I think I’ve used a play on the Wizard of Oz before but I like it and it’s suitable. Four years ago I lost dataplextechnology.com to some cyber squatters when I didn’t have enough money to renew all of my domains. Last night I remembered just in the knick of time that dataplextechnology.net was about to expire so I ran to Gandi to renew. After a bank error scare and a panic letter to the customer support email, I got the domain registered just before midnight. Horray!
Next time I won’t let it lapse. I had a misconception that if I ordered before the day it expired I would lose a few days off my registration (overlap). This isn’t the case as Gandi appends the bought time to the end of the expiration date. If you don’t have a good registrar, Gandi has been wonderful over the past 8 years and I would recommend them to anyone.
But on to the even better news. I got dataplextechnology.com back! This all falls in line perfectly with my business plan as I’m about to file for my LLC for my side work as a web/network consultant. Once that is done it’s time to start a professional website… this is harder than it seems. There is something rewarding about finishing a website for someone else, but working on your own website is a bit like mowing your grass – you have to do it but you don’t usually like it.
So someone hold me to it – I would appreciate someone yelling at me once in a while to put something meaningful up at http://www.dataplextechnology.com. Thanks!