What’s in a name?

Back in early January, I planned to revamp and relaunch my blog: The one you’re looking at now. As part of that, I was researching various domain names. I wanted something simple to remember, easy to type, and vaguely Eve-related.

Initially, I found that minmatar.com had expired from its previous owner in December. Being the noob that I was (and arguably still am), I waited a little while in the hopes it would get deleted. After a couple of weeks I started researching the admin and ‘pendingDelete’ periods and calculated that the domain would become available at some point on 28th February.

Not really wanting to wait all that long to relaunch – I had things I wanted to blog about! – I went with an old favourite, minmatart.com, because both my main characters are Minmatarts if I’m being totally honest. It also happens to be the name of my super-old webcomic about Eve that I started building at the very beginning of 2004: Minmatarts.

Minmatarts logo

Logo for the titular Minmatarts webcomic way back in 2004

I checked up on minmatar.com yesterday. At midday it was still pending. 2pm still pending. Then I had to go out and run some errands in town before the shops shut. 5pm, status: OK. ‘Ah well’ thinks I, you snooze you lose, and at least I wasn’t hanging on it all that time before starting my blog: That would have made me grumpy and at the same time been a stupid mistake to make.

I decided to check it out; see what the new owners were up to… Domain reseller. They don’t even intend to do anything with it other than sell it. That’s just depressing.

I investigated further, out of idle curiosity, to see how much they wanted for this ‘valuable commodity’. They don’t, but you can enter a bid to buy it from them… for a minimum bid of $1000. Bastards.

Long story short: I don’t so much care that I didn’t get the Minmatar domain name, but it makes me sad that it won’t be used properly – by someone in the Eve community.

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9 thoughts on “What’s in a name?”

  1. Balsakian McGiggles
    01st Mar '10 at 3:16 pm

    Oh that’s a shame. Hopefullythey will lower the price or move on. Domain resellers piss me off. >.<

    • 01st Mar '10 at 5:01 pm

      Aye. The other possibility is they are holding it for someone that back-ordered, and the person who did so has yet to transfer it to their site. At least that’s what I’m hoping. 🙂

      I’d also like to take this moment to say how awesome your character’s name is!

      • Balsakian McGiggles
        11th Mar '10 at 3:48 am

        Haha thanks, Can’t deny, MIB II was an influence!

  2. balsakianmcgiggles
    01st Mar '10 at 3:16 pm

    Oh that's a shame. Hopefullythey will lower the price or move on. Domain resellers piss me off. >.<

  3. 01st Mar '10 at 5:01 pm

    Aye. The other possibility is they are holding it for someone that back-ordered, and the person who did so has yet to transfer it to their site. At least that's what I'm hoping. 🙂

    I'd also like to take this moment to say how awesome your character's name is!

  4. Balsakian McGiggles
    11th Mar '10 at 3:48 am

    Haha thanks, Can't deny, MIB II was an influence!

  5. Oldfrogger's broda
    04th Apr '10 at 8:29 am

    I think that I have the solution for you, the domain name you may register yourself
    (eve-mail Oldfrogger’s broda – I will drop you two unoccupied names you may want to use for good)

  6. Oldfrogger's broda
    04th Apr '10 at 8:29 am

    I think that I have the solution for you, the domain name you may register yourself
    (eve-mail Oldfrogger's broda – I will drop you two unoccupied names you may want to use for good)

  7. Oldfrogger's broda
    04th Apr '10 at 8:29 am

    I think that I have the solution for you, the domain name you may register yourself
    (eve-mail Oldfrogger's broda – I will drop you two unoccupied names you may want to use for good)

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