I registered a domain, received both emails acknowledging the receipt of the registration and the email stating that the domain had been registered, and then waited and waited. Nothing showed up. I finally registered to domain name. This time everything went as expected. I don't know what would have happened is someone would have registered the domain in the mean time. It seems the "my" domain name was wide open to whoever wanted it.
It's true I am addicted to domain names and have far to many, but I am not a speculator. I found out right away that the domain names that I wanted or needed were hard or impossible to get. Then I found that the domain names close to the domain names of site that I had developed we being taken. As my sites started getting popular others would nab the common typos and such just to get the traffic. Then I started getting the domains around my domain before I started to develop sites. Now I'm just in panic mode, so it's getting hard to raise the cash to pay for all of them as well as keep up the sites, so they go past due a lot.
I recently lost casinomoney.com I just noticed it this weekend. I was about to pay for the domain when I notice I didn't own it anymore. Granted my payment is late, but in the past the ALWAYS send you a final notice bill. I'll have to contact them tomorrow and see if I can straighten this out. Some is going to be unhappy here either the new owner or myself. I can't believe this could happen.
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Let's not forget, as one of the five test registars AOL may have direct access to the interNIC database.
Now you have me worried about my domain. I've received the same demand letter from AOL, but so far no word about my response.
I registered a domain, received both emails acknowledging the receipt of the registration and the email stating that the domain had been registered, and then waited and waited. Nothing showed up. I finally registered to domain name. This time everything went as expected. I don't know what would have happened is someone would have registered the domain in the mean time. It seems the "my" domain name was wide open to whoever wanted it.
It's true I am addicted to domain names and have far to many, but I am not a speculator. I found out right away that the domain names that I wanted or needed were hard or impossible to get. Then I found that the domain names close to the domain names of site that I had developed we being taken. As my sites started getting popular others would nab the common typos and such just to get the traffic. Then I started getting the domains around my domain before I started to develop sites. Now I'm just in panic mode, so it's getting hard to raise the cash to pay for all of them as well as keep up the sites, so they go past due a lot.
I recently lost casinomoney.com I just noticed it this weekend. I was about to pay for the domain when I notice I didn't own it anymore. Granted my payment is late, but in the past the ALWAYS send you a final notice bill. I'll have to contact them tomorrow and see if I can straighten this out. Some is going to be unhappy here either the new owner or myself. I can't believe this could happen.