Buy HalfLife.com for a million bucks

This one bit is a little tricky. It came to our attention that there’s a site called HalfLife.com. Now this should not be confused with Valve’s Half-Life.com – but that’s exactly where the issue lies.

The owner of the site, not the one intended for the game, is currently selling the domain name for US$ 1,000,000. Immediately, the idea cybersquatting comes to mind.

To those who are not in the know, cybersquatting is “defined by the U.S. federal law as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else” (Wikipedia).

We went to the site and found out that “HalfLife” is actually a “A Musical Comedy About the End of the Universe”. It strengthens the thought that the owner is indeed cybersquatting, yes? Well, not really, especially after you make a whois search.

HalfLife has been in used since December of 1998, just one month after the original game was released. If you ask us, it looks like an amusing coincidence more than anything. It would be good to know, though, how all these pans out in the future.

On an almost completely different note, Half-Life 2 (PC, 360, PS3) will be coming out by winter of 2007.

This one bit is a little tricky. It came to our attention that there’s a site called HalfLife.com. Now this should not be confused with Valve’s Half-Life.com – but that’s exactly where the issue lies.

The owner of the site, not the one intended for the game, is currently selling the domain name for US$ 1,000,000. Immediately, the idea cybersquatting comes to mind.

To those who are not in the know, cybersquatting is “defined by the U.S. federal law as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else” (Wikipedia).

We went to the site and found out that “HalfLife” is actually a “A Musical Comedy About the End of the Universe”. It strengthens the thought that the owner is indeed cybersquatting, yes? Well, not really, especially after you make a whois search.

HalfLife has been in used since December of 1998, just one month after the original game was released. If you ask us, it looks like an amusing coincidence more than anything. It would be good to know, though, how all these pans out in the future.

On an almost completely different note, Half-Life 2 (PC, 360, PS3) will be coming out by winter of 2007.