CplTony wrote:
Most company filters block out ripstick.com.......they're smart
That's because of the OLD Ripstick.com. It was actually lumped in with the soft pr0n site Ripstick.net at one time. True story...
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At one point I actually owned all three primary domains for my callsign... Ripstick.com, Ripstick.net, and Ripstick.org. Then I had two different companies wanting me to sell to them Ripstick.com. The first company already owned Ripstik.com, but far too many of their customers were hitting my site, Ripstick.com instead. I had no interest in selling, so I told him I'd consider putting up a link to help redirect those poor lost souls. Strangely, that company 'borrowed' a font that I used predominantly on my site... "Chiller". My website was mainly dedicated to annual Halloween parties my friends and I hosted back in the mid to late 90's, and the "Chiller" font was used heavily throughout. I found it strange that a sports & fitness company in California would choose to use that font for their logo... but they did.
A few years later, around 2003 or 2004 I transformed my website Ripstick.com into a completely different looking site with a new logo and everything. Oddly enough, that same company copied my signature logo almost exactly, and that really didn't sit well with me. I felt as if they were trying to steal my identity. Anyone who knows me and has seen my handwriting knows that this is the exact style of lettering (and I
mean exact) I've used for 15+ years when writing out my callsign. Eventually I simply forgot about it. I see that their site still sports it today (which really feels strange to me), along with a few remnants of their older logo with the "Chiller" font. I should find my original dated sketches and final logos and post them as a comparison (after I get to posting my DragonCon photos that is!
).
Anyhow, the second company was a Japanese pr0n company whose real name was 'Lipstick', but there is no letter "L" in Japanese, so they use "R" instead. And because the Japanese do not have separate sounds for "L" and "R", they wanted Ripstick.com. Again, I didn't want to give up my Ripstick.com, so I let them have Ripstick.net instead. I figured it would end up playing into my favor anyways and I would eventually get more web traffic. Boy did I, along with more than I bargained for.
Partly because of this, I ended up taking my web site down for a while. But shortly after DragonCon in 2005, I put up a new splash page expecting to give it another revamp. Sadly, it's been in a state of "Coming Soon!" ever since. (sigh)
But 2008 is a new year... and I have a whole new set of plans.
So now you know... the
rest of the story.
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