Posted Feb 26, 2007 at 02:18PM by Ryan A. Listed in: Off Topic, Half-Life 2 Tags: Electronic Arts, Valve Corporation, Wikipedia
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Half-Life - Image 1This 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.


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   by Creighton (Unregistered) - 2007-02-26
 » cyber...

it may have not started out as cybersquatting, but looking at the price tag obviously shows it has turned into it.

   by iPood (Unregistered) - 2007-02-26
 » typo

Typo: Last sentence. Half-Life 2 was released for PC on November 16, 2004.

Yes, the PS3 and X360 ports are due in 2007, but not PC.

Since you sited a wikipedia article on cybersquatting, maybe you should have read the entry on HL2! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_2

Not to flame, just to point out :D

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   by Ge64 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-26
 » *

if you have any gaming knowledge you shouldnt have to look at wikipedia to know that HL2 for PC has been out for ages.

   by neok182 - 2007-02-26
 » .

yea big typo there.

   by h (Unregistered) - 2007-02-26
 » This guy is a piece of sh*t

Who would buy this anyway? Everybody knows the name of the game is Half-Life, and even if you search Half Life in Google (without the hyphen) you get tons of links to official sites, not this bad play. So who would buy this for a million dollars? This guy is just making himself look like an ass



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