Hepcat and I just did a little research at Who Is, an Internet function that allows you to search domain name registration. We found information about Fucked in Park Slope and it looks like the domain name was created by Erica Reitman, who runs Fucked in Park Slope, on October 26, 2008 but it expired on October 26, 2010 because Reitman forgot (or decided not to) renew the registration.
A company by the name of Enom, a domain registrar, which has a subsidiary called Acquire this Name, scooped up the domain today. They’re the one’s who put up the porn site in place of Reitman’s site. According to Who Is, they’ll have it until October 26, 2011.
It seems that the domain name Effed in Park Slope was registered with Enom and there have been warnings about that domain service. In a sense, they’re holding Effed in Park Slope hostage. For the right price, Reitman can probably get her domain name back. The following is information from DNXpert, the domain news blog.
If you have an Enom retailer account or sub-account then you need to be aware that you run a risk of losing your expiring domains.
Most domainers set their domains on auto renew, in order to not risk forgetting the domain expiration date and losing that domain. If your payment method is via credit card you might run into problems with your auto renewal at Enom.
Enom is not allowed to store the credit card CVV ( last three digits on the back of your credit card ) so on random occassions when Enom attempts auto renewal of your domain, the credit card provider ( your bank ) rejects the attempt. Your auto renewal fails, and you lose your domain. The only plausible way to avoid this is to login into Enom every month and enter the CVV… which means you might as well track your expiration date and renew manually.
So, make sure you double check your expirations if you have domains at Enom.
Stay tuned for more information…
Posted by FiPS via Twitter 15 hours ago:
effedparkslope:
ICYMI: fuckedinparkslope.com is now a porn site, so if you want FIPS in the next day or so, go here: fuckedinparkslope.squarespace.com
I think there’s a delicious irony in that a site with a needlessly vulgar name has been changed to a porn site! Maybe she’ll use a non-R rated name now.
And I think the post above is wrong. If a site registration expires, it does not magically go to another person, somebody re-registers the name. So Enom can’t just ‘give back the name’, unless they’re the ones who re-registered it as a way of applying pressure. Reitman’s site may truly be F&**ed in Park Slope.
I think you’re presenting wrong information here. Enom is also a domain name registrar, and as GoDaddy is for this site, Enom is the domain name registrar for FiPS. They’re not holding the domain name hostage. They’re simply doing what they also do when negligent site owners allow their domain name registration to lapse.
If Erica acts properly and quickly, Enom will release it to her for the registration fee. They’re not going to “have to pay the right price” as you so allege.
Sloppy work here and you’re slandering Enom.