I didn’t get the impression Huge Domains operated in any kind of way that can be deemed professional. They were rude and condescending as soon as they picked up the phone. Their prices are ridiculously sky high.

You have to question the moral integrity of anyone who supports Huge Domains.

Some quick up to date details regarding the cost of domain names on the registrar level:

ICANN fees are $0.18 per domain name under management per year per domain and Verisign currently charges $7.34 per domain name year. Prices for .COMs to go up in January to $7.86.

Being first has its benefits. I winder how you feel about the business men who purchased huge tracts of land in the downtown core of your city years and years ago. All they di was get there first right? Now they want 1000s of times their initial purchase price. Same deal.

I only hope ICANN pops the fee up to $7 and squeezes these worms out of business” Huh? Names cost more than that already and when guys are making markups in the 100 and 1000x I dint think $7 is much of a disuading factor.

“I suspect if we wait a year Huge Domains will be out of business”
Columbo you are not but if you are a gambling man I’d love to wager on this with you and GIVE YOU ODDs, big odds.

“Or wait, and they will die” Andrew, don’t hold your breath otherwise YOU will die

I only hope ICANN pops the fee up to $7 and squeezes these worms out of business so they can go into something where they contribute value. That’s the primary value of the fee, which should if anything be smaller. All you’re buying is a line in a database somewhere and administrative overhead. (Again, fees charged without added value.)

I came here with the conviction that I would not negotiate with these people, even for the rights to my own name (or in this case a friend’s). I’m twice as convinced now. There are too many ways to alter a domain name slightly and avoid them altogether. Anyway, I suspect if we wait a year Huge Domains will be out of business, its proprietor moving on to penile enhancement creams or whatever. And a salesman who can’t keep his manners is not good at what he does and won’t last if the market is even halfway healthy.

Please please don’t buy from these people if you possibly can. Consider legal action if you have a trademark claim. Or wait, and they will die. That’s how I picked up my own name; I waited a year and the crass entrepreneur who had it folded. From $500 to $10 overnight, plus the satisfying distant noise of their sorry enterprise deflating.

I recently made a purchase from Huge Domains as well and dealt with Christian Bosse.

The asking price for the domain was $1,395 and after reading your post I decided to contact Huge Domains to negotiate a price that I was willing to pay. I used their contact form on their website and asked if they were willing to negotiate. During this initial contact I offered 300.00.

I immediately received an email from Chritian saying that they could not accept 300.00, but that they could put it up for a two week open auction with the starting bid at 600.00, or that I should make my best offer and they would consider selling the domain outright.

The most I wanted to pay for this domain was 500.00. So, I offered 500 outright and Christian replied that he would put it up for a two week open auction at a starting bid of 500.00 and if there wasn’t much interest he would try his best to end the auction early for me.

I agreed and bid 500.00, exactly one week later Christian ended the auction (one week early) and I now own the domain I wanted for a price I was willing to pay.

All interactions with Christian were professional and painless.

Although, I think the domain name reselling business is quite shady and that it really sucks there is no regulations for reselling domains, it must definitely be a profitable business model.

Oh well, if people are willing to pay there will always be business.

Thanks again.

In all cases, I try to be as professional as possible. I have spent 15 years in sales and marketing, and believe that the whole reason for business is to take care of customers. That being said, professionalism is a two-way street. Customers deserve the best service and courtesy as possible. You (customers) are critical to the success and health of our business, and we appreciate each and every opportunity to create a win-win outcome. Unfortunately, as you can imagine, there are times when our team has to deal with some very adversarial folks who just don’t see the value in a good, premium dot com domain. I wish I could be all things to all people, but who can? Anyhow, anyone is free to call me anytime and I’ll take good care of you!

The domain will be dropped after 5 days in the pending delete status. The other status, redemption period and registrar hold, may be skipped with the consient of the owner. Some times people just want to get rid of unwanted domains so they call up the registrar and say delete it please. In that case it could jump straight to pending delete.

Scott–

It didn’t sell at auction (no one bid on it). Then it’s been in “pending_account” status since Feb. Now, it’s in “pendingdelete” status again.

Snapnames has the domain listed as “available soon” (ie the date it is supposed to drop – today, actually). Their min bid is $79. I honestly don’t think anyone else wants it, so I’m really hesitating to put in a bid.

