There's some questions whether PKI.com will remain the domain name for Kings Island...

But it looks like a Canadian advertising firm took the domain name "www.kingsisland.com." from what used to be some generic redirect page...

Questions:

Will they still use pki.com?

Will Cedar Fair tell these (censored) people to get lost, either through a payoff or lawsuit?

Will CF find a new domain, like kingsislandpark.com ?

And they can't take www.ki.com. Thats an office furniture supplier. So I don't think the website will be changing anytime soon.

Money can fix a lot of things.

So can litigation.

Somehow, I doubt that that Kings Island.Com place in Toronto has a leg to stand on in protecting that domain. And the English on that site is terrible. I wonder who or what that company actually is...

They may not even worry about that right now. But I have no idea. It would be nice if we had kingsisland.com but only time will tell.

It's a stretch wayyyy out in the left field, but kings-island.net is available. Otherwise...money and/or litigation can fix stuff, as Interpreter has already said.

I'm not sure if I like kings-island.net it sounds silly. LOL

That's where the "stretch" came in.

I'm sure they'll either buy (or force) the rights to kingsisland.com or they'll just keep pki.com

If they keep PKI.com, it won't be for too long. They may still own the domain name, but it won't necessarily be the domain that they advertise. I also see them using "kingsislandpark" "kingsislandthrills."

http://www.kingsislandpark.com is already used lol

BINGO.

Go here:

http://www.kingsisland.us

Giggle.

http://www.kingsdominion.us and

http://www.carowinds.us

also take you the same place...

great catch... strange to see the .us though!

BINGO.

Go here:

http://www.kingsisland.us

Giggle.

http://www.kingsdominion.us and

http://www.carowinds.us

also take you the same place...

wow nice job!!!

now they need to creat an actual website!

...I bet that's already ready...and will be turned on in due time.

That Cedar Fair thing is just a placeholder...

And I bet they end up with kingsisland.com too!

^ I agree....I could see a website change possibly as soon as the day of the announcement.

I was thinking that too...but then I got to thinking...why would they wait for KI's announcement to change over the whole chain's websites?

edit:

It looks like Paramount Parks was the one to register the .us names back in 2002. Though I wouldn't be surprised if CF would use the kingsisland.us domain, at least temporarily...

| Registrant Name: Paramount Parks Inc.

| Registrant Organization: Paramount Parks Inc.

| Registrant Address1: Paramount Parks Inc.

| Registrant Address2: 8720 Red Oak Blvd.

| Domain Registration Date: Wed Apr 24 15:04:49 GMT 2002

| Domain Expiration Date: Mon Apr 23 23:59:59 GMT 2007

I hope that litigation can solve the problem.

Hopefully they get the move on. Not just for us...Carowinds opens in about 60 days!!

eventually they will obtain it for a reasonable price, either by buying or litigation.

Many on here won't recall, much less care- but as a jr. executive with a local airline years ago, we subsisted with the website of www.delta-air.com (which still re-directs to the main site). A legitmate owner of Delta (faucets) owned the site and held out for a large sum because they knew we wanted it. After a few years of futile negotiations on their part and actually having to place a re-direct link to our site, they sold the rites to the site for pennies compared to what they originally wanted.

the kingsisland.com owners don't have such legitimacy. They'll fold.

As of 8 o'clock this morning www.kingsisland.us no longer takes you to the Cedar Fair website it takes you to a site that lets you choose from the different paramount parks.

http://kingsisland.us/kingsisland/#actions this takes you to a site that looks identical to www.pki.com

That's how the old paramount parks site looked before it redirected to Cedar Fair's site. For the past couple weeks, I've noticed the cedarfair.com redirect didn't work and goes to paramountparks.com instead. For instance, if you click "Other Parks" on the pki.com site, it usually takes you to cedarfair.com, but sometimes it randomly doesn't.

Update: if you type in pki.com it changes to http://www2.cedarfair.com/kingsisland/#actions

notice the Cedar Fair name and not paramount parks!!!

Ha... I just got http://www3.cedarfair.com/kingsisland/index.cfm#actions

with a 3

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing webekingsislandandstuff.com is still available.

Haha...Click "other parks" on the 'new' cedarfair.com/kingsisland OOPS

Haha...Click "other parks" on the 'new' cedarfair.com/kingsisland OOPS

ROFLOL!!! dude now we know CF is working on the site!!!! I wonder if there reading these posts and cracking up. hey but they could be getting ready to have 2 CF Sites a Cedarfair.com and a www3.cedarfair.com and making one the all Cedar Fair parks and the other with just Paramount’s ones. cedarfair.com W/O the 3 takes you to the real CF site wile the one that does have the 3 takes you to the PP site.

I don't know if it's just my computer and internet or not, but www.pki.com nor www.carowinds.com are loading for me. Other websites such as PKIC still load perfectly. Could this mean Cedar Fair is changing the websites right now?

www.PKI.com is working for me. Not sure what your problem might be.

I tried and it worked for me but it did take a pretty long time. But as it has been said pki.com, and all the other former Paramount Park's sites will redirect to something like www3.cedarfair.com/kingsisland... etc.

Yea, it's working for me now. I don't know what the problem was. It did take a really long time to load for me though. Also, in my internet explorer, I usually get a little symbol next to the name of the website, The paramount mountain with stars always shows up for pki.com, and its not there anymore.

I get the same icon thing and the mountain with stars is still there for me.