Okay, wazzup wid dat...

[ceagle]

No April Fools.. here's a serious teeng I been wondering a long time.. and what's amazing to me is how far-reaching this is...

Why does peoples get a website, and not protect their name by getting the matching .NET and .ORG and a few others maybe? *scratches head*.. :|

It's not like anyone has to feel like they're alone either...
Elvis.com lost the .net and .org to some Belgian fellow...
Coke.com covered their tushes.. but Pepsi.com didn't...
and the biggest goof in all internet history, our own government secured whitehouse.gov ... but not the other sites.. and at least one of them became a porn site for many years! LOL...

And so I ask myself why.. when it's only a couple or so dollars more to get the other sites, why don't more people and organizations do it? *big blank-eyed look* We pay hundreds to protect our cars and homes, why not take a small insurance policy on our web identity? 8|

Just one of them things that puzzle me... *peep*

In case you ever have designs on a web name, I strongly recommend getting a few just like it, if you want to protect your identity or your brand.

And here's hoping your April 1sts all go well and without too much quicksand! ^V^

Comments

[brokkentwolf.livejournal.com]

I could have had Timberwolf.com and .net at the time I registered my .org domain.

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Well, if people snag all the .*** variations on their domain name... why bother having those variations at all?

.NET is supposed to go to ISPs & other network systems, and purely informational groups. .ORG is supposed to go to non-commercial organizations.

The problem is, that is no longer inforced. Which makes the other designations basically useless.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

eeeeep!.. yesh, summa this stuff is so dayum tragic it's hard to take ;_; ! *hugs ya all up with consoling wingpats*..

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*nods* yep... that's the point. When the Internic itself officially unraveled the guideline stipulations, it made it all-the-more important to snag the ones dear and useful to us, before the vultures could feed, so to speak.. :/
And feed they did.

In fact the feeding is nearly all automated now, if you drop your guard for a moment, they dive in with pointless fervor. Some folks I know who just (voluntarily) let their old name slide (something like freeglebloggleblooogleflopple.net - something that noone is gonna need to scoop right up right away), the auto-bots went "Hey! ..someone had this once upon a time.. it MUST be important!!" ... so now it's taken simply for the fact that it was in service once. ;/

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

If its a company I'm never going to go to .org, .net or .biz If it's a personal page I prefer it not to have the .com ;)

*follows you about with a pillow needing some feathers* :)

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

oooo... I'll save em for ya whenever I moult 8> ! *waggle*