Sunday, August 22, 2010

At last: gaybanker.com :-)

Back in early 2007, I blogged that someone was cybersquatting the natural domain name for this blog. A company had paid $200 for gaybanker.com, so no doubt if I'd wanted to acquire it they'd have wanted to charge me at least that much.

In fact, I didn't even bother to contact them. Instead I waited. The credit crunch and the sub-prime crisis probably helped by making bankers unpopular, because eventually the domain name registration of gaybanker.com expired. So just over a week ago I decided to buy it, for the standard low price of a new domain name. If you now go to gaybanker.com, you get forwarded to this blog, and similarly I've now got a gaybanker.com email address too. So what my grandmother told me is true after all, patience is a virtue, even in fast-moving cyberspace!

7 comments:

close encounters said...

well done !

how about a .net or a .org or even a .co.uk ??

now that you've started, you might as well continue !

Phunk Factor said...

Congrats!!!

And yea...might as well go the whole length!! ;)

Harvey said...

congratulations!!

Shawn L said...

Congratulations! but just fyi if I type gayba in address, internet auto suggests will still pop up the blogspot address first ;)

Mind Of Mine said...

Congratulations, once I realised my blog was a mainstay I immediately bought my domain (http://mindofmine.co.uk)

Do you love your email address.

BosGuy said...

Apparently patience can be rewarding. Well done.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! I suspect many of us would like to have an email with this domain too:)