I received and email on the 22nd…two days ago, that the .com version of a domain which I own the .org and .net of was going to be up for sale soon and they were curious if I was interested in buying it. Cool! I thought…so I clicked the link and filled out their form to be notified when it went up for sale. Got a response; they wanted $997 USD for it. Almost fell out of my chair from laughing so hard.
Next email, yesterday, the 23rd, the domain is going up for sale tomorrow…at $997, so I am still watching but not really interested in buying, that is just too much money. Today I got an email saying that it was for sale for a lower price… $427 minimum offer. Well, that still sucks, so I put down $20 and hit submit anyways.
Few hours later another email…yay! I must be famous. They would sell me the domain, with one year registration for $50 USD. Done, bought, sold, MINE! >< After I bought it I went and looked at the whois information, just out of curiosity and guess what I found. They had bought the domain yesterday, the 23rd.
How can a company offer to sell something that they do not legally own yet? Is there some kind of a law against this? Does not really matter now, the domain is mine mine mine; for 20% of the original cost they wanted. Sometime in the next week or so I will have to finish up the theme, get the majority of the code done in the next few months and see if I can have it done before the next NFL Football season starts in the fall of 2009.
So recently, more like for the last 6 months, my cellphone has been acting up. Even with full signal strength and everything calls are getting dropped, calls fail, and there is lots of static. Hopefully soon I will have a new cell phone but it got me thinking and so I set up Skype again. If anyone wants to add me just let me know and maybe I will add you. :p
I was looking through the logs on my Linux box last night as I do once in a while just to see what or who has been on my computer and noticed something really interesting.
131.162.130.179 – - [01/Feb/2009:01:39:20 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 999 “-” “AcadiaUniversityWebCensusClient”
A web census client, what the hell is that? So I went and looked it up this morning after checking last night to make sure it was not anything serious. Looks like the Jodrey School of Computer Science at Acadia University is doing a census of all the public IP addresses in the world to see if there is a public web server available and if there is they download the homepage, minus the images. Seems like a really neat idea, wonder how long it will take them to visit all 3.7 billion IP addresses they have in the list; have to make sure and check out their website once in a while and see what progress they’ve made.