Toss www.tungstenc.com into your browser, and you’d expect to end up at Palm’s Tungsten C page, right? Wrong. That address currently points straight to Sony’s CLIÉ Handheld page.
At first glance, it looks like an underhanded attempt by Sony to draw potential Palm customers to Sony’s Web site, but it’s not so clear-cut when you query Tucows about the owner of the domain registration for tungstenc.com.
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Whois info for, tungstenc.com:Registrant:
MFSH Associates
14726 ramona ave #300
chino, ca 91710
USDomain name: TUNGSTENC.COM
Administrative Contact:
H, George eyeod@alorica.com
14726 ramona ave #300
chino, ca 91710
US
416-555-1122
Technical Contact:
H, George eyeod@alorica.com
14726 ramona ave #300
chino, ca 91710
US
416-555-1122Registration Service Provider:
Domain Registration – Free Domain Forwarding,
Parking & Email, support@eyeondomain.com
(818) 365 0664
http://eyeondomain.com
This company may be contacted for domain
login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain
support questions.Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 05-May-2003.
Record expires on 04-May-2004.
Record Created on 4-May-2003.Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ALORICA.COM 12.31.184.7
NS2.ALORICA.COM 12.31.184.8
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Is “H, George” a cover designed to maintain plausible deniability for Sony, or is it someone else entirely with his own agenda? I’m curious what Palm’s legal department will make of it.
Update [2003-08-07 10:41] Probably not Sony. As of right now, tungstenc.com is pointing back to a thread on ClieSource that discusses the tungstenc.com issue. Looks like someone’s having a bit of fun at the expense of Sony, Palm, and the Palm OS community.
It’s all fun and games until Sony’s lawyers get involved.
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I know this was posted a while back, BUT Alorica is one of Sony’s outsources for their technical and customer service calls. They are headquartered in Chino, Ca.
Ah, so it could be Sony being underhanded, after all. Well, all the shiny has worn off this scandal, so it’s fallen out of the public view at this point. Though Google managed to bring someone here to comment, so thanks to technology, it’s a lot harder to bury things like this under stacks of dusty newsprint in someone’s archive.