I now own freefrommoney.com
When I began this site I thought of the name free from money, which I thought was appropriate. The dot com version of that name was already in use by someone who was parking ads, so I had to settle for the dot net version instead.
Imagine my surprise when I received an email in my inbox last week offering to let me ‘bid’ on this domain name. I did a quick search on Google for Pat Kennedy and Leader By Choice and found a website claiming the offer is a scam (surprise surprise). So I did nothing, since it wasn’t that important to me to have the dot com domain anyways.
I receive multiple emails over the next few days, but I waited. Apparently there is a 5 day return period on domain names. This is so that you can ‘return’ the domain if you realize you made a spelling error or something similar. So there is no risk for a company to buy a name on the cheap, and then turn around and try to sell the name to you for a profit. If you don’t take the bait they simply return the name.
So 6 days after I received the first email I checked to see if freefrommoney.com was available, and sure enough it was. So I went ahead and ordered the domain through dream hosts, which worked out even better because I still had a free domain name that came with the hosting service.
Now I need to decide whether I should change the name of the site to FreeFromMoney.com, or keep the site as FreeFromMoney.net. In either case I will have the secondary domain forward to the main page. The question is which one to keep. Any thoughts on which is better? Does one domain sound more appropriate than the other? Please leave a comment and let me know!
