08-09-2003 21:35									#1
	Sid Meier's Pirates! Website Inflate your Upload Space

No...it's not up yet. But there's a pretty good chance that it'll be called www.pirates2.com. Here's why:

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	08-09-2003 22:09									#2
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Great popups

	08-09-2003 22:23									#3
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Even if they weren't going to call it pirates2.com (which they probably will), Infogrames would have bought up the domain name anyway to stop anyone else using it - and to make that URL redirect to whatever other official site they're using.

	08-09-2003 23:46									#4
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Too bad for fansites, eh?

	09-09-2003 00:32									#5
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Well, the exact same thing, up to the date, goes for

www.sidmeierspirates.com
www.sidmeierspirates.net
www.sidmeierspirates.org

So, I suppose what Infogrames did on Feb 21 was buy off all the domains that may deal with Pirates!

	09-09-2003 01:03									#6
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Hmmm....why not:

www.sidmeierspirates.gov

or even

www.sidmeierspirates.ru

Asmodean

	09-09-2003 02:22									#7
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quote: Originally posted by vovansim So, I suppose what Infogrames did on Feb 21 was buy off all the domains that may deal with Pirates!

* FrustratedPoet is always right.

	09-09-2003 02:59									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Asmodean www.sidmeierspirates.ru

That would prevent all russians named Sid Meier from making a pirates clone.

	14-09-2003 13:29									#9
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Or how about www.sidmeierspirates.co.nz?

This could be a New Zealand site that has a whole bunch of Sid Meier's games that have been pirated.

Oh...hold on...have I misunderstood something here?

I think my fate might be

	14-09-2003 13:32									#10
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quote: Originally posted by vovansim Well, the exact same thing, up to the date, goes for www.sidmeierspirates.com www.sidmeierspirates.net www.sidmeierspirates.org So, I suppose what Infogrames did on Feb 21 was buy off all the domains that may deal with Pirates!

Thou shalt not use any .net TLD for wesites other than ones dealing with Net infrastructure.

This is one of the Commandments of the Net.

	14-09-2003 16:00									#11
	Inflate your Upload Space

Wow you guys are really bored.

	14-09-2003 20:48									#12
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Nah...not bored. Just posting about "other games".

Asmodean

	14-09-2003 22:24									#13
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quote: Thou shalt not use any .net TLD for wesites other than ones dealing with Net infrastructure.

Yes! We all know that Apolyton is a vital part of the infrastructure of the Internet.

	15-09-2003 03:47									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Thou shalt not use any .net TLD for wesites other than ones dealing with Net infrastructure. This is one of the Commandments of the Net.

And like most Commandments of the Net, it's widely ignored, since those who come down from the mountain with the stone tablets happily let parasitic scum grab up names with abandon and hold them off the market, thus making many .com TLD's unavailable to "real" businesses. And their arbitration procedures are crap, so don't even go there.

	15-09-2003 14:23									#15
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I.e. the owners of ACS must be arrogant as they don't obey the actual TLD policies.

	15-09-2003 14:28									#16
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Whats the bet anyone here could find over a dozen sites that also break this "commandment"?

Besides, Poly is part of the net structure.

	15-09-2003 18:54									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Besides, Poly is part of the net structure.

Hear hear!

	15-09-2003 20:12									#18
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As we've already proved in a thread in the community forums, Apolyton practically owns the internet.

Asmodean

	15-09-2003 22:16									#19
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I'm still kind of cheesed off that we won't be getting a pirates forum. Dan and Markos must get on their knees and worship Sid.

	15-09-2003 23:30									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Dan and Markos must get on their knees and worship Sid.

You mean Apolyton isn't greek for "he who worships Sid"?

	15-09-2003 23:49									#21
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Maybe a concerted assault on an ontopic forum would say their opinions. Mwa ha hahahaahmhahaha!

	16-09-2003 00:09									#22
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You're more on target than you think.

Years ago, even after SMAC was released, all SMAC related discussion had to take place in the "Other Games" forum. Only after Mark and Dan saw how intense the level of posting was, did they decide to make a SMAC section.

It really was a Civ site back then.

Asmodean

	16-09-2003 01:38									#23
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I only suggested it because I've been told that our DnD groups may need to do it to get our own forum. We're kind of doing it with chess here, too. We'll see.

	16-09-2003 02:00									#24
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Ah, yes, I can see it now

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	16-09-2003 02:02									#25
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Dammit! You made me look at the forum listing!

	16-09-2003 02:17									#26
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Nice, Vovansim.

	16-09-2003 03:13									#27
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You made me look too.

	16-09-2003 04:13									#28
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What the heck would one do in "Chess- Creation"? Make new versions of Chess?

	16-09-2003 05:38									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Shadowstrike What the heck would one do in "Chess- Creation"? Make new versions of Chess?

I was waiting for someone to ask that!

Well, you see, the Chess-Creation forum would be used for all things pertinent to playing chess creatively. Like, for instance, playing chess on a spherical board.

http://www.endprod.com/chess/sphere.htm

This here site only contains conceptual renderings, but I've actually seen one of those IRL. Couldn't find any pics on the net, though.

PS: Don't you just love how it works out? Now, we are magically back on topic of "Other Games" - spherical chess.

	16-09-2003 08:33									#30
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat And like most Commandments of the Net, it's widely ignored, since those who come down from the mountain with the stone tablets happily let parasitic scum grab up names with abandon and hold them off the market, thus making many .com TLD's unavailable to "real" businesses. And their arbitration procedures are crap, so don't even go there.

That was a problem with Network Solutions. However, there are almost an infinite number of valid combinations of characters to create TLDs with, so if AT&T wasn't fast enough to get att.com, they could always get atnt.com, or at-t.com, etc.

ICANN's arbitration procedure is so in favour of businesses, that any individuals with valid reasons for domain names (such as people with the surname of Ford) get screwed almost 100% of the time.

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