Guest Lucas Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 This site was not run by these people in 2002... I would know... I was on the staff for gamingsource.net and knew the webmaster personally. Whoever this is, is a fraud. They never owned it until about 1-2 months ago. Case Closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 So no one to comment on this... I can verify it... Well I used to be able to... I don't know about now since it is now owned by someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Okies... Stop spamming the forums with your pathetic nonsense. Here is an archive that contains all revisions made to the index of this site back to 2002. Here is the same sort of archive, but for the site of the current administrator, one Robin Scott, aka Dark0ne. Gaming Source was established by Dark0ne in 2003, as a way to fund the bandwidth required to run his Morrowind fansite -- which would evolve into the Morrowind Source site you see today -- by running a hosting service. Many fansites have since recieved hosting services from Great Scott, including The Imperial Library, and, for a brief amount of time, TheLys. As someone who has been part of the Morrowind Source community for a year and a half now, I can say that, yes, this is a completely legitimate operation. All of these hosted sites, wayback pages, and forum members didn't just pop up out of nowhere to make you feel as if the original gamingsource.net had been "stolen." Indeed, it couldn't have been "stolen," as the original author of gamingsource.net hasn't had any legal responsibility over it since he sold it to an advertising firm somewhere between the summer of '02 and January '03. ...So then we have the gamingsource.net domain going to the highest bidder, and Robin Scott, who wants to hide the fact that his hosting service is based in the United Kingdom, and understandably so, because many people hate the British. Mr. Scott buys said domain, and, in doing so, opens his hosting service up to all sorts of people who wouldn't have recieved his services before, seeing as how they hate the British. The site that took up this domain way back when is gone. It has been for two years, and quite possibly two and a half years. There is very little chance of the original author wanting to set his site back up again, much less wanting to do so and being frightened off by the fact that his domain, which he willingly put up for sale, has been sold to a flaming Englishman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Dark0ne Posted December 27, 2004 Community Manager Share Posted December 27, 2004 Apart from a few (major) revisions to MB's comments, its a pretty accurate history. Although GS was from 2002, MWSource was from 2003. As MB has said, the original owner of the domain GamingSource.net sold the domain to a advertising firm and/or sold it through said advertising firm where we negotiated a price for it. The reasoning behind upgrading from the .co.uk domain to the .net domain is two-fold:(1) Gaming Source may be operated by a British citizen but it is not UK selective and the servers are actually located in Texas, where we have a good friend working as our technician and "hands and eyes" between us and the DC. (2) Gaming Source is a network of websites encompassing a number of games and genres -- .net will now be our preferred TLD since thats what our sites are -- networked. And I feel, at this current point at time, the British are far more respected on this globe than the Americans. MB you tard :P Your post also alerted me to the fact I'd setup the forum permissions wrong -- if you would like to post again (an apology would be good) then you'll need to register. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Did this query (which I notice was just removed :P ) come from the same IP address by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Dark0ne Posted December 27, 2004 Community Manager Share Posted December 27, 2004 Did this query come from the same IP address by any chance? Did you really have to ask? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 http://mwsource.com/forum/style_images/mp-blue%5B1%5D/p_up.gif Dark0ne: And I feel, at this current point at time, the British are far more respected on this globe than the Americans. People hate the UK, as shown by my Google links, regardless of whether or not they hate the US. You play dirty pool, old man, and I don't mean the sort that involves goats and assorted bondage gear. ...And speaking of pools and goats, does anybody want to put in a wager for how long it'll take for gamingsource.net's built-in fanboy to get goated once he sets up an account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 Hello, First of all, It has come to my attention that one of my former staff members from the old gamingsource.net has come across your site, and unbewillingest to me has in a way spammed your forums about you "stealing" the old gamingsource network. I'd like to apologize on his behalf for his comments in the forum. However, I would like to explain some issues: I started Gaming Source Network a few years ago, and I had it hosted on the cheatman.com servers. After my site grew rapidly in popularity, the webmaster at cheatman network illegally, and without any notification, sold my site domain, to the auction company, which you obviously bought the domain name from. In a way, I can understand why my former staff member called the site "stolen," but this has nothing to do with you because you legally bought it from the auction company. However, I do believe that you are "expanding" the dates in which you were the legal owner of the domain gamingsource.net (2002) But you owned gamingsource.co.uk for longer. If you don't mind me asking, when did you purchase the domain name from the auction site, and how much did you pay for it? I would like to know this because, I want to know how much the "Cheatman" sold it for. I realize that you did everything legally, and this is more between cheatman and myself. Once again I'd like to apologize and thank you for your patience. Shaun Nagy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Dark0ne Posted December 27, 2004 Community Manager Share Posted December 27, 2004 People hate the UK, as shown by my Google links, regardless of whether or not they hate the US The relevence was in the fact "people" hate the US more than the UK which would negate your reasoning for changing from gamingsource.co.uk to gamingsource.net -- not whether "people" hated the UK or not. However, I do believe that you are "expanding" the dates in which you were the legal owner of the domain gamingsource.net (2002) But you owned gamingsource.co.uk for longer. Gaming Source was developed in November of 2002 -- irrespective of whether I bought the domain a few months back Gaming Source has been running since that date. There are many other "Gaming Source" sites out there -- none of which are half as big as the operation currently being run here but they all have their own independent creation dates also. Don't wish to offend, but your Gaming Source seems to have died out long ago -- is this really an issue? If you don't mind me asking, when did you purchase the domain name from the auction site, and how much did you pay for it? I would like to know this because, I want to know how much the "Cheatman" sold it for. The domain was purchased last month. How much for I won't say. I realize that you did everything legally, and this is more between cheatman and myself. Once again I'd like to apologize and thank you for your patience. No problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 The .net TLD is recognized by the Internet Assigned Names Authority as a generic TLD, not a ccTLD; that is, the .net domain is not native to any country by design. IANA lists .net as being maintained by a corporation named Verisign, which, to my knowledge, does not deny TLD membership on the basis of server location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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