STILL good domains left...

I was going to register a few domains for future plans I have:
OnLaunch.com
and
BrainStormed.com
but they were registered a few days before I was going to buy them. Damn

So I registered
WiredStart.com instead.

I agree, there are still a lot of good domain names left. All you need is a Thesaurus (sp?) and a lot of time

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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.

[This message has been edited by robp (edited 27 January 2000).]

I agree with robp, you need a good thesaurus.

I wanted to register webdesign.com but it was taken by digimedia. And I really dont understand why. Their site is nothing. I don't even think they offer web design. Check it out for yourself.

Now I have this domain name that is really long and no one can remember it. All my clients (also future clients) try [url="http://www.d'angelowebdesign.com"]www.d'angelowebdesign.com[/url] isntead when I tell them the address or [url="http://www.D'Angelo"]www.D'Angelo[/url] Web Design.com

It really bites. Oh well. Hind sight is always 20/20

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-RJ D'Angelo
D'Angelo Web Design

http://www.dangelowebdesign.com

I still need to decide on a domain name. I popped in a couple of domain names last night to see if they were available, and there weren't. I am offering website design.

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Adam Lysne
[email protected]
AOL- FibrOptikL
AIM- f i b r Md
ICQ- 49384845

I was thinking of getting one. I have some in mind but don't want to share cuz there might be some unloyal people here who would snatch em' up.

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~Parker~

Sounds like most people have had some sort of luck. Anyone out there who might have any BAD stories? Like NSI mixing up your domain or something? Or any type of domain story.

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Justin S.

I do not want to tell, because someone might go and buy it. I do not have that good of a reputation with NSI. I have purchased three domains in the past year, and paid for none of them. They all have gotten reset. I may pay for one though..that I want to keep.

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Adam Lysne
[email protected]
AOL- FibrOptikL
AIM- f i b r Md
ICQ- 49384845

only 3 unpaid domains ?
well, here's my story I was pissed off at NSI for letting a wanna-be hacker change my "paid" domain's info (the contact info and nameserver info - I guess the moron wanted my domain), good thing I found about it quickly. Anyway after that fiasco, I registered 80 domains last year and never paid any of them.. HAHA. and I mailbombed that wanna-be hacker's e-mail address, I mean he was so stupid that he used his dial-up e-mail account in my contact info. I guess he's still stuck with the 50,000 e-mail messages that I sent him. HAHA/ - moral of this story is don't change someone's domain info if you're going to get caught with it.

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Webmaster Tools !

Hmmm- that's an interesting story. I guess you can't not pay for domains now, since you HAVE to pay by cc, which I don't like at all. I don't bother with NetSol anymore though, I have found TotalNIC to be MUCH better! Just a question, why did you buy 80 domains and never pay for them?

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Justin S.

I guess I was just very pissed off at that time and needed to vent out..

Anyway, you can still register domain names without paying for it. By using AHNET
Click here for AHNET's Domain registration website

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Webmaster Tools !

Wow- that's pretty cool! I didn't think there were any left. Anyway- anyone got any more domain name stories?

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Justin S.

A while back (Spring '99), a guy registered xrs.org and set up a web site that had graphics from my site as well as xrs.com's site as well as exact HTML coding that could be found on my site (the idiot even forgot to change the META Keywords and Description tags).

When I told him to lose the stolen graphics (I didn't really care so much about the HTML since it wasn't that big of a deal to me at the time), he went and attempted to hijack my xrs.net domain (I'm not sure if he tried getting the xrs.com domain too or not) but it took a while to fix the error since Network Solutions's lame domain modification system went ahead and changed the nameservers even though I promptly replied to the modification request saying "no" to any changes.

After a week or so of struggling to fix the error and losing valuable first-time visitors (this was the week after I officially opened XRS.NET), the problem was solved.

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R Smith
The XRS Network
http://xrs.net/ | | [email protected]

A year ago NS charged me $12000 although I had only registered one domain name. But I got all the money back

Malte

Haha- $12000? What, are they charging $32 per day now? Oh my gosh

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Justin S.

I registred them, in hopes of actually using the site..like one domain was going good, then the workers quit and so forth. The second MP3 one I forgot about, and the third one, the site was down the 9th of Spetebmer, and then we quit on it..so I never paid it. I am going to buy it and bring it back, but Iw ill not be able to do much work on my part.

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Adam Lysne
[email protected]
AOL- FibrOptikL
AIM- f i b r Md
ICQ- 49384845

was the domain on the house after that $12,000 scare?

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There are potentially unlimited domains available, but it's getting harder and harder to get good ones. A few months ago I was toying with the idea of registering a few more just to have on ice for when I wanted them. Last night I decided to grab them and they were all gone. In most cases, not only had the x.com domain been taken, but the x.net and x.org names too. Since it got cheaper to register it seems that names are disappearing faster than they used to. Maybe that's just a mis-conception and is attributable to the growth of the internet rather than falling prices. However, it doesn't really matter. Decent names are out there, but they disappear quickly. If you want one, grab it now because odds are it won't be around next week.

They probably didn't give you the name for free if it's NetSol. I like TotalNIC much better!

Anyway- what do you think the next big domain extension will be? I know .com will never go away, since it is the one most well know, but what about .st or .cc?

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Justin S.

My friend and I just registered what-the-hell.com thought that was a good one. Also go and check out [url="http://www.web****e.com"]www.web****e.com[/url] its rather humerous.

~Vy~

ahhh!
I forgot about the new censoring system!
Thats it spoilt now. Oh ****!

Heh- yep. I think I can guess what your domain name is. Anyway- anymore interesting articles/stories?

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Justin S.

This is not a story, but just a comment.
Let's face it. The countdown has started. I guess in less than 2 years, nobody will be able to find a domain.

The main asset of a domain exept from it's actual name, is the domain extention. In my opinion...that's where all the money is.
Sooner or later NS will have to *promote* another extention. And you know what? It's all about promotion. Imagine If yahoo.com was yahoo.net...But yahoo.com is yahoo.com along with cnn.com...blah blah...Everyone knows an URL as blah blah.com.

So...it's up to NS to promote a new extention. Along with NS, big companies should buy such domains in order to promote it...But...all the big companies have a .com in their pocket...

So...what's the Concusion?
I d say.....Wait...Wait and see...Com WILL be the most popular extention...The point is ....who's gonna be Number 2?

Nick

Ah- interesting opinion. I agree with you, but I don't believe NSI will be the one to promote another domain extension. I would have to say .com .net and .org will be gone in a while, and people will be moving to the .web .firm .shop etc... once they launch.

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Justin S.

i got spottzz.com for my biz sit when it starts.

oops poor spelling day-sporttz.com for my new professionally licensed sports store.

I was starting a new site and found the domain skateboarder.org to be available. Well I waited about 10 min after I found it to be available and then I decided to grab. The next thing I know it was registered. It was taken up that fast. Oh well.

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Travis
Eboarding.net

That is pretty quick.

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~Parker Trasborg~
Formerly- ParkerT and sixflags111

Yeah, I have some great domain names! The best one is webmasters-network.com. I have aircraft-refinishing.com, webmasterdir.com and more, but the other ones are company names, which aren't too good. There are still good domain names left, and I think .com and .net or .cc will be the most popular ext.

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Webmaster's Network
WebmasterDir.com
WNDesigners.com