Comments on: Back in action http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/ Random stuff that I think matters. Int'l politics, linguistics, China, int'l development, society&tech, culture... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jeff Rybak http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15563 Jeff Rybak Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:23:13 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15563 Hey Well, the ad site, as you say, would just be some domainer's parking page. They put that up (as I'm sure you know) for the trickle of pay-per-click (ppc) traffic it can generate. It's a simple business model, but it works. Park up enough domains that way, and if the income even just pays for the cost of registration, plus a tiny bit, it can add up. Then flip what you can reselling. I'm interested in the fact that the link you received wouldn't work. Could be a glitch of some sort, on either end, but there's some nasty shit going on out there with registrar's themselves reregistering expiring domains that belonged to their clients. They wouldn't be using the same business name, likely, but it can still be the same players. Really nasty stuff. I could look into it if you're interested in making a case of it, but given the circumstances it's probably just as easy to let it go. Hey

Well, the ad site, as you say, would just be some domainer’s parking page. They put that up (as I’m sure you know) for the trickle of pay-per-click (ppc) traffic it can generate. It’s a simple business model, but it works. Park up enough domains that way, and if the income even just pays for the cost of registration, plus a tiny bit, it can add up. Then flip what you can reselling.

I’m interested in the fact that the link you received wouldn’t work. Could be a glitch of some sort, on either end, but there’s some nasty shit going on out there with registrar’s themselves reregistering expiring domains that belonged to their clients. They wouldn’t be using the same business name, likely, but it can still be the same players. Really nasty stuff. I could look into it if you’re interested in making a case of it, but given the circumstances it’s probably just as easy to let it go.

]]> By: Houshuang http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15561 Houshuang Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:56:50 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15561 Actually what happened was that my registration expired, and the domain host (uhsdomains.com) sent me an email saying I needed to renew, giving me a URL. However that URL was consistently down during the week in which I tried it repeatedly, and when contacting them by email I received no answer. When I finally managed to get a hold of them, several weeks later, my domain had lapsed and been replaced by an ad site, and it would cost me 150$ to buy it back. They would also not release it and let me transfer it to someone else. Either way, it's not as bad as it could have been, since I had not been updating my blog for about half a year before this happened, so I had lost most of the visitors anyway - being in Indonesia. Now I registered the domain with my webhost, site5.com, whose customer service I've been very happy with so far. Actually what happened was that my registration expired, and the domain host (uhsdomains.com) sent me an email saying I needed to renew, giving me a URL. However that URL was consistently down during the week in which I tried it repeatedly, and when contacting them by email I received no answer. When I finally managed to get a hold of them, several weeks later, my domain had lapsed and been replaced by an ad site, and it would cost me 150$ to buy it back. They would also not release it and let me transfer it to someone else.

Either way, it’s not as bad as it could have been, since I had not been updating my blog for about half a year before this happened, so I had lost most of the visitors anyway - being in Indonesia. Now I registered the domain with my webhost, site5.com, whose customer service I’ve been very happy with so far.

]]> By: Jeff Rybak http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15560 Jeff Rybak Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:50:41 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/2007/08/29/back-in-action/#comment-15560 Regarding the loss of your previous domain, that really sucks. I'm sure you fell victim to tasting and the TBR (to be released) lists from the registry. What happened was someone saw your name coming up, probably tested it to see if it had a certain minimum of left-over traffic (tasting - for a period so short that it cost nothing and the transaction could be reversed), and then paid for it. The good news is that the only value in that domain is the residual traffic from your blog, and the chance you'd pay to get it back. So really, the asshole who bought it is out the cost of registration until he finally figures out that you don't care. Sometimes, I really do hate this business. Regarding the loss of your previous domain, that really sucks. I’m sure you fell victim to tasting and the TBR (to be released) lists from the registry. What happened was someone saw your name coming up, probably tested it to see if it had a certain minimum of left-over traffic (tasting - for a period so short that it cost nothing and the transaction could be reversed), and then paid for it.

The good news is that the only value in that domain is the residual traffic from your blog, and the chance you’d pay to get it back. So really, the asshole who bought it is out the cost of registration until he finally figures out that you don’t care.

Sometimes, I really do hate this business.

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