Domain name angst
I really hate how so many domains with popular keywords are taken up by “false” sites. You know the ones – they look like they might be legit, but they are chock full of google ads and no real information.
And in the case of homeschooling, I think there are more domains taken for this purpose than there are for legitimate helpful reasons. It burns my behind. As a side note, I think this is how places like goDaddy make their money (even if that’s where I get our domain names). A domain expires, and it reverts back to them and gets auto-plastered with ads (so they make money while it sits there) plus it goes up for auction or sale with insanely stupid prices on it. In the case of homeschooling again, they start at $400 and up – just for the domain at auction or sale.
Makes me wish I had time and money to place a bundle on backorder – that’s only $20 each, if it works.
(Again, a domain that hasn’t been used is usually under $10.)
oh, and if you want to really scare yourself, look at up-for-auction domains names including the word “blog”. Oy.
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I’m getting real tired of the automated trackbacks from those sites. I did a post with the phrase cell phone in the title and got about 6 trackbacks from splogs with cellphone in the URL.
So did you want a particular name? for a particular purpose? Is this a business venture? Is the price reasonable in any sense of the word? And would you like small investors to help you out?
Just asking.
Yeah, Ken recently got in a battle royale for his namesake blog. His dad had it for a real estate biz, and quit, so it got scooped up by one of those companies who sell them and Ken furiously followed it around for awhile, trying to convince himself to buy it, but they dumped it after a month or 2 and he got it for free.
JoVE, I tried emailing but it keeps coming back as undeliverable for some reason. :-/ Basically, noting specific at the moment, just for future reference and possible ideas.
Just noticed that I missed an “s” in rogers.com. That might be why it didn’t work.