I think that domain names are the hot commodity of the 21st century. I ran
across a website that offers to sell you your domain name that is simply
your first and last name .com. These people got a large amount of capital
together and purchased over 1 million domain names that are combinations of
common first and last names. They are offering to sell these for many times
what they paid for them. I suppose that is capitalism at it's best.
Also, domain hijacking has become a big business. I registered a domain name
for a friend of mine. This domain was just a humor site based on my friends
dry and hormonal humor. It was called dearlori.com. Well.... not even 6
hours after the domain expired, someone else snapped it up and then emailed
us and offered to sell it back for $500. The URL www.dearlori.com now
redirects to a porn website with a link to make an offer on the domain name.
Another domain name game that I have encountered is the registering company
encouraging you to re-register the domain before it actually needs to be
done. I had several domains at Namezero.com and even though they were
registered for 12 months, I started to receive "warning" messages after the
fourth month: "Warning, your domain registration for www.whatever.com is
about to expire. Safeguard this domain name and re-register now".
I have also received similar "warnings" from companies that I was not
registered with telling me that my domain was about to expire and that I
should pay them to re-register it.
I transferred my domain names to a much more reliable host, and even after I
transferred, I still received "warning" messages from Namezero.
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Gary L. Nunn
Delaware Ohio
"Everything that has happened had to
happen. Everything that must happen
cannot be stopped."
- Dwayne Dyer
