Sid Meier's Pirates! Website

Asmodean · September 8, 2003, 12:35

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

BeBro · September 8, 2003, 13:09

Great popups

FrustratedPoet · September 8, 2003, 13:23

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.

Harry Seldon · September 8, 2003, 14:46

Too bad for fansites, eh?

vovan · September 8, 2003, 15:32

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!

Asmodean · September 8, 2003, 16:03

Hmmm....why not:

www.sidmeierspirates.gov

or even

www.sidmeierspirates.ru

Asmodean

FrustratedPoet · September 8, 2003, 17:22

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!

/me is always right.

vovan · September 8, 2003, 17:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Asmodean
www.sidmeierspirates.ru

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

The Rusty Gamer · September 14, 2003, 04:29

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

Urban Ranger · September 14, 2003, 04:32

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.

DrSpike · September 14, 2003, 07:00

Wow you guys are really bored.

Asmodean · September 14, 2003, 11:48

Nah...not bored. Just posting about "other games".

Asmodean

mrmitchell · September 14, 2003, 13:24

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.

MichaeltheGreat · September 14, 2003, 18:47

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.

Rasbelin · September 15, 2003, 05:23

I.e. the owners of ACS must be arrogant as they don't obey the actual TLD policies.

Skanky Burns · September 15, 2003, 05:28

Whats the bet anyone here could find over a dozen sites that also break this "commandment"?

Besides, Poly is part of the net structure.

DrSpike · September 15, 2003, 09:54

Quote:

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

Besides, Poly is part of the net structure.

Hear hear!

Asmodean · September 15, 2003, 11:12

As we've already proved in a thread in the community forums, Apolyton practically owns the internet.

Asmodean

Oerdin · September 15, 2003, 13:16

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.

vovan · September 15, 2003, 14:30

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"?

Harry Seldon · September 15, 2003, 14:49

Maybe a concerted assault on an ontopic forum would say their opinions. Mwa ha hahahaahmhahaha!

Asmodean · September 15, 2003, 15:09

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

Harry Seldon · September 15, 2003, 16:38

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.

vovan · September 15, 2003, 17:00

Ah, yes, I can see it now

MattH · September 15, 2003, 17:02

Dammit! You made me look at the forum listing!

DrSpike · September 15, 2003, 17:17

Nice, Vovansim.

rah · September 15, 2003, 18:13

You made me look too.

Shadowstrike · September 15, 2003, 19:13

What the heck would one do in "Chess- Creation"? Make new versions of Chess?

vovan · September 15, 2003, 20:38

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.

Urban Ranger · September 15, 2003, 23:33

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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