Jellybeans - not sure what to make of this?

[lebowski]

Hmm .. That's been said before.

Is this directed at me?

 

[retired_member16]

There appear to be a lot of closet Yanks on here - talking of libel and taking her to court.

Ignore the thread, ignore the women, move on and enjoy the sunshine. Dont be petty.

 

[Skinner]

So you're saying let her bad mouth his business, claim that as a domainer he's a terrorist holding her to randsom and again as a domainer he must target businesses in order to do this ?

You think this should just be ignored and then sit back an wonder why nominet and whoever else say domainer and think Saddam / Bin Laden / Molosovoch / Gary Glitter / Candyman / Magneto ?

Shit sticks, and if she goes around enough doing it, i'll bet you a penny to the pound her story of woe and anguish will reach more people than your explanation how the drop process works, how drop catching, domaining and the meaning of life will.

p.s. If you need a solicitor for libel/defamation/etc Speak to Riyaz at http://www.lawdit.co.uk

 

[mat]

You didnt reg it to piss anyone off, you registered it because its a nice name, end of story.

You have done nothing wrong.

 

[Takwa]

Her new hosting company is responsible, come on when the domain was suspended she should should have caught on and contact her register company and they should have had sorted it out for her with Nominet.

Only thing she can sue for Jelly Beans are the company responsible for her renewal, if she had contacted them before it was free to reg.

it is not a trademark name, so no point dealing with these bad mouthing people, why done you send her a bag of Jelly Beans for to say sorry for her lost

 

[dtm]

why done you send her a bag of Jelly Beans for to say sorry for her lost

Good idea

 

[aZooZa]

Is this directed at me?

-- withdrawn comment --

 

[woopwoop]

Let's face it she has been very sketchy with some of her facts/statements so far that there is a good chance that her host didn't mess up and that she just forgot to renew it

(maybe changed her email address or something and didn't get the reminder)


I bet most of the time this is what happens. People are mad at themselves and are looking for someone to blame.

 

[cm1975]

Just read this off the jellybeans thread on ukbusinessforums.co.uk posted earlier in this thread -

Off topic, but the snackacan.com website in your signature has some sort of Trojan on the home page - tries to modify the hosts file. Just to be sure, I opened it twice - same result.

I'd wondered where the f*ck the Trojan I'd got last week had come from! Arrggghhhh!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[grantw]

Just read this off the jellybeans thread on ukbusinessforums.co.uk posted earlier in this thread -



I'd wondered where the f*ck the Trojan I'd got last week had come from! Arrggghhhh!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Yep, not only do you have to wade through the mountain of shockingly bad advice being given on that forum, you also come away with an infected PC

:t

Grant

 

[Alpha]

Fascinating read over on that thread.

You got to feel sorry for 'ole Babs.. not only did her host/registrar go tits up, she is generally confused with the whole interweb thingy too. She is surrounded by professional know-nothings who are hell-bent on trying to waste her money chasing a dead-cert loss, and to top it all she seems to have altzheimers after swearing blind she registered the domain 10 years before she did.

We should all thank Babs, if it wasn't for people like her, there wouldn't be a drop catch business.

Rob: nice try mate, but you might want to try getting the crayons out and drawing a picture and post it up - but keep it simple, and don't forget to label the nasty cyber-squatter (he's the one that looks like Dick Dastardly), and Babs, well she can be Penelope pitstop.

 

[crabfoot]

Just to summarise the thread of accusation -

There's this lady called Babs, who does a bit of charitable work on the side, who originally registered jellybeans co uk using a trading name which she has not used for years, and did not update her information.

The original host and registrant has been liquidated, and the hosting has passed to a US company. They gave Babs verbal assurances that she would retain the name. Then, instead of renewing it, they tried to catch it, and failed. After that, they gave Babs some BS to deflect attention from themselves, and she went off like putting a match to a rocket.

A lot of bad advice was thrown into the thread, as well as good advice. Rob Taylor and Michael Toth have posted a lot of sense, among others.

The general concensus of the advice is that Babs has no legal claim, and the blame for her plight lies with her registrar.
There is an old Welshman who wants to argue about this, but from the way he writes I think he could start an argument in an empty house!

In Babs' favour - She has had the thread retitled, after realising the original title was inappropriate.
Against her , and other posters - The thread still contains a lot of references to a cybersquatter, and the Nominet WHOIS data. Babs is reported to have tried playing a number of "sympathy cards" in discussion, after venting her spleen.

As a bicycle-riding old f*rt with a record of charitable activities over the last 45 years, I think I am in a position to comment on this.

I wouldn't give the name back. Looking at the Wayback Machine version of the site, anyone who thought that site was going to make money for charity was into self-deceit - looks like parking with pics, and only thrown up there out of kindness to Babs by the poor sod whose company went to the wall. The whole thing is reminiscent of the servant in the parable who buried his talent of silver in the ground, instead of using it to make more dosh like the other servants did.

There are alternative names available to register - I have checked. PM me if you can't think of one.
I would suggest that it might be polite to offer Babs a free registration on another, similar domain. The really difficult thing is that such an offer should be headed "Without Prejudice" ...