April 07, 2004Cheap Domain Name Registration, Pt III love cheap domain name registration. Absolutely love it. When I have a wacky idea for a new domain name, I don't hesitate. I register it. But it wasn't always that way ... I recall an incident back in the tail of the boom days, when the Internet-fueled economy was still roaring along with strong expectations. I'm sitting in a local bar, having lunch with a couple of friends, and the conversation turns to domain name registration. "I just had the most insanely great idea for a new domain," I blurted. "What is it?" my friends asked. "C'mon man, let it out!" "I don't know if I'm gunna do it," I replied. "I'm not that crazy about throwing thirty five bucks out on a whim for the domain registration." "The heck with that," my friend replied. "What's the domain name, already?" "Another stupid dot com," I answered. "Huh?" "It's another stupid dot com," I said, with a straight face. "What is this, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine?" "No man, it's anotherstupid.com. I want to register the A N O T H E R S T U P I D DOT C O M domain." "Bwahahahahaha, that's awesome!" Now maybe we were just a little too loud in the bar. All I know is that the domain was available before we met for lunch. And by the time I mustered up enough steam to register the domain name, it was gone gone gone. Someone else had registered my brilliantly stupid domain name. Looking at the WHOIS data, it's unlikely that the person that registered the domain overheard our conversation in the bar. But maybe one of his friends did. The moral of our story today is: a) when you have an idea for a new domain name, keep your trap shut in public |
