Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

GDB2222

Do I understand correctly that you have 700 domain names PN? That would take me all day just to keep track of.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

You might be interested in a Firefox Add on that shows you what's being tracked on sites.

Just go to http://www.ghostery.com/ and install it, then when you're on a website it shows you in a list in the top right hand corner what tracking is there... e.g. google analytics, etc

It's actually annoying as it's in the way I find ... but you might like it.

Sorry, I didn't see your post earlier for some reason.

it's interesting, but to be honest, I'm not too worried about people tracking me online, I do get a little bit paranoid about some forms of malware, and try to keep general security and my backup strategy quite good. It has got to be a habit, ever since I had to go back to using windoze.

Even then, it's nowhere near as important to me as it used to be, when I was computer banking and doing highly confidential work for clients... these days my work is a lot more bog standard.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

That's in Grampian Gardens - just round the corner from where we lived when we got married. Nearest station would be Cricklewood.

And not very far -about a mile- from where we had a communal house in the late 60s, down in Kilburn.

Had to take a quick poke about. 'Our' house looks reasonably smart, and the road is as I remember it, but the nearby busy thoroughfare has changed greatly.

There's a Tesco Express where the corner shop used to be.
How appropriate....:(

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just go to http://www.1and1.co.uk and buy some. You don't need hosting. Just the domain name.

You WILL need hosting .... just not today/now.

Is it true that domain name sellers track what people search for and then put the prices up?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Do I understand correctly that you have 700 domain names PN? That would take me all day just to keep track of.

No. 700 logins/passwords. Only about 35 domains.

Mostly though they're either just forwarded somewhere, or constantly under construction.

I kind of actively write on just 4 of them.
1] Main one, the original one. Different host entirely to the rest.
2] One with about 30 entries on it, if I don't touch a thing for 4 days it selects the oldest one and republishes it with today's date.... added 3 more entries to that today.
3] Kind of a blog with everything in it that I know, find, etc that might be interesting for other people doing what I do
4] One that seemed a good idea, but I've not found a template I like the look of - and it turns out to be a lot of work to maintain.

Then there are others.
5] Spent the last day or so setting this one up to auto-blog, so I don't have to do anything with it for now.

Then I write articles.... about 250 so far. They need responding to, updating, tweaking, checking. But that's on somebody else's website. I go somewhere and I write on their website.... that's how I won $200 last month.

I have ideas for all the domains, but so little time because all this stuff does take a lot of time and I need to keep on top of what's new too.... I love the "what's new" which is research and reading and downloading and trying things out. I only built what I have to find out how things work really.

Then I get about 200 emails a day too..... most of them I don't read... but I can search for them if I want something.

tomterm8

silvercar wrote: »

Is it true that domain name sellers track what people search for and then put the prices up?

No, and yes.

Legitimate domain name sellers put a hold on the domain, so you will be able to buy it for a limited period of a couple of hours at their fixed price (not sure, I seem to remember it being 24 hours).

In the past, sometimes people have taken notice of these holds, and bought the domain up, as a form of guzumping. Not sure if it still happens these days.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Is it true that domain name sellers track what people search for and then put the prices up?

No.

I'm sure there's a thriving business in keeping on top of what people are searching for, then registering the domains and re-selling them, either as developed sites or just the name.

I have a friend with over 300 domains, he was offered about £500k for one once and turned it down.

I have another friend who, aged 18, was offered $200k for one he'd paid just $4k for and was just mucking about with one page of !!!!!! on it. He came to ask me what he should do, I said "SELL!" and he did. Now he plays with penny stocks and is coming up roses too. jammy bugg4h.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have a friend with over 300 domains, he was offered about £500k for one once and turned it down.

I have another friend who, aged 18, was offered $200k for one he'd paid just $4k for.

And I just get someone putting 'Shropshire' on the end of the one I thought up! :mad:

Life just ain't fair....:(:(

lostinrates

The ''new cat'' is a girl.....vet gave her a general before checking..oops. She's got poor kidney readings and has had an infection recently...probably when I thought she had something like bladder infection...but is otherwise well. she's also not 12 as I had been told, but just looks very old for ''possibly about 5''. so far from being and old boy she's a young girl.

but pink whistley is furious. Any time I talk to the ''new cat'' Duck Whistley starts a song and dance routine so OTT it practically includes Jazz hands. She also makes that noise that means ''birds'' a lot at Duck, but not when other people talk to duck, only when I do.

vivatifosi

Message for Silvercar:

If you live where I think you live, the council responsible has some info re the school transport policy changes and how to have your say on its front page at the moment.