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    Hello- I did a search for a particular .com and found out through registrars who the owner of said .com was. I phoned him and found out right away what kind of **ick people can be. He wasn't using it and wasn't interested in selling (he though he had yahoo.com or something).

    Well- registrars said that the domain name should expire 2 years later (of course), which would be Dec. 8 2000(2 days ago). It is still unavailable and I was just wondering if it could be that their servers are not yet updated, or they are trying to send this guy his bill for renewel.

    Does anybody have any first hand experience w/ this kind of deal.

    Sorry for the long story.

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    he thought he had yahoo.com or something? you mean the person thought that yahoo.com was their domain? sounds like an idiot to me if he thinks yahoo.com is his. must be why the domain he does have is not being used.

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    Sorry- I meant that he tought he had a name as valuable as something like yahoo.com

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    well if he's not interested in selling it then I geuss you should look for a different name. Not much you can do.

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    and if you can't get the .com address, get a .net, or .ws-simple as that (if they are available)

    I wanted mg33.com when I got my site started, but it was taken, it's not used either, so I got mg33.net, problem solved.

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    Smile

    what about .co.uk?

    I found that razormedia.com was taken so I bought the .co.uk

    it was cheaper too

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    talk with your registar. they might me able to help you in this matter.

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    Originally posted by RazoRmedia
    what about .co.uk?

    I found that razormedia.com was taken so I bought the .co.uk

    it was cheaper too
    Why would u want a .co.uk addy if u aint a brit thiugh - Bear that in mind! I'm gonna go for http://www.the-enigma.net

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    Originally posted by TheEnigma
    Originally posted by RazoRmedia
    what about .co.uk?

    I found that razormedia.com was taken so I bought the .co.uk

    it was cheaper too
    Why would u want a .co.uk addy if u aint a brit thiugh - Bear that in mind! I'm gonna go for http://www.the-enigma.net
    Have u looked at that site mate? Its already gone. HA HA HA, have a look at it nigma!

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    Originally posted by RazoRmedia
    Originally posted by TheEnigma
    Originally posted by RazoRmedia
    what about .co.uk?

    I found that razormedia.com was taken so I bought the .co.uk

    it was cheaper too
    Why would u want a .co.uk addy if u aint a brit thiugh - Bear that in mind! I'm gonna go for http://www.the-enigma.net
    Have u looked at that site mate? Its already gone. HA HA HA, have a look at it nigma!
    Niiiiiiiice!!!!

    And the funny thing is - I hadnt even looked at that before!

    I have impecable taste in URL's!

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    hehehe...I snatched up my domain about a month ago...
    http://www.dowenger.com

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    BO****S! Some git even has http://www.theenigma.net aswell - and it looks quoite cool! Bit o flash on there - could be my alter ego that im trying to represe!

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    hey enigma...

    would you mind sharing the html for the url forwarding that you used on your site dancestream?





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    dIgital pHoto dude! TheEnigma's Avatar
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    Dont ask me - thats all on ruises site - I cant get into it!

    email him!
    AVKLINKEN@IMPRESS.NL

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    Hey dowenger, is this what ur after?

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://your new site url">

    or am I just confused

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    just one question, a wonderful name though it is why would anyone besides you want http://********yourbiglobster.com? Surely there isn't that much of a big lobster on the internet market is there?

    ;-)

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    you want names? check out this guy's collection
    http://www.datapimp.org

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    But This still dont help me to get http://www.enigma.anything does it!

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