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Suggestion:

Write a Cease and Desist letter to

    Livecoding.tv (Livecoding Ltd)
    20-22 Wenlock Road
    London, N1 7GU
    England

That should get them to stop.

A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it.

Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses.

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I kinda want to move my twitch streams over to livecoding just to be able to get into this deletion mess and send lawyers after them now...

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Wait what, they're in the UK?

This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.

That's odd, their domain name suggests they are based in the small island nation of Tuvalu.

By that logic, Libya probably has the most active startup scene of any country right now.

You do know that's what the top level domains were actually for, right?

I don't disagree! Most countries' registries don't have requirements around geographical presence, so here we are.

There are more oddities like that:

The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena.

At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files.

Examples:

- http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency)

- http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc)

- https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station")

Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.

Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.

.nu is common in the Netherlands as well, it means the same thing in Dutch.

> Many more such cases exist all around the world

Yep. The Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate use http://www.house.mn/ and http://www.senate.mn/ respectively. It's really strange to see a government agency use a TLD belonging to a foreign country.

Rule #1: spammers lie.

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