Domain Name
I just received an offer to buy Gerard’s domain name “americandigest.org”. No price mentioned nor was the offer from Neo (I wouldn’t expect it to be). I’m not inclined to buy it, I wouldn’t use it – I’d prefer the name to fade away. On the other hand, controlling the name would keep it from being used for other purposes – assuming someone would purchase and use it. (A “normal” registration costs about $20/year or less).
I have no reason to think this is anything more than a first-chance and friendly offer.
Just letting y’all know …
Interesting. Too bad you can’t buy it and lock it, or mark it with
irreplaceable somehow.
Yes, inneresting. That it could be used for nefarious purposes.
Or, could be parked with a comment and a pik of Gerard:
Go here (link): https://newamericandigest.org
Who did you get the offer from, Register.com?
A seemingly private individual. I’m going to contact Neo about it.
I could buy it if the cost is nominal. I’ll see.
More as I find out more – could be a scam
Yes, be careful. I’m in for $50 if you decide to get it.
In the late 90’s when I had a junk website, you know, one of them “template” factory’s where your URL comes after a long line of text and was a pain to tell people how to get to it, I got a number of offers for domains of my last name with exorbitant costs or blatant criminality. Our son had just graduated from college with a degree in computer science so I gave him my checkbook and the OK to make it so, using my last name as the domain name.
On the off chance it was something irregular Gerard set-up, I asked Neo. Nope. Same ol’, same ol’. Haven’t heard back from the person – they may read this site – but you can check to see if the domain is available. I don’t know that I’d pay $50 for a domain name though. Maybe for $20. I’ll let you know if I do hear back in case you’re interested in buying the name. I like your idea of a forwarding link though.
It’s a good domain name. Somebody will buy it and use it. The trick is finding a reputable dealer in domain names. Normally when you set up a website, you tell your website service provider what you want as your domain name and they buy it for you. Unless you know how that works, you’ll get scammed trying to buy it yourself.
The general rule applies: never never ever don’t even think about it click on unsolicited offers from anyone for any reason no matter how tempting.
It used to be you could “whois” it yourself, and attempt to contact the owner yourself. Now there’s all these web service providers that will run the whois for you, and then instantly attempt to register the unclaimed domain to themselves, and then sell it to you for a markup. If there’s any way to make a buck fair or foul on the internet, there’s already tons of people doing it.
Just to finish up. “Mary K” (generic gmail address) replied to me today. $1800 will buy <americandigest.org> for life. Such a fine joke.
I told “her” to go away. Rats crawling through the darkness, visible every so often down in the weeds.
For life?
Ask her how much 5 years worth would cost.
Maff:
Mary K has no idea of how you are, so suppose she is led to believe you have at least another 40 years of “life” left in ya.
Therefore $1800 / 40 years of life = $45 per year x 5 years = $225.00
Or
Ask Mary K for proof that she actually owns that domain because, ya know, there have been rumors of scams going on.
For others here that may not know, there is no such thing as “for life” when it comes to website domains. Typically the domain is paid for yearly and sometimes multi-yearly. My site is registered with register.com and I pay them every 3 years. The next time it is due, and I don’t pay, it no longer exits as it was. Kinda like when you don’t pay your house rent. So Mary K has already established her untrustworthiness by making a claim she can’t deliver.
Further, if Mary K did sell the domain to DT for $225 she can never come back and make claim for she no longer owns it.
She’s a scammer and that’s the sort of thing Trumps entourage should be cracking down on, not huffing and puffing all over the planet on retarded stuff.
Likewise the motherfuckers that try to scam me daily through my phone with fraudulent offers of loans everything else you can imagine. Yes, even “blue” pill offers. Email scams are pandemic in gmail. My bank account was “broken” twice in the past 5 years necessitating redoing everything.
All of this shit’s been going on for more than a quarter century but instead of securing the country in all ways they seek only to commit domestic and international crimes by the thousands.
gs, you have a website?
Yes, but I took it offline a month ago due to the amount of harassments I was getting because of it. Seems to be an abundance of people out there with no workable skills except to contact people via email and tell them their website ain’t worth AF but they can get it to the top of the search engines if I hire them.
20 or more times a day.
There really is no point in me having a website any more. I have never received any business from it, simply because ALL of my business comes from word-of-mouth referrals.
10-20 years ago I used to upload clients plans in pdf format to my site then send them the URL so they could download them at their convenience. Then about 5 years ago clients were telling me they can’t download the files to the phone and wanting me to tell them why that is. How TF am I supposed to know? So I stopped doing that. Seems nobody has a computer any more but everyone is addicted to a handheld 4″ screen. I just don’t get it.
The URL for my site is http://www.myname.com and I don’t want anyone else to have it so I will continue to pay for it. Also, my email comes through it (ghost@myname.com) so until I can find an acceptable work around for my email I’ll leave it as is.
In general, my wife and I are planning on shutting down our respective businesses later this year – maybe next month. The level of difficulty to do our work has become unbearable. For me it has been a surge in gov’t regulations regarding everything construction to where I am becoming more and more an administrative assistant to the gov’t and less of a designer. Basically, the gov’t has taken the fun out of my work – the very reason why I still do it 53 years after I started. But that’s over now.
For my wife, the level of disgusting subject matter in the new books she creates indexes for is through the roof. My wife is a nice person and it wears me out knowing the sort of just plain nastiness she has to wade through in what the “Big 3” publishers are shoving out onto the market.
Just last week she had to do an index on a book for a negro author that had “on the down low” in the title. Don’t look them 4 words up.
So, this world can go straight to hell in a proverbial handbasket and my wife and I will just let it go and try to enjoy our remaining days on the “Ghost Compound” the best we can.
“Every journey starts with a single step.”
— gs, 2099
So, this world can go straight to hell in a proverbial handbasket and my wife and I will just let it go and try to enjoy our remaining days on the “Ghost Compound” the best we can.
Yep – same here. But I enjoy doing this web site. At least until I run out of pictures, tales, and fabrications to pass along. Y’all keep it interesting.
You make it interesting to start with, senor.
I’m so sorry business et al has become such a hastle for both you and your wife. I’m glad we have you here.