Name a Star, Name a Galaxy for Science Research
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Several years ago, a free name a galaxy web site was published on the internet in direct competition to the name a galaxy service our observatory has offered as a fund raiser since the mid 1990s. We were one of the original name a star services.
Not only does the free name a galaxy web site require no payment, it openly criticizes the donation we ask for. Our revenue funds the operation of our observatory and the cost of astronomical research that we conduct there. The no-charge name a galaxy web site offers nothing more than an automated program that publishes the data that the galaxy registrant enters into a web page form. But, there’s a catch. This free name a galaxy internet site demands a person provide a name and e-mail address, regardless of the fact that all that is ever emailed is a code that is unneeded to the sign up process. Why is this? One could suspect that the free name a galaxy web site is the performance of a a spammer who is amassing email addresses and selling them to a third party.
The no-charge name a galaxy web site operator pronounces that he has no design to sell e-mail addresses. But what is his purpose? Why would he steal our name a galaxy concept and produce a no-charge galaxy naming internet site? If he’s not harvesting email addresses for spammers, then possibly he’s just a mean individual. Our customer service number is proudly published on our website, but his is not. So it is impracticable to call him to ask him what he is up to.