Domain Name Registration

I just got an email from “domainrenewal-online.com,” letting me know that “It is time to renew your domain name.” With all the domains I own, I get these emails all the time. The problem is, domainrenewal-online.com is not my domain registrar. I’ve never used them. Not once. Not ever. This led me to believe that they [...]

Are you sitting on a domain name or two (or three), just waiting for the right opportunity to cash in? I wouldn’t call myself a speculator … I’m more of a collector, with more domain names than I need. I’ve been thinking about unloading a few. Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to [...]

All is well in the continuing saga of my recently expired domains. I successfully snatched my treasured domain names from the jaws of death with Enom’s “Club Drop” service. A mere thirty bucks saved each domain. I’ll chalk it up to experience. I may have gained a few gray hairs, but thankfully I didn’t lose [...]

I came very close to losing a pair of treasured domain names this week. I’ve been sitting on (not squatting, mind you) these two domains for a few years. Boy was I shocked when I logged into my favorite cheap domain registrar to find the two domain names missing from my control list. [...]

This morning, I helped out a friend with some domains that she had recently registered. I was aghast to learn that she had registered those domains with Network Solutions. While all of my techie friends moved on to more reasonable domain name registrars long ago, this friend isn’t so techie. Consequently, she lost a nice [...]

Who the heck is GoDaddy and why should I care?