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<p>[QUOTE="skippy, post: 695960, member: 5296"]A little advice, about domain names.</p><p>Be careful about telling/asking others, in an open forum, what your domain is/should be BEFORE you register it. There are people out there that will search out such things and register them BEFORE you do. Then hold them for monetary ransom essentially. I had a co-worker that this happened to. And I've read about other "domain name squatters" that do other similar tactics. I've got a domain squatter sitting on one of my domain names I owned for years. I had a very good website with many hits on it over the years on this domain and I accidentally let the registration period lapse and it was snatched up by the domain squatter. Now there is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm" rel="nofollow">link farm</a> (Wikipedia) on that domain and the current owner won't sale for a decent amount.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily I had another "backup" domain to use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="skippy, post: 695960, member: 5296"]A little advice, about domain names. Be careful about telling/asking others, in an open forum, what your domain is/should be BEFORE you register it. There are people out there that will search out such things and register them BEFORE you do. Then hold them for monetary ransom essentially. I had a co-worker that this happened to. And I've read about other "domain name squatters" that do other similar tactics. I've got a domain squatter sitting on one of my domain names I owned for years. I had a very good website with many hits on it over the years on this domain and I accidentally let the registration period lapse and it was snatched up by the domain squatter. Now there is a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm"]link farm[/URL] (Wikipedia) on that domain and the current owner won't sale for a decent amount. Luckily I had another "backup" domain to use.[/QUOTE]
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