CAMRA taken over by Speed CAMERAs?

I have, for the last 2 years, run a website for my local (Northamptonshire) branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). I don't have a beard, or wear sandals, I just like the taste of Real Ale and know a bit about HTML and PHP. Anyway, the site is named (appropriately) Northants CAMRA.

The website resides at

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I have recently found out that the local Safety Camera Association (speed cameras by any other name) have registered the name Northants CAMERA and have applied to my service provider to take over the URL. I didn't even get an e-mail or a phone call. They could have been reasonable, even asked for a "disambiguation" link on the homepage, but no.

tl;dr - someone nicked my domain name.

-=# Ben Coulson #=-

Reply to
Ben Coulson
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Quite apart from being obnoxiously stupid by the camera people (wtf do they want a mispeeled sitename, anyway ?) I'd think that's rather bad behaviour by the ISP, and a good reason to not give them business. Who are they ?

Reply to
Richard Robinson

The domain name itself is still registered to you

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funny the author of the "SCAM" website is a certain Ben Coulson, ah yes, what's the date ...

Reply to
Sunny Bard

Ben Coulson :

Is this relevant?

Reply to
Mike Barnes

Good one. If it was an April Fool's joke then I fell for it! I was quite indignant that someone had gazumped you.

Reply to
Offramp

*applause*
Reply to
Richard Robinson

Good effort, Mr Coulson. Have a shedpoint.

Reply to
bobharvey

Google's had a go at it too

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Brian

Reply to
Brian Howie

Next year the Northern Ant Appreciation Society's webcam?

Reply to
Esra Sdrawkcab

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