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Dartful Dodger:
My first and last name is the same first and last name of a musician and a comedian.  A few years ago my first and last name dot com looked like it was created for a college project owned by a college student.  For years he would never update it and would take two weeks to re-register it.  For those two weeks I would try and register it every morning and every night until he re-register it.  I assumed there was some grace period and with his current track record of re-registering it after it expired there's be a good change he'd slip up.  At the time I had firstname lastname dot net.

Anyway a few years ago this guy let his domain expire for three weeks and now it's mine.  For the first few months I would get personal emails for this guy.

The comedian picked up my firstnameLastname.net a few months after I let it expire.  I held on to it for a year after I got firstnamelastname.com, just in case someone still used that email.  

I sometimes wonder if he gets emails for me and talks about them and how he stole .net from me in his act.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 15, 2010, 02:58:09 pm ---My first and last name is the same first and last name of a musician and a comedian.  A few years ago my first and last name dot com looked like it was created for a college project owned by a college student.  For years he would never update it and would take two weeks to re-register it.  For those two weeks I would try and register it every morning and every night until he re-register it.  I assumed there was some grace period and with his current track record of re-registering it after it expired there's be a good change he'd slip up.  At the time I had firstname lastname dot net.

Anyway a few years ago this guy let his domain expire for three weeks and now it's mine.  For the first few months I would get personal emails for this guy.

The comedian picked up my firstnameLastname.net a few months after I let it expire.  I held on to it for a year after I got firstnamelastname.com, just in case someone still used that email.  

I sometimes wonder if he gets emails for me and talks about them and how he stole .net from me in his act.

--- End quote ---

I would have given him a sub domain and hosted his site out of kindness.  ::)

SavannahLion:
I used to think my last name wasn't common (I'm Italian, and it specifically doesn't exist amongst Italians unless they're related to me) until I tried to pick up lastname.com and it was taken by a model (from the Philippines IIRC apparently it's a common last name there). I spent years trying to snatch the name until one cycle, I completely forgot and the name was released. Unfortunately, it was picked up by one of those :censored: domain squatters locked into a yearly automatic renewal process and has been that way ever since. I can buy it, but I'll have to pay their exorbitant fees. Apparently the model who owned that domain didn't think it was worth it.

I've settled on mylastname.net and have one of those domain snipers to watch for that domain to free up.

Point being, you have to decide how important this domain is to you. If you let it go free into the wild it almost guarantees you'll won't own it again for a long time.

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 15, 2010, 03:45:51 pm ---I would have given him a sub domain and hosted his site out of kindness.  ::)

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His site was a simple one page thing with an image of his college's mascot, talking about how wonderful his college is.  It didn't change in the 3 years I was trying to register it, so I assumed it was a homework assignment he did in college, and he was keeping the domain for the email address.

My job is programming internet applications and databases, so I wanted it for professional reasons, plus I wanted to own my name.

Blanka:
It's a problem with .com and .net names. They are too cheap. Some big parties can make a reservation on a name without actually paying for it. This is what happens. They see it is available, and the reserve it. Best thing is to let the reservation void. It'll take a bit, but then it's available again. Here in Holland, it won't happen to .nl names, as they are at least 3 euro/year and are coupled to a person.

The best thing that can happen to .com and .net names, is that they get a minimum fee of say 2$ per reservation. If that becomes truth, these spam-redirect companies won't be able to make serious business out of expired domaind any longer. It becomes too expensive for them to reserve all those domains.

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