This afternoon, SnapNames sent an email to their customers alerting them that a (assuming former) employee had registered an account at SnapNames and had been bidding on various auctions. The result of this activity is that many people who were bidding on the same auctions either lost a domain they would have won or paid [...]
I have always had a mild addiction to registering domain names. Either because they were short, sounded “cool,” or I had some brilliant idea that I never had time for–I’m register-happy. Most of the renewal fees are spread out over the year, but around this time and again in January, I get hit with a [...]
Most people that know me know that I’m a bit domain-crazy. Any half-good idea that I have usually results in a domain name purchase–mostly as a “just in case” I decide to actually develop it. Despite the fact that this is a self-enabling and productivity damaging practice, I still partake in it. However, I have significantly limited myself in terms of what I let myself purchase (the next step was locking my laptop in a trunk and burying it in the back yard).
No, no, I’m not getting a divorce! My marriage couldn’t be better. And, in fact, as I’m writing this now, it would probably be a good idea for me to share with my wife exactly what I’m doing. The last thing I need is for her to stumble upon me writing or researching Indianapolis divorce [...]
Just a quick word to the wise: AVOID NETWORK SOLUTIONS LIKE THE PLAGUE. Sorry if I’m being a bit dramatic, but I tend to get a bit sensitive over companies that behave badly the way Network Solutions is. The DomainTools blog is covering the shady tactics that NetSol is now employing. It appears now that [...]
I have a mild addiction to domain name speculation. It’s purely small time (no $10,000 domain purchases here). Just the adventure (if you can call it that) of snagging reasonably interesting domain names when they expire that have fallen under the radar. I regularly check a few sites that list expired or soon-to-expire names just [...]
