Wednesday, November 24, 2010

More WAKA Bullying

Want to know something funny?

GoKickball is one of WAKA's largest competitors in the national market.  Their website is www.gokickball.com.

Guess what I just stumbled upon?

WAKA registered the domain: www.gokickball.org!

Proof from WhoIs:


Domain ID:D155951849-LROR
Domain Name:GOKICKBALL.ORG
Created On:24-Apr-2009 17:07:33 UTC
Last Updated On:12-Apr-2010 10:10:18 UTC
Expiration Date:24-Apr-2011 17:07:33 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Moniker Online Services Inc. (R145-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:MONIKER1936737
Registrant Name:WAKA Kickball
Registrant Street1:PO Box 1002
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Gainesville
Registrant State/Province:VIRGINIA



Oh... and DPT's visits from Arlington, VA continue to be quite high.  Arlington is the closest major city to Gainesville, VA, and our stat tracker lumps those together.

Shame on you WAKA.  This tactic completely violates standard business ethics.

**UPDATE** - You can read more about cybersquatting here. I'm not sure if this qualifies, but we'll research it some more later.

**UPDATE 2** - If you see me out this weekend, ask me about "update 2."

**UPDATE 3** - Since I stumbled upon WAKA's ownership of the www.gokickball.org address... it never occurred to me to broaden the search.  Sure enough... WAKA has registered www.gokickball.net and www.gokickball.info.  For shame!!

**UPDATE 4** - WAKA also owns the websites: www.wakasucks.com and www.kickballsucks.com.  Foreshadowing, perhaps?

3 comments:

Rosey said...

Powerful you've become WAKA, the darkside I sense in you...

Smithkey said...

My how the plot has thickened

Jared said...

What about WAKASucks and Kickballsucks .org, .net, or .info? Who owns all of those Chandler? They can't cover every possibility. We can always come up with something better.