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So I was doing domain research earlier tonight and found a sick list of domains owned by Full Tilt Poker (like... thousands of domains). Most were sensible purchases (ie, fulltiltpoker.com misspellings). Some were weird. Some were downright hilarious.

Exhibit A: guess who owns the domain www.jimmyfrickepoker.com? Righto, Full Tilt.

Some of their other "fun" domains:

www.sorelmizzi.net, www.chrisvaughnpoker.com, www.ansolutepoker.com, www.hallywoodpoker.com

This is a quasi x-post from my blog, the full version is here.

EDIT: oh yea, and from the end of my blog post:

"Since I’m sure this post will end up in the hands of Full Tilt execs, I’d also like to let you guys know that Costa Rica is accepting domain registrations for .cr domains. You can register them here. As of the writing of this post (12/10/2008 @ 10:30 pm CST), fulltiltpoker.cr is still available. Let’s see if Full Tilt can beat one of my enterprising blog readers to that domain."

Last edited by N 82 50 24; 12-11-2008 at 01:01 AM.

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12-11-2008 , 12:53 AM

uclabruinz

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Whoa.

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12-11-2008 , 12:57 AM

blankoblanco

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hahaha wtf

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12-11-2008 , 01:03 AM

sketchy1

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there's some random person who owns sketchy1.com along with a lot of other random online poker screennames. i can't remember specific ones off the top of my head but the guy who owns mine:

Haritos, George greektycoon@comcast.net
JustAddChips LLC
1108 East End Ave
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15218

owns a bunch of others

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12-11-2008 , 01:04 AM

N 82 50 24

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So here's another aspect...

ansolutepoker.com is an alias which means the URL will remain the same in the address bar

on the other hand, domains like mattmatrospoker.com are set up as forwards and they'll actually go to Full Tilt's site.

So not only are they attempting to profit off of other poker site's brand names via typos, they're also actively/intentionally attempting to trick new players (maybe someone who saw an AP ad on TV) into thinking that the site is actually Absolute Poker's website. Oh, and I asked Matt Matros about this -- he had no idea they owned mattmatrospoker.com.

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12-11-2008 , 01:05 AM

mlagoo

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hahaha

you rock nat

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12-11-2008 , 01:05 AM

N 82 50 24

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Originally Posted by sketchy1

Oh yea, there are tons of domain squatters. Very normal because of all the scumbags out there who attempt to profit off of someone else's name.

But Mr Haritos also didn't call you a "freak and a very weird dude" last year.

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12-11-2008 , 01:05 AM

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yea justinrollo.com/net/org are owned by the same guy sketchy.

fulltiltpoker.am and .tm (i think tm) are also availble.

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12-11-2008 , 01:08 AM

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That guy owns my name too. I don't understand how he is profiting from them because very few online players have their own site. Unless one of them binks a huge score I don't see them dying to have their domain.

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12-11-2008 , 01:13 AM

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I remember a post in the old Deuces Cracked subforum of 2+2 which showed that one of the misspellings of deucescracked.com went to the ftp homepage

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12-11-2008 , 01:19 AM

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JP OSU

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How do I find out if someone owns my name?

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12-11-2008 , 01:22 AM

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N 82 50 24

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Originally Posted by JP OSU

How do I find out if someone owns my name?

Hahah, I'm not trying to be mean, I just HAVE to use this site. It's too awesome.

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=...asonpotter.com

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12-11-2008 , 01:28 AM

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lol awesome.

i think the part about them leaving the url's of typo'd competitors has to be the sketchiest part.

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12-11-2008 , 01:33 AM

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Duuuuuuuuuude. Full Tilt has weird business plans ahead.

casinoriotijuana.com

Would any of you guys go play at a place called Casino Rio Tijuana?

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12-11-2008 , 01:34 AM

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shaundeeb

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guy from tworags bought a bunch that related to myself and wc.

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12-11-2008 , 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by N 82 50 24

Hahah, I'm not trying to be mean, I just HAVE to use this site. It's too awesome.

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=...asonpotter.com

Lol, that site is funny...

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12-11-2008 , 01:54 AM

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u better still have ys.com & mil locked up

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12-11-2008 , 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by N 82 50 24

Duuuuuuuuuude. Full Tilt has weird business plans ahead.

casinoriotijuana.com

Would any of you guys go play at a place called Casino Rio Tijuana?

That's not the only thing I'd do at Casino Rio Tijuana.

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12-11-2008 , 02:29 AM

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A year later and Howard Lederer is still looking for ways to own Gobbo, by any definition of the word.

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12-11-2008 , 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Bond18

A year later and Howard Lederer is still looking for ways to own Gobbo, by any definition of the word.

bond18.net
bond18.org
bond18blog.com
bond18fulltilt.com
bond18fulltilt.net
bond18fulltilt.org
bond18fulltiltpoker.com
bond18fulltiltpoker.net
bond18fulltiltpoker.org
bond18poker.com
bond18poker.net
bond18poker.org
bond18pokerblog.com
tonydunst.net
tonydunstpoker.com

But I don't really find anything weird about that considering your relationship with them. If I was them, I would have bought up the domains above as well...

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12-11-2008 , 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by sketchy1

what a weirdo. he has augie99.com!! bad investment imo.

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12-11-2008 , 02:45 AM

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what is the value of owning all these sites?

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12-11-2008 , 02:48 AM

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registrant-firstname: Jim
registrant-lastname: Kalvin
registrant-street1: 7028 Applewood Drive
registrant-pcode: 53719
registrant-state: WI
registrant-city: Madison
registrant-ccode: US
registrant-phone: +1.6088331522
registrant-fax: +1.6088331522
registrant-email: jkapplied@aol.com

WTF THE DUDE WHO OWNS ME ISN'T EVEN THE GUY FROM PITTSBURGH SDFKJEKWFOIQWEJF

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12-11-2008 , 02:48 AM

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Someone's taken www.mortallimit.com, which annoys me. I'm not good with this sort of thing, but a search revealed some sort of connection to "wehostwebsites.com." Bah. At least there's some sort of perverse pleasure in someone's having squatted my PokerStars name.

--Nate