Re: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials
At 23:03 13/12/2000 -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: >> That's all too true. For certain Network Solutions have a service that >> warns some people that have paid (a lot) when someone checks an address >> that doesn't exist yet. They offered it to one of the companies I worked >> for once so I know for sure. > >Why does this not surprise me? Was it before or after Verisign bought them? Before, but I don't think that it's going to change much. >Well, I have registered (through an OpenSRS reseller I might add) >modperlnews.com and .org. If anyone is interested in using them, let me know >and I can get the DNS taken care of. That's really cool :) -- robin b. James Joyce -- an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. -- Tom Stoppard
RE: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials
> -Original Message- > From: Robin Berjon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:24 PM > To: Stas Bekman > Cc: Drew Taylor; mod_perl list > Subject: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials > [snip] > This doesn't mean that modperlnew will be > taken within hours but one should be very careful when using > registrars' > whois/dns check tools. If you could want it, buy it > immediately. Maybe some > registrars are not that kind of bandits, but it's hard to > know. When the > revolution comes, we should probably hang most of those nic people ;) I didn't have that experience with dotster.com where it took me a few weeks to make up my mind... for what it's worth... --Geoff > > -- robin b. > Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. -- T.S. Eliot >
Re: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > This doesn't mean that modperlnew will be > > taken within hours but one should be very careful when using registrars' > > whois/dns check tools. If you could want it, buy it immediately. Maybe some > > registrars are not that kind of bandits, but it's hard to know. When the > > revolution comes, we should probably hang most of those nic people ;) > > Well, I have registered (through an OpenSRS reseller I might add) > modperlnews.com and .org. If anyone is interested in using them, let me know > and I can get the DNS taken care of. > > Matt, are you interested? If not, maybe I'll start my own advocacy site. :-P I'm quite happy for people to point other domain names at take23.org, the IP address is 194.70.26.133. Just let me know though because its a name based vhost system so I have to hack httpd.conf too. -- /||** Director and CTO ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** Personal Web Site: http://sergeant.org/ ** \\// //\\ // \\
Re: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials
Robin Berjon wrote: > > At 23:31 13/12/2000 +0100, Stas Bekman wrote: > >> A quick check of nsiregistry.com shows that modperlnews.(com|org|net) > are all > >> available. > > > >Too bad for you/us. You can be sure that when you will go to register any > >of the above they will be all taken by a reseller. I've mentioned a few > >times on this list that one should do atomic buys (tm). If you check and > >don't buy in the same assembly opcode, someone else snoops on your search > >and will do it for you. The only way to get a domain nowadays is to > >check-buy atomically. I have enough examples of people who were > >burned. I've lost stas.com 2.5 years ago, because it took me 1 day to > >decide that I want to spend $$ on it, well it was taken the next day... > > That's all too true. For certain Network Solutions have a service that > warns some people that have paid (a lot) when someone checks an address > that doesn't exist yet. They offered it to one of the companies I worked > for once so I know for sure. Why does this not surprise me? Was it before or after Verisign bought them? > This doesn't mean that modperlnew will be > taken within hours but one should be very careful when using registrars' > whois/dns check tools. If you could want it, buy it immediately. Maybe some > registrars are not that kind of bandits, but it's hard to know. When the > revolution comes, we should probably hang most of those nic people ;) Well, I have registered (through an OpenSRS reseller I might add) modperlnews.com and .org. If anyone is interested in using them, let me know and I can get the DNS taken care of. Matt, are you interested? If not, maybe I'll start my own advocacy site. :-P -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com
