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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Orcmid's Live Hideout Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items NewsGator: Deja Vu All Over Again Happy Birthday, CACM! Re: Video Schmideo OLPC: Bring on the How-Tos I will Facebook no more Forever The Seven Deadly Signs of Blogstipation Publiversity: Public and Alternative Higher Educat... IIW 2007b: Internet Identity Roundup One Laptop Per Child: Labor Pains WHS Fascination and the Social Grid: Distributed P...	2008-02-06 Who Wants ODMA.com Anyhow? Technorati Tags: ODMA.com, ODMA.info, ODMA.net, ODMA.org, Open Document Management API, Internet domains, domain auctions Because I am the happy tenant of domain ODMA.info, I received notice today that ODMA.com is becoming available and that an auction is set up for it. Curious about that, I learned that a minimum bid is $69 and that the current high bid is $230 as of 9 am (2008-02-06T09:00 -0800). Since it is difficult to tell how honest this system is, I used UWhois.com to find out that Network Solutions is sitting on ODMA.com at the moment, with indication that the domain is pending renewal or deletion. Using Aboutus.org, I learned that the current/previous tenant is apparently ODMA.com = Optical Disk Manufacturing Association, but there is apparently no active web site That ODMA might want to check to find out whether they let their lease run out on purpose before the February 6 auction close. Being curious about the situation, I also discovered that ODMA.org = Ohio Dermatalogical Managers Association, with an appealing site that is even more out of date than ODMA.info ODMA.net = the holdings of a person/organization in Germany but there is no functioning site So the question is, do I want to bid in a valiant effort to slowly scoop up the ODMA domains? Why would I want to do that? Will my participation just jack up the bidding? I have no idea. Background: I have been slowly transferring domain names that I rent away from Network Solutions to another registrar that offers very nice flat rates ($12.95 per year except for orcmid.tv which costs me a bundle). I still have some domains with Network Solutions that are pre-paid until 2011. ODMA.info is one of them. At the time I was looking for an ODMA domain, the ordinary .com, .org, and .net ones were not available. posted by orcmid at 2/06/2008 01:04:00 PM *Comments:* So what's wrong with a .info domain? I kind of like it, especially for a site that, um, has information on it. # posted by Bill Anderson: 07 February, 2008 10:31 Oddly enough, there is something disreputable about .info domains in some circles. It doesn't bother me, but apparently there is some sort of spam-site association. I don't particulary lust after ODMA.com, it being more of a nice-to-have and maybe, as you suggest, not even that. # posted by orcmid: 07 February, 2008 13:57 Seems like if it is a nice to have, pick a ceiling for yourself and start bidding :) # posted by Anonymous: 07 February, 2008 18:11 Post a Comment

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