quite good at dodging registered letters and process servers:
http://tinyurl.com/e4eso
Edit: Link shortened to stop horizontal scrolling - Empath