Domain of frivolity

On 6/17/08 5:37 PM, "iainboyd" <iainmaplescombe.com> wrote:

> To my slight embarrassment, after enjoying the WWDC video stream and a few
> beers, I am now the proud owner of "takeanotherlookme.com", "backchme.com",
> "throwthebookme.com" and "haveagome.com". If they are the same as .Mac
> addresses, I believe they're now registered forever so I can auction them in
> due course to an audience of critics, villains, authors and other online
> egotists.

*Sigh*

I never come up with good ideas like that. All the good names are now taken.
The only one left was "iamlme.com". :-|

--

bill

--On June 17, 2008 3:37:37 PM -0700 iainboyd <iainmaplescombe.com> wrote:

> I wondered if other TidBits readers had nothing better to do than
> register unnecessary e-mail addresses and domains? --

Nothing in the me.com range. But I've gone through quite a few silly domain
names.

I have MonkeyNuggets.com. Inspired by the Get Fuzzy cartoon (Bucky Katt
tries to order Moneky Nuggets) I use it as an e-mail dumping ground for one
off needed e-mail addresses. I still want to do a big fake web page
advertising my Monkey Nuggets! Healthier than Chicken!

<http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/>

I used to own GoddamnHippie.com and PriusDrivingHippie.com but I've let
them lapse since I wasn't really doing anything thing with them, i just
thought they were funny (I was going to put up a blog about my Prius
driving but never went forward with it.)

Lately I've been on a quest to find the shortest domain name I could. I
want to move away from the monkeynuggets.com for more reoccuring e-mail
addresses -- too much typing! Currently I use kvmsg.com. I would love to
snag a 4 letter domain (I was trying random letters for awhile to try and
find one.)

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:37 PM, iainboyd <iainmaplescombe.com> wrote:
> Do you remember sitting in the pub thinking up daft internet domains and then
> rushing back to the office to see if you could register "lunch-for-a-long-time.com"
> just so you could have "I'll_belunch-for-a-long-time.com' as your e-mail address?
>
> As we know, all the good domains were snapped up a long time, but it seems that
> the me.com domain opens a brief window of creative possibilities.

I remember when the *.name domain opened up, I went and grabbed
weintraub.name as quickly as I could. About five years before that, I
tried registering for weintraub.net, weintraub.org, and weintraub.com,
but they were all taken, and I settled for weintraubworld.net and
weintraubworld.com (my prefered was the *.net address, but a lot of
people accidentally typed *.com instead, so I got both.). My wife is
still angry that we own three domains that all point to the same set
of email addresses.

I was very tempted to register some frivolous domains when
Montenegro's official domain -- the .me domain -- opened up: kick.me,
bite.me, love.me, etc. However, at $50 a shot (and you could register
hundreds of domains at a time), I was too slow and too poor for that
land rush.

--
David Weintraub
qazwartgmail.com

At 15:06 06/21/08 -0700, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>Currently I use kvmsg.com. I would love to snag a 4 letter domain (I was
>trying random letters for awhile to try and find one.)

z-x8.com is available.

There are less than half a million four-letter combinations. I'm pretty
sure that the .com ones were all snapped up by !#$%^&*( speculators a long
time ago. Add in digits and hyphens and there are about 1.77 million, and
apparently the speculators haven't seen fit to grab all of them. I wish the
parasitic speculators would bankrupt themselves trying.

I was lucky; I got paleo.org just before the boom, and in particular before
the speculative boom. Before that I was trying to follow the .us guidelines
and using paleo.greensboro.fl.us. Way too much typing. Now that the .us
rules have changed, paleo.us is taken but not in use ... not sure if it's a
speculator or just not in use.

Edward
--
Art works by Melynda Reid: http://paleo.org

--On June 21, 2008 11:47:54 PM -0700 Edward Reid <edwardpaleo.org> wrote:

> At 15:06 06/21/08 -0700, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>> Currently I use kvmsg.com. I would love to snag a 4 letter domain (I was
>> trying random letters for awhile to try and find one.)
>
> z-x8.com is available.
>
> There are less than half a million four-letter combinations. I'm pretty
> sure that the .com ones were all snapped up by !#$%^&*( speculators a
> long
> time ago. Add in digits and hyphens and there are about 1.77 million, and
> apparently the speculators haven't seen fit to grab all of them. I wish
> the
> parasitic speculators would bankrupt themselves trying.

good call on the hyphens, I got kv-m.com. I was just trying letters and
numbers, i think most of those got snapped up. Hyphens not helping looking
for a 3 letter domain, pretty sure they're all gone.

Not sure if i got bitten by it but it's pretty irritating that Network
Solutions (Verisign) was grabbing any unused name that was checked on it's
whois servers for 4 days. right up there with typical speculator tricks.

David Weintraub wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:37 PM, iainboyd <iainmaplescombe.com> wrote:

> I remember when the *.name domain opened up, I went and grabbed
> weintraub.name as quickly as I could. About five years before that, I
> tried registering for weintraub.net, weintraub.org, and weintraub.com,
> but they were all taken, and I settled for weintraubworld.net and
> weintraubworld.com (my prefered was the *.net address, but a lot of
> people accidentally typed *.com instead, so I got both.). My wife is
> still angry that we own three domains that all point to the same set
> of email addresses.

I'll bet "weintraub" lasted a LOT longer than "ross". :)

I live in Raleigh and my wife came up with <raleighross.com>.

David

On 22-Jun-2008, at 16:05, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> Not sure if i got bitten by it but it's pretty irritating that Network
> Solutions (Verisign) was grabbing any unused name that was checked
> on it's
> whois servers for 4 days. right up there with typical speculator
> tricks.

