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Archive for February, 2006


Monday, February 27th, 2006

Recently The Register published a news story (and another) about a man (Paul Dell) who is being sued by the computer manufacturer (Dell Computers) for acts of “parasitism and of unfair competition”.
It seems Dell, Inc feels that the Spain based web designer’s domain name (dellwebsites.com) is deliberately infringing on their trademark because the company allegedly [...]

Friday, February 24th, 2006

So it turns midnight and what am I thinking of? Registering another domain name!
This time it’s a pair of cute little dot sc domains that stuck in my brain (.sc is the ccTLD for the country of Seychelles).
Here was the thought process:
I was getting ready to send a newsletter for one of my websites and [...]

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

In another case of corporate brand murder, the folks at NameIntelligence are changing their whois site from whois.sc to domaintools.com.
The reasoning behind the name change seems pretty simple. While whois.sc was short and easy to type, the domaintools.com name helps show that the new site has a whole host of great domain tools.
The new site [...]

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I wish I could program.
I have all these ideas for cool new/useful websites (hence my plethora of domainnames), but I don’t have programming skills to make it happen. Used to be that all you needed was some HTML and you could make a pretty cool website.
I tried learning php, but that didn’t work out. I’m [...]

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

If you’re a domain name junkie, you’ve come to the right place :)
This post serves as the first official domainjunkies fix and the obligatory “first post” welcome.
So “Hello World”, here I am. My domain is Rodney and I’m a domainjunkie.