What are the odds?

SteveDallas · 01-26-2006, 10:41 PM

Thursday: Our director of PR, CFO, and some other people meet with the local convention & visitors bureau to talk about promoting a new building as a conference center. One recommendation: Have a separate marketing presence for the conference center as opposed to the rest of the institution.

The following Wednesday: I'm sitting in a meeting where I hear this repeated. I think, "Oh, we should get a domain for email addresses and maybe a web site." When the meeting breaks I speak to the PR director (who was also there) and we decide to go for somethingorother.com and .org. I go back to my office and go to register the domains.

.org is available. .com is already taken.

It was created on Monday.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-31-2006, 06:52 PM

Who got it?

SteveDallas · 01-31-2006, 07:59 PM

That's the hell of it... the whois doesn't say... and if I look at it now, it says it was created this past Saturday (not the original date). And if I try to whois it at the whois server belonging to the registrar in question, it says there's no information available.

I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure it's a scam.

Elspode · 01-31-2006, 09:51 PM

Sounds like someone with an inside track to the deal got out there and registered those first. Did you try .biz?

xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2006, 04:34 AM

SD, did it work?
Will you be able to make a killing on the name?
Have they found out it's you?

SteveDallas · 02-03-2006, 08:12 AM

Verrry funny Bruce.

Well I went to the joker.com web site, where I buy mnost of my domains, and looked at the status again. And just for the hell of it I sent an email to support & said, I tried to get this domain, it said it was taken, but when I clicked for the whois information it says it wasn't found. The answer came back, gee, it's not taken, you should be able to do it. So I went back in and everything worked.

When I had visited the domain before there was a page from Revenue Direct there. So I dunno what was going on. But it's fixed now. (For the record, we could have gone along quit nicely with the .org address.)

xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2006, 01:48 PM

dot org? Who ever goes to dot org sites?

Torrere · 02-04-2006, 01:29 AM

I bet half the people on this forum have never gone to a dot org site.

richlevy · 02-04-2006, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Torrere

I bet half the people on this forum have never gone to a dot org site.

Wait till the new top level domains become available and Tony can get the Cellar.nut registration.

01-26-2006, 10:41 PM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	What are the odds? Thursday: Our director of PR, CFO, and some other people meet with the local convention & visitors bureau to talk about promoting a new building as a conference center. One recommendation: Have a separate marketing presence for the conference center as opposed to the rest of the institution. The following Wednesday: I'm sitting in a meeting where I hear this repeated. I think, "Oh, we should get a domain for email addresses and maybe a web site." When the meeting breaks I speak to the PR director (who was also there) and we decide to go for somethingorother.com and .org. I go back to my office and go to register the domains. .org is available. .com is already taken. It was created on Monday. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

01-31-2006, 06:52 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Who got it? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-31-2006, 09:51 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Sounds like someone with an inside track to the deal got out there and registered those first. Did you try .biz? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-03-2006, 04:34 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	SD, did it work? Will you be able to make a killing on the name? Have they found out it's you? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-03-2006, 01:48 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	dot org? Who ever goes to dot org sites? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-31-2006, 07:59 PM	#3
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	That's the hell of it... the whois doesn't say... and if I look at it now, it says it was created this past Saturday (not the original date). And if I try to whois it at the whois server belonging to the registrar in question, it says there's no information available. I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure it's a scam.

02-03-2006, 08:12 AM	#6
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Verrry funny Bruce. Well I went to the joker.com web site, where I buy mnost of my domains, and looked at the status again. And just for the hell of it I sent an email to support & said, I tried to get this domain, it said it was taken, but when I clicked for the whois information it says it wasn't found. The answer came back, gee, it's not taken, you should be able to do it. So I went back in and everything worked. When I had visited the domain before there was a page from Revenue Direct there. So I dunno what was going on. But it's fixed now. (For the record, we could have gone along quit nicely with the .org address.)

02-04-2006, 01:29 AM	#8
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	I bet half the people on this forum have never gone to a dot org site.

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