This is one reason that I will have nothing to do with Verisign. They
are total and complete scum. they make spammers look like cuddly
bears. Remember when they sent out renewal notices to domains
registered with other companies? The "renewals" where actually
transfers.

It got to the point at our office where the mail room was ordered to
put all Verisign mail straight in the shredder, unopened.

On 06-23-2008 4:17 AM, LewisGmail wrote:
> On 22-Jun-2008, at 16:05, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>> Not sure if i got bitten by it but it's pretty irritating that Network
>> Solutions (Verisign) was grabbing any unused name that was checked
>> on it's
>> whois servers for 4 days. right up there with typical speculator
>> tricks.
>
> This is one reason that I will have nothing to do with Verisign. They
> are total and complete scum. they make spammers look like cuddly
> bears.


LOL. I searched for domain availability on their site one day but
decided I would like to register it with a Tucows reseller rather than
NetSol. But, yes, in the name of *preventing* domain-squatting they
squatted on the domain I'd searched, saying it now belonged to them and
would belong to them for the next year.

I actually went to the Better Business Bureau and filed a complaint
since there was no text on their domain-search pages advising one that
they would take this action on any available domain searched on their site.


[Good for you. Count me in the group that hates Network Solutions with the passion of a thousand suns for the way they treated us back before there were many other registrars, and we still had domains with them. -Adam]


NetSol promptly released the domain.

But it should not have required an hour of my time to get it resolved.

kazar

Back in 1996, michelle.org expired for some reason, and I was lucky enough to be the first to latch on to it.

On 23/06/2008 8:17 PM, "David Ross" <drdavidrossconsultant.com> spake thus:

> I'll bet "weintraub" lasted a LOT longer than "ross". :)

It's surprising how quickly some of them go. stanger.* all got snapped up by
a genealogical site some years ago (along with many, many others), but it
looks like it's let them go since (company probably folded). They're all
owned by different people now. I've had to make do with stanger.org.nz :)

--
Nigel Stanger, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
http://xri.net/=nigel.stanger

Not sure if i got bitten by it but it's pretty irritating that Network Solutions (Verisign) was grabbing any unused name that was checked on its whois servers for 4 days. right up there with typical speculator tricks. This is one reason that I will have nothing to do with Verisign.

I got bitten by them. I went to register starsub dot com - thought I would make a million selling subway coffee and starbucks food ;-)

Searched, it was available, went to register it a couple of days later and it had gone. Now it's a porn site.

What is the name of a Tucows reseller that would be good to use? I,
too, was going to go with Network Solutions before reading this...


[Not a Tucows reseller, and not the cheapest, but we have all our domains with easyDNS. They're very reliable and serious about what they do. http://www.easydns.com/ - Oh, and they run a whois service that explicitly does not play the squatting game. -Adam]

 >>What is the name of a Tucows reseller ...?

 >>>[Not a Tucows reseller, and not the cheapest, but we have all our
domains with easyDNS. They're very reliable and serious about what
they do. http://www.easydns.com/ - Oh, and they run a whois service
that explicitly does not play the squatting game. -Adam]

Thanks, Adam.

--On June 24, 2008 2:53:11 PM -0700 Kathleen Stewart <kstewartcharter.net>
wrote:

> What is the name of a Tucows reseller that would be good to use? I,
> too, was going to go with Network Solutions before reading this...
>
>
> [Not a Tucows reseller, and not the cheapest, but we have all our domains
> with easyDNS. They're very reliable and serious about what they do.
> http://www.easydns.com/ - Oh, and they run a whois service that
> explicitly does not play the squatting game. -Adam]

I use http://active-domain.com for my personal domains. It offers the basic
services domain registration, DNS services and e-mail forwarding for $11 a
domain/year. I typically get the whois proof service (replaces your
personal info in Whois with generic info but you can still be reached via
that info) which is another $2 per domain/year.

For business level stuff, I agree with Adam. EasyDNS is more expensive but
worth it.

Well, I managed to get make_eyesme.com and me_me_me_meme.com, but I just missed out on are_you_lookinme.com. Darn.

It will be hard to top the email address acquired some time ago by an
electronic friend who hangs his hat at University of Cambridge
Computing Service. He snagged the Austrian domain dotat.at

And his email address prepends dot to that. (I really don't have to
be so circumspect--there are 4300 Google hits on the email address,
but it's habit.) Tony's home page is <http://dotat.at/>.

   -John

I was burned when RegisterFly went under. I had registered
anglofilesolutions.com, and was using that as the name for my consulting
business. When it was time to renew the domain, I paid my ten dollars, but
they never bothered to renew it for me, and someone else managed to snap it
up. I'm not sure how many clients I may have lost because of that; I've
since rebranded as Three Lions Technology (a proud member of the Three Lions
Group, along with Three Lions Photography and the embryonic Three Lions
Education), but it was a huge pain, and all because I'd trusted RegisterFly
‹ it was horribly frustrating to watch as my business website was
transformed to nothing more than a holding page for whatever domain-parking
business snagged it from me.

By the way, following the remarks made about not getting any short domains
any longer, I yesterday managed to register dobna.net for a side project I'm
working on, the Dominion of British North America (details to follow). I was
surprised that a five-letter domain would still be available, but pleased
that it was.

And, in related news, I saw the other day that a bloke who registered
www.£.com ten years ago plans to auction it for a million quid...

Steve

PS writing this message made me think about what must have happened to my
old domain. It turns out that whoever had pinched it from me had let it
lapse; I'm the new owner!