Presuming no one bids on it (which is quite likely), when will it be available? Would that be 3 days from the date it shows as it will be available? ie – it shows as being available on April 19, so if no one bids it’s back in the pool on April 22?

The bidding part about the names going to auction I understand. What I can’t seem to find out is what happens if no one backordered it, and no one bids on it? Does it then go back into the pool? Or is there yet another part of the process before I can get this domain?

Not sure if you know the answer, but any info you have would be helpful.

Thanks!

Cathy
P.S. Sorry this was such a long comment!

Scott–

I do intend to add support for git repositories in the future. I’m not exactly sure how it will work because when git merge occures it may insert previous commits into the history without effecting the last one. I’ll figure something out with regards to that. From the configuration file you can see the hint at other repository types because it does include the type="svn" attribute.

It will probably be several months before I even start working on git support.

-BW

What I mean by “use the Grails version of these libraries?” is to exclude the conflicting libraries from dependencies.

First, what you need to do is find the pom file for the dependency you’re using and look at it’s dependency. Chances are the dependency it’s probably listed mvnrepository.com. You can search for it there then navigate to the pom file.

Second, examine the pom file for any suspicious dependency. Like I pointed out in the post most commonly there are XML libraries like xerces or xalan. If you have an error message that might also help you track down the offending dependency.

Third, once you’ve identified an offending dependency then you’ll want to exclude it from your application. There are two methods if you’re using the grails-based BuildConfig.groovy then you can do something like:

compile ('net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.4') {
excludes 'xercesImpl','xmlParserAPIs'
}

Or if your project is maven-based then you’ll do something like:

<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.htmlunit</groupId>
<artifactId>htmlunit</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
<artifactId>xmlParserAPIs</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>

Hope this helps,
Scott–

Yes. To the best of my knowledge if the current registrar is GoDaddy then you have to go through them if you want to be sure to be involved in the auction. On the positive side, GoDaddy has the cheapest minimum bid price.

Good Luck (and you’ll need it to navigate GoDaddy’s site)

Scott–

Your comment is rather startling. Are you suggesting that we should all buy domain names at exaggerated prices from resellers as some sort of “test” of business worthiness? I am sure that if the reseller could have sold the domain to someone else at a higher price they would have. No one twisted their arm in this transaction.

I will turn your comment around and say: Any business which over pays for goods or services should NOT be in business. Period.

Scott–

That’s the problem, without any additional information you can’t really know. The best advice I can give is to first check the domain’s current registrar to see if they have an exclusive partner for aftermarket sales, if they do then just place an order/bid with that service. However, most registrar’s don’t publish this information. In this case you’re best bet is to just use them all.

Scott–

Of course, even a total newb like you knew .com is the best.
‘course you could have got the .net for $9 – but didn;t.

Champagne tastes, beer money budget

I didnt have the presence of mind to see how big they were before I deleted them. But it does look like Apple keeps alot of data in them.

Scott–

Thanks for that. I’d been noticing mine getting slower – but only down to about 2 seconds, not the 20 you had to wait. But now its instant!

Thanks!

Stuart

btw – there are doughnuts in the break room!

Note that you can’t see the .project file in the actual Eclipse IDE and have to go to the file system to find it. After I made this adjustment, I was able to reload the project and find “Tomcat” under “Project -> properites” Thanks to Scott for pointing out this solution.

I found these situations in django books, but they have one custom made app and other one is built-in app. the apps are integrated in special way.

can u help to solve my problem with 2 custom app.

I would advise you to do something similar for Django projects instead of always creating a new one when you want to do a new Django deployment. Although Django projects require configuration (settings.py, database connections, urls, installed apps, etc.) you can at least manage dependencies, pre-populate INSTALLED_APPS and urls.py as much as possible for required applications and have any required configurations in settings.py. You probably are not going to install your Django project via something like easy_install, but a uniform configuration will help you in the long run. This way you don’t have to go through the documentation of the 10 applications your project uses every time you want to deploy that project.

If you need a very highly reproducible deployment architecture, I’d even package up my already packaged modules into a platform specific installer like msi, rpm or deb or something like Fabric.