By Carlos Miller
Two years ago when I launched this blog, I tried to buy the domain www.photographyisnotacrime.com but it was already taken and had the words “coming soon” on its home page.
Two years later, nothing has been added to the site but the words “coming soon” are still displayed on its home page.
At first, it appeared that whomever owns this domain had lost interest in turning it into anything.
However, they renewed the domain last January and currently own it until January 2011, according to Go Daddy.
The reason I bring this up is because I am interested in purchasing the domain.
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19 responses so far ↓
1 Packratt // May 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I wish you luck in that.
I’ve had my own weird domain name battles myself, GoDaddy has never been helpful about it, going so far as to give a domain named after my site to the cops, er, I mean people who asked for it for free.
2 Edwin // May 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: PHOTOGRAPHYISNOTACRIME.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ANGRYHOSTING.COM
NS2.ANGRYHOSTING.COM
For complete domain details go to:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=PHOTOGRAPHYISNOTACRIME.COM
Someone probably has it on auto-renew and registered it privately through GoDaddy’s masking service.
3 Duane Kerzic // May 6, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Send the guy an email, PHOTOGRAPHYISNOTACRIME.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
domainsbyproxy is the name of godaddys registar.
4 Lee // May 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM
I don’t have an answer for you, but a question.
Have you seen this story yet?
http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/disabled_politico/archive/2009/05/01/massachusetts-bill-would-rule-people-over-60-and-some-people-with-disabilities-incapable-of-consenting-to-erotic-photography.aspx
5 Big Dave // May 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM
photographyisnotacri.me is available according to WHOIS
6 Duane Kerzic // May 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
so was .usa when i looked, as well as a couple of others. I can understand why Carlos wants the .com name however.
soon there may be a .photo or .photography. so he might want to hold out for that.
7 Dina // May 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM
FYI: photographyisnotacrime.tv
is available.
8 Rob Molecule // May 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM
I like the idea of putting a name that is a political statement as a .us domain name.
9 Carlos Miller // May 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM
I already own photographyisnotacrime.org but I like the dot com because that is what everybody automatically thinks of when thinking of a website.
10 Maz // May 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration PHOTOGRAPHYISNOTACRIME.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599
Just call and fscking hound them.
11 enhager // May 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM
They’ll respond when you offer the right amount of money.
12 Lawrence Salberg // May 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Usually, when you forward a request to purchase and/or contact to the proxy holder, they will forward (by way of obligation) to the actual domain holder.
You can also make some educated guesses at an email at that website and shoot off a few: (webmaster@, admin@, sales@, photographer@, info@, etc…) in the event you never hear back.
13 Kat // May 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Odds are it’s a cyber-squatter, unfortunately. Which either means paying the squatter exorbitant sums of money, or paying a lawyer the same in the hopes that you’ll get a judge to agree you have legitimate claim to the domain.
14 Duane Kerzic // May 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I’d get the .us domain right away.
15 Fascist Nation // May 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I can never remember Photography is Not a Crime for a blog name when I am telling anyone about this site, but I always remember CarlosMiller.com.
16 Voice of Reason // May 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Note to Dina: You said, “photographyisnotacrime.tv
is available”.
That’s a Tuvalu domain. If I remember correct, they derive a significant chunk of their gross national product from the fact that their TLD is “.tv”. Unless things have changed, you don’t want a “.tv” domain. Those domains are expensive.
17 Edwin // May 8, 2009 at 11:04 AM
There is also the fact that Tuvalu is sinking into the ocean and will cease to exist in the future. With that in mind, ICANN will stop supporting .tv domains as they phase it out. But who knows, because Soviet Union domains, .su are still around and they’ve been gone for years.
18 Voice of Reason // May 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Note to Edwin: You said, “There is also the fact that Tuvalu is sinking into the ocean and will cease to exist in the future”.
Yes. When I double-checked my facts, I saw that. However, I didn’t mention it because the “.tv” TLD will most likely continue to exist. I don’t believe they’ll shut down a TLD that’s as useful as “.tv” (i.e., useful for television sites) when people are willing to pay thousands of dollars per domain name to use it.
19 MixItUp1a // Aug 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Carlos as a fellow photogarpher in a large metropolitian city I have documented various abuses also. As we both know, the camera is a very frieghtening tool in the eyesight of some law enforcement officers, because it’s represent indefinsable evidence of actual abuse when caught in the lens of a camera. I m glad you have this blog to address the 1st admendment rights of freedom of speach.. I caution all photographers to be careful out there and always do what’s right regarding those pictures that expose the wrong side of the law in action
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