[TYPO3-dev] Extensionkey-Grabbing???

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Tolleiv Nietsch wrote:
> a few days ago I published the "firebuglitejs" extension and I found 
> something very strange when I first tried to register "firebuglite" as 
> extensionkey.
> I tried to register "firebuglite", "firebug_lite" ... "firebug_____lite" 
> (up to 5 underscores) and non of these keys was free for registration. 
> But also non of these keys represents a existing extension and that's 
> the reason why I thought that for some reason there might be some kind 
> of extensionkeys-grabbers around here...

Keys can be registered but not used by key owner.

> And I'd also like to know how I could get a information about the user 
> who has registered a extensionkey (to get in contact with this person)....

No easy way. You can try asking Robert Lemke to look into TER data.

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