Marshall - 5:17 am on Jun 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

"The only lesson in this is, don't let your important domain names expire ;)"

Letting it expire was unintentional. Circumstances beyond my control prevented me from renewing it, but that's not the issue.

It is one thing having a domain for future development, but it's another to hold it from being used by someone who wants to develop it.

As I also mentioned, the domain name with "theatre" in it showed up as the first result in a Google search, but the content had nothing to do with theater, or theatre if you prefer. So, not only does that say little for search engine algorithms, but it is a disservice to people who are doing a genuine search and who create web sites with pertinent content.

So I guess it’s a combination of two rants: people who hold domains without the intention of developing them and search engines who tout their accuracy and make web builders jump through hoops just to get ranked and, in the mean time, place a useless site as the first result.

Marshall

Post Script: I re-launched this site at the beginning of June and they wanted on $65US for the domain. I thought then it was too much. Obviously, they are aware of the fact I re-launched the site: $65US to $1,000US in three weeks!? They can sit on it for the rest of their lives.

[edited by: Marshall at 5:20 am (utc) on June 26, 2007]