Found myself randomly telling this story on Twitter just now and then realized that it probably would’ve been better off as a blog post instead! 😕
Even though Just Laugh is but an archive site today, it still makes me sad to visit http://t.co/uavrE7yIxw and see nothing but squatter ads.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
For those who don't know the history, we actually started on http://t.co/uavrE7yIxw in 1999 because someone else owned the .com.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
I actually talked to the guy who owned it, but he wanted "thousands" of dollars for it because "he already had logos and stuff" designed.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
I think about 2? years later, he accidentally let it lapse and I scooped it up for $7.99 on GoDaddy – that was a very exciting day!
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
Until 2003, http://t.co/uavrE7yIxw sat over the .com (i.e. http://t.co/XN9kWbFTF5 and http://t.co/Mf2uwKx4BF were the same)…
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
…until I moved to Florida that fall and forgot to renew .net because stupid fucking Network Solutions didn't remind me about it.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
I think I realized what had happened a month or two later, and by then it had already been scheduled for deletion.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
They couldn't help me and told me I just needed to register it again when it went back up for sale, but some squatter beat me to it.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
Since then it's floated through half a dozen different companies – several international companies for a while, and now behind private reg.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
For a while I thought about trying to file a complaint, but just to file with ICANN is $1,000 and there's no guarantee it'll even work.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
I'd still love to get it back eventually, even if only for nostalgia's sake – I even have a poster on my wall… (http://t.co/Av9tpTZQH3)
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
But who knows – I've had Backorder Monitoring through GoDaddy on it for years, but they always renew it now at the last minute.
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
And so that's my story about why you should never, ever, ever use Network Solutions for domain registration! Someday…
— Scott Sevener (@ssevener) January 30, 2014
Speaking of Just Laugh memories, somewhere I should also still have the clips of when Just Laugh was featured on TechTV after we nominated Martin Sargent for a Weenie Award! That was awesome … one of these days I’ll have to find that thing and figure out a way to convert it into a format a little more suitable for this decade…