Back when I was still in photography school we were encouraged to
register domain names for our future businesses. That was back before I
found out I was going to be forced into retirement.
I had an idea for a [stupid] wedding photography business name &
registered a couple of different variations on it. I also registered
variations on another name Two-Lane-Photography.
When the first iteration of the registration cycle was getting ready to
expire, I let the domain names for the wedding business lapse and only
renewed the Two-Lane-Photography domains.
But since then, when I go to renew the domain names I'm keeping in the
forlorn hope that I'll someday put together a web site to showcase my
photography the registrar still offers me the domain names for the
wedding photography business.
It's possible no one is actually squatting on the domain names. It may
be only that they were previously registered.
Are you using the same registrar that you originally used?
On 5/10/2017 17:05, Gonz wrote:
Seems like organizations like GoDaddy get to park a lot of these
domain names and wait for a fish to bite. I'm thinking that they are
register servers or something of the ilk and get to do this for free
or very low cost. If you do a whois on them, they are all parked at
CASHPARKING.COM, which is just their fishing rod.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
Marnie (aka Doe) wrote:
Okay, squatters, nice to know, Larry.
When you go to the original sites, it says someone is willing to sell
this domain name.
You're probably right, the hosting site could have done it.
Have you done a whois on the domain name?
What was the old domain?
One thing, though, even with .org and .com changes, all my old files are
still there, so just moving them over.
Don't even need to move the files, just update DNS so the new domain name
points to them.
What a relief!!!
Marnie aka Doe :-)
On 5/10/2017 12:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Marnie (aka Doe) wrote:
Domain name scammers!
Actually, the term is squatters. It's often the registrars themselves
that do it, because it doesn't cost them any money.
For historical reasons (the name of my first xenix box was limited to 7
characters), when my email went from a bang path
ucscc.ucsc.edu!red4est!lrc, to domains red4est.felton.ca.us, I then
registered red4est.com rather than redforest.com. By the time the web
became popular enough, someone else had registered redforest.com and
when it lapsed a squatter had taken it.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
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