{"id":908,"date":"2010-08-07T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-08-07T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T20:51:23","slug":"domain-time-machine-if-you-could-turn-the-domain-clock-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domain-time-machine-if-you-could-turn-the-domain-clock-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Time Machine: if you could turn the Domain Clock back"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a few months of research – not to mention, arguments with my wife at that time<\/em> – I registered my first domain in February of 1997.<\/p>\n

Until then, researching domains for availability was a passtime; the kind of window shopping<\/strong> that was fun back then – and a realization of wasted opportunities later on.<\/p>\n

They say that one does not regret the things they did, only what they did not do. And with that in mind, it’s good to remember that while you cannot rewrite history, you can definitely avoid repeating it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If I could turn the clock back to that period in time that I had a clear advantage over others in the field, I’d borrow, beg and even steal the $100<\/strong> per two year registration fees needed!<\/p>\n

During 1994 and 1995 the number of generics available was 90%<\/strong> versus 0.90% now. Unfortunately, I could not spend the money I didn’t have and to this day I am left with the taste of remembering the “Domain is available<\/em>” phrase on my 14″ monochrome green monitor.<\/p>\n

Rolling forward a couple of years, when Network Solutions was not the only player in the domain game and domains became affordable.<\/p>\n

With GoDaddy’s registrations costing $14 a pop I registered a few “random” domains; it wasn’t until 2001 that DomainsBot came out with its daily newsletter of expired domains that all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n

I make a reference to “hell breaking loose” because my domainer impetus was once again slowed down by my beloved spouse, who did not share my vision of registering every damn keyword available through the droplists.<\/p>\n

To avoid confrontation, I eventually stopped registering domains from those lists, painfully watching<\/strong> .com, .net and .org domains become available – until someone else would snatch them days or weeks later.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, I did look them up consequently,<\/strong> out of pure masochism perhaps – or to prove my point that my own vision was just fine and it was actually shared by others<\/strong> around the world.<\/p>\n

Regardless, as domain owners we end up having domains that were once meant to be projects, that were not intended to be collection cards in our deck of memorabilia. And once we realize that someone else might actually utilize these domains, we sell – as long as the money is right.<\/p>\n

Having just sold one of my very first hand-registrations from that DomainsBot list, I can’t but remember the hundreds of additional domains that I could have registered back then; if only I had bigger “balls<\/em>” and ignored the nagging I sustained daily over my purchases.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is<\/strong>, those of us that were lucky to have had a clear head and the ability to go through that window of opportunity that opened are able to tell stories today. Whether we got that domain gem for a registration fee, or simply experienced its availability we can still say that “we were there”.<\/p>\n

Turning the clock back to the early days of domaining is impossible<\/strong>; we simply have to learn a lesson and move forward<\/strong>, onto bigger and better things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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