bahuma: the blog

Over the recent months I have been watching the bahuma.com domain name. Bahuma.com was bought way back in 2001 by a guy in the UK which redirected it to his main website. It was around this same time that I was thinking of upgrading my dyndns.org address to a to a top level address (.com/.net/.org). His purchase sort of upset me (read as pissed me off) and made me jump on bahuma.net.

Bahuma.com actually expired in April this year but when domains expire they go through a series of stages before they are released back for sale to the public. While the domain was sitting in PENDINGDELETE status, I got an email from Webname solution giving me an ‘exclusive’ offer to buy the domain for US $200! I checked the whois again and it showed that the domain was still in PENDINGDELETE status with MelbourneIT. Webname solution didn’t even own the domain so I hit up google and it showed that they are well known scammers.

Anyway, I kept on watching it and I must have missed and it turns out that I was not quick enough as it was picked up by a domain holding company. The funny thing is that they want me to buy it from them for US $60. The funny thing is that over the years I have become really attached to my .net domain and to be frank (hi, my name is frank) I don’t care if I don’t have the .com :D I would have purchased it for the normal price ($6-7) but no more than that. I am more than happy to wait until the domain holding companies waste their money and finally give up and release the domain.

It was also funny that today I got another scam email telling me to renew bahuma.org immediately or I will be deleted. I did a whois and my registration is good until 2007.

Anyways, ttfn