My name is Sarah Harpur. I am 29 years old. I am 5’3” and have feet that are wider than they are long. Like a Welsh-Mountain Pony, I am stable on rough terrain. Unlike a Welsh Mountain Pony, I can not carry a 16 stone man on my back over said rough terrain.
Once upon a time, I had a website named after me. It was named after me because I paid for the site and bought it with my own pocket money. I loved this site. It was the place where my half formed, embryonic thoughts developed and grew into beautiful two-headed babies with facial hair and a penchant for cheap vodka. Yes, my children were abominable to some, but they had a right to exist. Some people loved my freakish kids as much as I did.
One day, two years later, I could no longer use my email address that was attached to my domain. To cut a long story short, I did not receive forewarning of my domain’s expiry and it was purchased legally by one, Yoshio Kanazawa.
My website was now written entirely in Japanese. It looks lame as. See?
What has become of my website!
Perhaps the most irritating thing is my old domain is valuable only to me. I would understand the desire to purchase my domain if it was ‘freep0rn.c0m’ or ‘buyonlinecrapforcheap.com’; but my site was based on my name and identity as a human and writer.
Maybe Yoshio Kanazawa incorrectly thought my site got a lot of traffic. Yoshio was wrong. Yoshio could not be more wrong. If Yoshio dressed up like a baby, wore giant nappies and was raised by a house cow, he could not be more wrong. The most traffic my site got was the day it was mentioned in the Sunday Star Times in July 2010. That day, the high point of my online publishing career, saw the site receive a whopping 232 hits. That’s right. THREE figures. Yoshio, you ass, you are barking up the wrong tree.
WordPress suggested I purchase ‘myownwebsite.org’ or ‘myownwebsite.net’, but the confusion that would create would be astronomical. It would only serve to divert traffic to the legal-stealer of my domain, while I got the honour of owning the inferior version of my own domain. WordPress, my friends, you underestimate the level of revenge I seek.
Yoshio Kanazawa did not respond to my polite and heartfelt requests to buy back my site. Yoshio Kanazawa may not even exist.
Yoshio Kanazawa may have purchased my site legally, but there are many things in life that are perfectly legal. It does not make them moral, fair or even good. That domain was a product of MY idea, my intellectual property. And it has not been protected. It pisses me off. Yoshio Kanazawa took something of mine, and it is causing me headaches and eye-twitches.
Yoshio has now forced me to buy the narcissistic domain of http://sarahhharpur.com . I didn’t want to do that. He has left me with no option than be a cheap, self-promoting, self-promoter. He has taken my name, and made it a star of a SHIT website.
Well Yoshio. I have many plans for legal revenge. The first starts here. You purchased my identity. Now I have purchased yours. www.yoshiokanazawa.com is now MINE. It is going to be the crappest website in the world. Dedicated to all things legal, but shit. Just like you, Yoshio Kanazawa, you evil mastermind.
I am determined to cause Yoshio some seriously mild inconvenience. The shit website will be a tribute to Yoshio Kanazawa and other shit things in life.
How can you, as a friend, kind stranger or human help my situation?
- Please don’t visit my old website. I have posted a picture of it. It really is that crap.
- If you have kindly placed links to my old website, please edit this link so it now points to http://sarahharpur.com
- If you could click on my site a couple of times, that would be great. Google is yet to acknowledge its existence, and I would appreciate some help getting my identity back.
- Send in any pictures/stories of things that will help make www.yoshiokanazawa.com the crappest website on the planet. I am going to get the ball rolling with a picture of Celine Dion. Send them to sarah@yoshiokanazawa.com
Thank you very much for your support. Love from Sarah, AKA, DJ Big Sez
