I enquired how much it'd be to purchase ukrm.net. Here's the reply. --- My name is Patrick Calvoni. I'm a domain consultant with Buydomains.com. I'm contacting you to ensure that you received the price quote for the domain: ukrm.net ukrm.net is currently valued at $5439.32, and can be purchased with a one-time fee with any major credit card, paypal, or wire transfer. Transfer of the domain is fast and easy. We'll send you an email with a unique username and password. You are welcome to use your web host and registrar of choice, or we can set this up for you. Please let me know if you have any questions about the pricing or the purchase process of ukrm.net.
Heh. As if. Ask him if he's sure about the 32 cents. Or just don't respond, and see if he comes back in a week or so with a reduced offer.
platypus wibbled forthrightly: I've chosen the latter to see what happens. Mind you, if we all ask about it, we could probably raise the price to something around the 1M$ mark.
Thieving twat. By the way, i've already registered http://www.ukrm.org/ so use that if you like, i've not uploaded the new site yet. Cheers, Paul.
Yeah some cybersquatting **** did that to my domain, because the people I originally registered it with didn't bother to email me saying it was due to expire. Took me ages to track them down - it seems to have changed hands a few times. Now it's some architect?! in California who owns it and wants $500 for it. I called him a cheeky git.
I wasn't busy, so looked up how much it was likely to cost to purchase a .net domain via LCN (low cost names). ?20.00. Using the site you are looking at to purchase the UKRM.NET name and wanting to purchase my own ..NET name came out at almost the same price, less the cents. (When my own domain name is due for renewal I receive post from someone else 'offering' to keep it for me for hundreds of pounds, but it costs less than a fiver for 2 years to renew with LCN). Shop around. -- Lesley Residing in the Capital of Culture 2008 CBR600FW Peugeot 206 S SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster) BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12 BONY#54P BOB#18
The whole domain registration business is as bent as a 3 bob note anyway. From the start it's been wrong. You should be able to register a domain and then it's yours, you bought it, not rented it, for good. No-one can cybersquat you, you own it. Instead it's like popping out on holiday and forgetting to pay the rent one month and returning to find someone's moved in and chucked all your stuff out onto the street while you were gone. -- | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack| | |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you| | |can't move, with no hope of rescue. | | Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been | | in |good to you so far... | | Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: Which, of course, assumes people actually _want_ domain names for life. They don't always. Companies go south. Individuals get bored. Projects come to an end. Why should somebody who wants "ProjectNameForAYear.com" pay the same as "BigCorporationsNameForEver.com"? Nah. Daft. You want to make sure you keep the domain name? Simple. Use a reputable reg who won't "forget" to notify you, register it for as long as you can, and keep track of when it's due. Then there's the whole malicious registration mullarkey - I've re- registered domains that've been originally registered by somebody who's used 'em to take a pop, then got bored and gone away. Let 'em expire, wait for the chancers to get bored, then register 'em afresh.
wrote: Nonsense. If we stick with your dreadful analogy, it's more like popping out on holiday for three months when your tenancy agreement is due for renewal and wondering why you don't have a flat to live in when you get back. I've had domains for 12 years now and never lost one because I forgot to renew it.
That used to be true back in the day, at least for co.uk domains. My work had one for years before some registrar chased us up and said that clearly selling them for life was a mistake and not a viable business solution and really we should be paying annually, and would have to from that point onwards. We had to pay up or lose the domain.
