Got a metal detecting website?

[sa...@ukdetecting.com]

Hi all,

If you have a metal detecting web site and are finding visitors and
customers a little thin on the ground then why not buy a hot detecting
domain-name with an existing high profile and redirect the 1000's of people
who click on them to your site.

We have for sale:

www.regtons.com
www.regtons.co.uk
www.ukdetectornet.com

email sa...@ukdetecting.com if interested..

[Brian & Mo']

<sa...@ukdetecting.com> wrote in message
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From Brian & Mo', creators of UK DETECTOR NET

What you are suggesting is highly unethical. It is not only cybersquatting
of the worst kind but to promote the sale of the names, deliberately
purchased to be confusingly similar to already established trade or service
names such as UK DETECTOR NET or Regton, to bring unsuspecting visitors to a
newly formed web site is a direct trademark infringement.

In addition you have currently linked the domains you have for sale to your
own web site i.e. ukdetecting.com. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound.
Myself and Mo' set up UK DETECTOR NET in 1995 and have worked hard for the
past six years to keep the site up-to-date and ever-changing. We do not get
paid for this work, we started it on our own and continue to run it on our
own. Advertisers pay us a small sum which helps offset our costs. Our site
exists because of our hard work over the years and the loyalty and goodwill
of the thousands of detectorists who have been visiting UK DETECTOR NET for
the past six years or so. We do not mind competition and, over the years,
there have been a great many 'fabulous new UK detecting web sites' most of
which died a death after six months work by the owners. But, we will not
allow you to 'steal' unsuspecting visitors to our site by such underhand,
sneaky methods.

We will be informing Nigel Ingram of Regton of your devious business
practises and will be writing to you on a personal level. We will be
requesting that this unsavoury, underhand sale of these domains is stopped
immediately and the links to your site from those domains broken
immediately.

We apologise to the members of this newsgroup for the length of this
posting. We know many of you and like us, you will know that most people in
our great hobby are fair and square. We all trust and respect each other
even the dealers are our friends. We ask that you treat all future postings
of this nature with the contempt they deserve.

Good Hunting to all
Brian & Mo'
br...@ukdetectornet.co.uk

[e...@ukdetecting.com]

What a sneaky way to sell a metal detecting domain name - on a public metal
detecting forum!!

The name is for sale as it is surplus to our requirements - an oportunitiy
for you and no ones said you can't have it.

To my knowledge you have not approached us to buy it or asked what we want
for it!!

Sorry that you have taken ofŁence.

Ed

NCMD Suck
www.UKdetecting.com

[Graham Healy]

Well said Brian and Mo

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"Brian & Mo'" <br...@ukdetectornet.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Colin Irvine]

I will back the team that brought me so much enjoyable reading up here in
Scotland in the nineties with the Red Rocket!

So I hope you sort this ROCKET OUT!!

All the best Todd
A Glasgow Relic Hunter

[Dan Holdsworth]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 07:48:53 +0100, Brian & Mo'
<br...@ukdetectornet.co.uk>

was popularly supposed to have said:

>
><sa...@ukdetecting.com> wrote in message
>news:9dccca$3do$1...@plutonium.btinternet.com...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If you have a metal detecting web site and are finding visitors and
>> customers a little thin on the ground then why not buy a hot detecting
>> domain-name with an existing high profile and redirect the 1000's of
>people
>> who click on them to your site.
>>
>> We have for sale:
>>
>> www.regtons.com
>> www.regtons.co.uk
>> www.ukdetectornet.com

[...]

>What you are suggesting is highly unethical. It is not only cybersquatting
>of the worst kind but to promote the sale of the names, deliberately
>purchased to be confusingly similar to already established trade or service
>names such as UK DETECTOR NET or Regton, to bring unsuspecting visitors to a
>newly formed web site is a direct trademark infringement.

The powers which regulate the namespace on the Internet have, of late, shown
a remarkable degree of commonsense when confronted with persons like this.

Usually, the squatter gets evicted post haste.

[...]

>We will be informing Nigel Ingram of Regton of your devious business
>practises and will be writing to you on a personal level. We will be
>requesting that this unsavoury, underhand sale of these domains is stopped
>immediately and the links to your site from those domains broken
>immediately.
>
>We apologise to the members of this newsgroup for the length of this
>posting. We know many of you and like us, you will know that most people in
>our great hobby are fair and square. We all trust and respect each other
>even the dealers are our friends. We ask that you treat all future postings
>of this nature with the contempt they deserve.

[...]

The bloke's just another name-squatter. If he cannot show a legitimate use
for the names, then he'll probably be refundedhis money and kicked off.

I would also like to remind him that the *.org domains are reserved for
non-profitmaking organisations, and for personal domains, so I don't
think that Regton's Metaldetectors would be so interested in it anyway.

--
Dan Holdsworth PhD da...@supanet.com
By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java
do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking
becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion

[DAVE OWENS]

<sa...@ukdetecting.com> wrote in message
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> This chap should put his head between his legs and Kiss his Arse good by.
Big Dave SLCMDC
>
>
>
>

[sa...@ukdetecting.com]

'Never argue with an idiot - onlookers can't always tell the difference.'

"DAVE OWENS" <SONW...@CABLEINET.CO.UK> wrote in message
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[Jim Sewell]

> > > If you have a metal detecting web site and are finding visitors and
> > > customers a little thin on the ground then why not buy a hot detecting
> > > domain-name with an existing high profile and redirect the 1000's of
> > people
> > > who click on them to your site.

SOD THAT......
Stick your links on the detecting smartgroup FOR FREE, and the 950+
members will see you there ANYWAY.
Why nick other peoples business names though ???
There are plenty of BETTER domain names still free out there on the web....

BE ORIGINAL !

Jim

--
Find out why 950+ people are using the INTERNATIONAL detecting
smartgroup....

http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/detecting

[e...@ukdetecting.com]

...or stick 'em on www.UKdetecting.com 4 free...

A quality domain-name is always an asset in the sprawling mess that is the
internet.

[detect...@gmail.com]

I know this is an old post but I have only just this minute seen it.

Me and a mate bought ukdetecting.com just last week and are currently in the process of building the site... Funnily enough its actually going to be about metal detecting, and not a domain names for sale site.

I would just like to make it clear that we have, and never have had NO CONNECTIONS whatsoever to any websites, persons, or businesses etc connected to ANY previous owners of ukdetecting.com

We are just two ordinary blokes that like metal detecting who want to build a website about it. . . and hopefully, in the future, sell a few detectors & accessories.

We're hoping the original poster hasn't given our new domain name a crap reputation before we have even started... It's hard enough learning how to build a website as it is :)

Thanks

pete
ukdetecting.com