How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
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Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#2Good for you Jerry! I hope I never forget my renewal myself! Luckily I use Gandi as a registrar and they're good about reminders to their clients!
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#3Good for you Jerry! I hope I never forget my renewal myself! Luckily I use Gandi as a registrar and they're good about reminders to their clients!
I have a recurring notice every 3 months to remind me to check expirations. Takes a few minutes each season and hasn’t failed till now.
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#4Good for you Jerry! I hope I never forget my renewal myself! Luckily I use Gandi as a registrar and they're good about reminders to their clients!
I have Google Domains autorenew my domain for me. Does Gandi have something similar?
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#5I settled on ds.gy after a lot of searching. At the time I was hoping for as short as possible unless you operate a domain (it's one letter off for standard, 2 if you operate a 2 letter TLD like http://ai./) since it maximizes the efficiency of DNS tunneling. I was expecting a lot of similar uses or a log of clever things/url shortners like t.co but what I found was basically every single and most every dual letter domain was being squatted. Made me a little sad until I saw one that matched my initials and decided that was good enough.
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#6This is great and all unless your domain drops and it is caught by something like dropcatch.com or competitors.
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#7Good for you Jerry! I hope I never forget my renewal myself! Luckily I use Gandi as a registrar and they're good about reminders to their clients!
I have Google Domains autorenew my domain for me. Does Gandi have something similar?
I use Gandi - yes they offer auto-renewal of domains, configurable on a per-domain basis.
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#8This is great and all unless your domain drops and it is caught by something like dropcatch.com or competitors.
It was caught by dropcatch actually. I didn't bid in the auction though. Eventually it was released.
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#9Good for you Jerry! I hope I never forget my renewal myself! Luckily I use Gandi as a registrar and they're good about reminders to their clients!
Thank you! I don't remember which registrar I used back then, but I wish I had used something like Gandi. I'm using Google domains now
Re: How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting
#10Some bottom feeder stole my personal domain after I let it lapse and is now literally holding it hostage for $6000 last I checked. http://sergiotapia.me/
I just bought sergio.dev, the squatter can choke on my old domain.