Decency Reigns

Joelle said during prime time on October 13, 2007

By some miracle, I got a kind and human response from [the wife of the owner of the domains].  She expressed that her husband saw my domain had expired and said “it is a rather typical thing to do to use an expired domain to help less-ranked sites achieve greater rankings”.  Typical, but not ethical and I let her know that she might want to pass that on to her husband.  It also violates many hosts’ terms and conditions. It’s just not cool.  Period.

It’s one thing to snap up the domain. Fine, fine. It’s quite another to leave my content, identity and design up there, but put links to your wife’s blog placed stealthily throughout.  What’s weird is that from the joking and casual way she addressed me, I got the impression she’s read my blog before… it was sort of familiar for response to a formal complaint. Perhaps it was her husband who has read me or maybe it was just a coincidence, but I still think it’s crappy.

But, I do appreciate her nice response and their immediate action in removing my content.  Now I’m just torn: do I remove the previous post because they complied with my request or in the interest of full disclosure do I leave it up?  Hm.  They did comply and I don’t want to be a jerk… what say you?

Update: Decided to edit it for now, leaving the post up. if you want to know who it was, you can always look up who owns YetUpbeat.com or email me to ask.