bnappy

I'm so excited to report that today I was able to purchase bnappy.com. When I originally started this blog it was to chronicle my efforts in regaining ownership of my first domain name.

I can say that after all of the research into who bought (read: stole) it from me in the first place that I did not harass the new owner. I did try call and offer my web development and hosting services in exchange for my domain back. When they did not respond I decided to try the wait and see approach.

The new owners made dreadloc haircare products and me being a long time dreadhead myself I was kinda interested in seeing what they would turn my bnappy.com into. For a while there was a coming soon image on the site, after that it was a generic image from their hosting company. But sometime early last year the site was just 404 (read: not found) and that's when I got my hopes up, only to find that it auto renewed in July.

On January 9th 2007(which is on the anniversary of my fraternity being founded) I checked and discovered that BNAPPY.COM is available, and I purchased it.

Bnappy
~b

Makana found a big Elmo doll at the store. Its gonns be real hard to get him to let go.

Makana had such a great time that he threw a fit when it was time to go. But he was happy to get a balloon for his tickets.

Apparently the current owner of my first domain name 'bnappy.com' has it on an automatic renew.  It was scheduled expire this past July and it ended up getting renewed for another year.  Shortly after the renew date the coming soon page went down and has been a broken link every since. 

 

I'm not sure what they plan to do with the domain but I'm on the brink of calling them and offering them 1 free year of hosting of their original domain on my server as well as reimbursing them for the remainder of their domain name fee.  I want to use it, it was mine and they are just squatting.

 

I'm open to any suggestions; feel free to post any you might have.