Men's Memes: Peter Croughs and the loss of my domain name

Friday, July 11, 2008

Peter Croughs and the loss of my domain name

Last week, the domain name I've owned since 2004 - www.cooltools4men.com - suddenly disapeared. I didn't know how this happened as I thought my registration of the URL lasted another year, and I haven't had any emails warning me that I need to renew. Anyway, it looked like someone else has grabbed the domain name.

A bit of detective work has revealed what happened: I've been the victim of a cybersquatter called Peter Croughs, who goes around grabbing domain names just as they come up for renewal, then tries to sell them back to the original owner at great expense.

Why did I loose the domain in the first place? Because the domain registration company didn't auto-renew or warn me at all that the renewal date was approaching (as they were supposed to)

Apparently I'm not the first person this has happened to:

http://tinyurl.com/6l4xkv

Well, there is no way I'm going to be paying this slimeball a penny of my money to get my domain name back. So I've decided to buy www.CoolToolsForMen.com, which should be up and running early next week. The name is similar enough for me to carry on with as little disruption as possible. Plus I'm planning on one or two improvements. So at the end of the day things will end up better after this incident, not worse.

If you know anyone who might read my site, or if you are a member on any other men's fora where there might be men who read my site, please let them know the situation (perhaps by copying and pasting this notice).

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Yes I saw your site vanish.I am glad this was for the reason you said rather than an unexplained disappearance. I look at your blog most days and have done for several years. I can over say that over those years I seen any substantial reversal in feminism. Rather it seems to become ever more entretched.; 2:35 pm
Anonymous said...: I'm glad you re-found the site. May I ask how you re-found it?; 3:01 pm
Anonymous said...: I just clicked on the link in AH (my usual way in) and arrived at the new site .; 2:18 pm
Anonymous said...: Would you like something like "cooltools4men.mgtow.net"?; 1:13 am
The Dapper Swindler said...: How are you not more angry? I'd be suing for breach of contract and demanding the old domain back.; 9:18 pm
Unknown said...: I had the exact same thing happen to me by the same a**hole just a week ago. I've have my site for a couple years, I even updated my account from GoDaddy, but then they told me that not only did I have to update my account, I had to go into that domain name specifically and change the credit card on that. This guy is scum. I have ran my entire business through my site for years, finally had some great Google rankings and a client base. Once my website was gone, my email was down to because they were tied together, so any past clients that I wasn't able to email can not get a hold of me now and I can not notify them of the url change.; 9:42 pm
Anonymous said...: Hi Chado. I'm very sorry to hear that. It must be even more angering when its your livlihood under threat.

Think creatively. There must be some way you could re-connect with at least some of your clients? Would they frequent any other sites that you could ask to put up a message re-directing to your new site?; 10:05 pm
Anonymous said...: Hello, My name is strange enough - Peter Croughs - but not the guy who baught your domain. So please rectify your blog and give more info about this person so innocent people stay out of harm's way. TIA; 1:26 pm

Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."