Well you can't double-up. One a domain is registered, it's registered until the ...

... registration period runs out. ANd then the registrant gets first dibs on renewal.

What a load of comapnies have done is spend a stack of money on registering domains, with the sole intention of selling them on at a profit.

I read a couple of years ago that something liek 99.9% of dictionary words had already been registered.

As an example you might want to register bigblackears.com. Now, if I'd anticipated a demand for that domain-name I might have registered it in advance, and when you go to bigblackears.com I've whacked up a big sign saying "if you want this domain name it's yours for #OODLES.00p".

The point being, why spend #OODLES.00p to some rip off merchant when you might be able to get something similar like bigfluffyears.com for #25 for two years.

You get me, blood?

Posted By: Arizona Bay on February 13th 2006 at 10:41:33

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  - Personal... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Feb 13, 10:32:13
- I used to make a living with this sort of advice ... but here goes. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:33:25
  - I can do hosting for you mate, if you like. (General Chat) - Arganth, Feb 13, 10:04:36
    - Oooo, harsh times ahead... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Feb 13, 10:19:52
  - That link buggered up becuase it's in brackets. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:36:09
    - Thanks AB... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Feb 13, 09:40:37
      - Oh, and what do you mean by others having problems with .com? (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:54:53
        
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        Oh right. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 10:18:55
        
        HOw do you mean?.. (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Feb 13, 10:33:39
        
        Well you can't double-up. One a domain is registered, it's registered until the ... (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 10:41:33
        
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      - Right, well, this would be my advice. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:45:34
  - Just for price ideas... (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:34:47
- email me re this, lots of rip-off stuff about (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 13, 09:20:05
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  - you gonna sell him smellywhimsy.co.uk? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 13, 09:26:20
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