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Old 12-28-2006, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Paralda View Post
A simple way to figure out this information though, is by just asking Dotster who registered that domain.
...or you could do a Whois lookup

While the record for GuildWarsUtopia is not the same as GuildWars or GuildWarsFactions, it is consistant with GuildWarsNightfall.

At first, I thought I was following a bad lead. Going to www.guildwarsutopia.com leads to a site that advertises things related to "Sex" and "Dungeons & Dragons Online". Why would NCsoft / ArenaNet do something like that?

My guess - they didn't expect us to find the site. The ads seem to be listed automatically, based on words in the domain name. It's just a placeholder page. Plus, I'm thinking the founders got tired of registering domain names. HA! (Don't forget about this annual expense - http://www.triforge.com.) If Guild Wars does release 10 Chapters, and registers at least three domains for each chapter, that's 30 domain names a year. At $15 per domain name, that's $450 per year. I suppose that's not a lot of money, but it does add up. Why spend that money when Mom and Pop NCsoft can do it for you?
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