A interesting story in contactmusic.com, about a band from the 90’s name Payment is bitching about not being able to simply get the domain name Pavement.com and/or a Facebook page by that name that is held by one of those nasty “Cybersquatters”.
Here is the title of the story:
“Rockers Pavement Spent Years With No Official Presence On Social Media Because They Refused To Pay A Fortune To A Cybersquatter For Their Domain Name.”
“The cult band split in 1999 and by the time they reunited for a comeback tour in 2010, social networking websites were the preferred route for band promotion and they wanted to set up their own Facebook.com page.
However, after discovering a mystery opportunist had already registered the band’s name and wanted a huge payoff to free it for the group, they refused.”
Guitarist Scott Kannberg tells Billboard, “When we were doing the reunion tour, we did a website and stuff, but with everything with Pavement, it’s like when you try to do something kind of cool, it always gets done kind of half-a**ed, you know? So everybody just lost interest in that website.”
“Then the Facebook, (other) people had control of it, like fans had Facebook pages and stuff. We tried to get (our official page) back around the reunion tour. But whoever had the page wouldn’t give it up, so we were just like, ‘Well, whatever.’ It wasn’t because we didn’t want to…
“We don’t know (who it was)!
I think it was just some random person who accumulated a bunch of pages for money.
They wanted a lot of money or something.
It was kind of a time when Facebook wasn’t as powerful. We were like, ‘Well, no way.'”
Well dude if you check it out, Facebook wasn’t even formed until 2004, way after 1989 when you were thinking about getting your Facebook page which didn’t even exist.
If you waited until 2010 for a generic term on Facebook, yeah its probably taken.
Maybe Scott your confusing Facebook with MySpace.com?
As far as domain names go Pavement.com is owned by the American Concrete Pavement Association, which sure doesn’t sound like a cybersquatter to me.
As for the band maybe you should be more concerned about your Wikipedia page:
“Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989.”
Operative word is “was”.
As for the band since you were formed in 1989 you certainly were well positioned to register the domain name Pavement.com, which I will go way out on a limb to say was available to be registered for free in 1989.
You were also around in 2004 when Facebook started so you could have registered your bands name on a FB page.
Now if you just woke up in 2010 or 2015, sorry you took a long nap, but don’t blame those that were awake and aware
Contactmusic.com maybe you should fact check your stories.
I checked iTunes.com and the bands most “popular” song only has 2 bars which is the pervable blimp on the radar.
WTF, why I cannot buy a 1000 acre farm at Manhattan, NY? Seriously, why? Am I missing something?
Negari is now more famous than Pavement.
People of this band and majority of other people are living a life of entitlement. They think they are entitled to everything they want. If they can’t get it then start saying bad things about others. Time, tide and the world waits for none. It moves on.
Acro
I think you are more famous than Pavement
Are we talking about Arco gas stations?
BullS, only gas I have comes from rice and beans.
Arco- I have submitted your name to replace Adam Dicker on that Domain Clown show that they air every Monday morning.
BullS – I will join if you do the show with me. Let me know.
I don’t think Ric Ocasek of The Cars will come out bitching about “squatters: snatching Cars.com. But, hey, the dude’s married to former supermodel, Paulina P…so life is good for Ric.
Man, I’d really like to get that vacant beach property on Manalapan, FL, but some damn squatter scooped it up and now he’s asking a fortune for it. Let me look up his name. Here it is, uh, Donald, er, Donald Trump. Who do these squatters think they are? Give that property to somebody for free so the person can, er, like, build something cool, man, like, a beach shack…:)
I remember this one https://youtu.be/Z5j4W2Y7RPQ
Suggest the style of “Indie” reflects the attitude.
http://www.matadorrecords.com/pavement
“PavementTheRockBand.com — Now closed indefinitely.” 🙂
Blimp, blip, whatever.
The band was actually meant for the 90s, not now.
Perhaps they’ll attempt what no Nineties band was capable of…..a guitar solo.
Actually Pavement is quite popular and well known in the underground music scene. In fact they were accused by another legend you probably never heard of, Mark E. Smith of The Fall, of ripping off their style and commercializing it. In other words, they made much more than The Fall who have put out more songs than the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined, were immortalized by John Peel as his favorite band, and Smith was given the “Godlike Genius Award” by NME.
I hope all this renewed attention brings them some new work.
Does anyone know how to contact them?
I need a bid to redo my driveway.