Domain confusion
Monday, February 18th, 2008 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoI have owned my website at tsaiko.com for almost seven years now. Granted not much was up until about four years ago, but I still owned it. Not too long ago, someone started a fan club for some sort of sports team in Hawaii (football? It looks like football). Their name? The Tsai-kos. They even went so far as to get the domain name tsaikos.com and have a large forum set up about their team.
I'm sure you can all see where this is going.
For the last couple months, I have been getting email for adminsname@tsaiko.com which of course gets routed to my email. They really want to send it to adminsname@tsaikos.com. I've politely emailed back the people who do more than send a "test" email informing them that they have made an error and that I own tsaiko.com. I only recently figured out that they were attempting to reach tsaikos.com instead.
Here's my dilemma: should I contact the admin of tsaikos.com and let them know that some of their forum members are sending me emails by mistake? Should I just continue to politely reply to the emails I do receive and inform them that they have reached the wrong domain? Normally I'd just ignore it, but I'm getting 4-5 emails a week some about planning, setting up events, and some with more personal details. I don't expect any contact with the admins to stop the emails completely (I'm not that optimistic), I just want them to know there's a disconnect and that they might need to remind their forum members to stick the s on the end of the domain. Otherwise important stuff is going to get lost.
So I open it to my friend's list: what would you do?
I'm sure you can all see where this is going.
For the last couple months, I have been getting email for adminsname@tsaiko.com which of course gets routed to my email. They really want to send it to adminsname@tsaikos.com. I've politely emailed back the people who do more than send a "test" email informing them that they have made an error and that I own tsaiko.com. I only recently figured out that they were attempting to reach tsaikos.com instead.
Here's my dilemma: should I contact the admin of tsaikos.com and let them know that some of their forum members are sending me emails by mistake? Should I just continue to politely reply to the emails I do receive and inform them that they have reached the wrong domain? Normally I'd just ignore it, but I'm getting 4-5 emails a week some about planning, setting up events, and some with more personal details. I don't expect any contact with the admins to stop the emails completely (I'm not that optimistic), I just want them to know there's a disconnect and that they might need to remind their forum members to stick the s on the end of the domain. Otherwise important stuff is going to get lost.
So I open it to my friend's list: what would you do?
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Date: 2/18/08 05:34 pm (UTC)