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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2021 6:20 PM, Kenneth Finnegan
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<div dir="ltr">Looking at Internet Archive, it looks like <a
href="http://wa8lmf.com" moz-do-not-send="true">wa8lmf.com</a>
has been dead for months if not years with various domain
parking on it:
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<div><a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210609210446/http://www.wa8lmf.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://web.archive.org/web/20210609210446/http://www.wa8lmf.com/</a></div>
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<p>For some years, I used both WA8LMF.com and WA8LMF.net . One
time WA8LMF.com expired and a slimy domain squatter grabbed it
instantly. Not willing to pay the scammer to get it back, I
proceeded to use just WA8LMF.net and forget about the .COM
version. <br>
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<p>[Actually, by the original scheme of things on the Internet, .NET
is more appropriate anyway since I am doing communications
operations on the Internet- not running a commercial business.
Actually, I only used .COM in the early days of the Internet
because so many people at that time thought EVERYTHING on the web
had to end with .COM.] <br>
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<p>I assumed that the squatter would ultimately tire of paying for a
domain as unique and un-saleable as a ham call. It never occurred
to me that someone would actually buy it.....</p>
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<div>So the lesson here is to make sure that you don't let the
registration for any domains you care about expire and sit
unregistered for a long time, because these sorts of sites
will sweep them up if there's any decent number of links to
them... they probably weren't banking on your APRS comment
back in the day, but here we are. </div>
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<div><b>I strongly suspect that this domain registration has
nothing to do with BG0GE accidentally gatewaying their TNC
test runs onto the APRS-IS</b>. I've emailed them directly
to stop I-gating the LMF CD. </div>
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<p>I would have thought the same thing EXCEPT that the BG0GE-6 igate
is now including the WA8LMF.COM domain in their comment.. Also,
his email addy is <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:BG0GE@163.com">BG0GE@163.com</a> . 163.com is one of the
links on the home page of the porn site. <br>
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<p>Again, I am baffled. Why would one want to flog a porn site with
an obscure ham call sign?</p>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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Flying Digipeater!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://WA8LMF.net/FlyingDigi"><http://WA8LMF.net/FlyingDigi></a><br>
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