Originally Posted By: Houjun
Originally Posted By: Lurkily
All the other game sites are in the format of "html://www.ldw.com/GameName.html", not the format of "http://www.GameName.com/". This makes since, because it signifies that they are probably only paying for one domain and one server.


Lurkily, did you forget about these which are owned by LDW as well? \:\)

http://www.fishtycoon.com/
http://www.planttycoon.com/
http://www.virtualvillagers.com/
Actually, I've never been to those sites. When linking from the LDW's main page, LDW.com, the link was http://www.ldw.com/fishtycoon.html or a variant of that. I didn't investigate further than that, so I guess it's my mistake.
Originally Posted By: Miyazaki
Yeah. So the website is http://www.bugtycoon.com
But there is no game called "Bug Tycoon". So the same website will appear.
I still think Bugtycoon's being parked is not a sound indication. I just looked up several random URLS. Every single plain-english URL I tried to look up was reserved. (I left out several sites that I tried that were already websites.) Two of them were advertising the domain that the page was on as being for sale. Never once during this process did I hit a domain that wasn't registered. Among the URLs I found reserved were:
  • randomsite.com
  • nonexistent.com
  • watchthehair.com
  • butterflytycoon.com
  • cattycoon.com
  • puppytycoon.com
Parking of un-used domain names is just too cheap and too common for me to put much faith in the reservation of the domain name being a hint to what's coming.

Every single plain-english URL I tried to look up was reserved. Most of them were advertising the domain that the page was on as being for sale. Never once during this process did I hit a domain that wasn't registered.

Parking of un-used domain names is just too cheap and too common for me to put much faith in the reservation of the domain name being a hint to what's coming.