On 2 Aug 98, at 6:52, Brent Eades wrote:
> Turns out that an outfit in Vancouver has snapped up about 12,000
> domain names covering both surnames and common words, and offers
> modestly priced "identity plans" for people wanting to use those names.
> The example they gave for eades.com was:
>
> Your Name: James Eades
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Website: James.Eades.com, www.James.Eades.com
>
> (My brother's name, coincidentally, being James Eades.) For this they
> charge a one-time $29.95 set-up, and $4.95 a year thereafter. Random
> examples of other names they hold are ScubaDivers.net, alligators.com,
> GolfFan.com, HamRadios.com, and so on.
>
> Personally, I don't see anything wrong with this, not at those kinds of
> prices; rather the opposite, I don't see how they can really make any
Price should not be an issue at all. It is either ethical to do what
they did or not.
> money at it, not with domain registration fees at $35 a year.
Unless some
> far-thinking soul snapped all these up back before there was any fee for
> registering with Internic... dunno.
Interesting. When I got on the net there was no charge to register a
domain. I was working under the "I don't need one so why register"
mentality. I recall a phone call from a guy in England who wanted to
know about my host. He was getting domains like crazy and he wanted
to know if my host would allow for multiple email addresses and what
they cost. Uh...I did not even know about this and it sparked my
move from my current host to clever.net when I realized became aware
of what email addresses really were and that my current host did not
allow for that. Clever.net had an alias file my home directory where
I could just make up names for my domain and then forward them.
> As the site points out, it's a nice solution for families, clubs,
> hobbyists etc who want a distinctive net identity: for five bucks a year a
> philatelist could become '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', for instance.
>
> Anyway, thought it was interesting.
Yeah, I sort of had the same idea on a very limited scale. I
registered germantown.net (I live in Germantown, TN). I also
registered cordova.net (a neighbor city).
But I have talked to people about using an alias at one of these
domains. Forget it. Most of them don't have a clue. The last thing
in the world you want to use as your email address is the one given
to you by your access provider.
Also, I wonder if you registered domain names before the charge, are
you forever free from paying the maintenance fee? I doubt it. I will
bet that this is one reason why some good domain names come back on
the market. But I am not sure. Suppose a guy registered 500 domain
names and now 2 years later internic sends him a bill for $50 per
domain (or whatever it is) for the current year. What is he going to
do?
Is their a service where you can ask to be notified if a domain name
becomes available? This is possible of course. You write a little
script to query internic for every domain name that someone has
requested. If it is now available you send the person an email -- or
start the registration process automatically which you can also do.
Peter
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