Enter my domain

i launched a new website at the start of January, it's called Retro Tat and is pretty much just me playing console remakes like Outrun 2 or classics collections like Midway Arcade Treasures, looking at assorted LCD-based toys and having fun with NES and Megadrive hardware clones; i mention it now because it seems i forgot when the site actually went live and the next bit at least requires knowledge of it...

Y'see, when i was putting the thing together, i decided that rather than splash out on a .com or even .co.uk address, since it was going to just be a personal indulgence i'd get the cheapest domain going; so i grabbed a .info and paid the princely sum of £1.14 for it - bargain. At the same time i was registering the domain i looked at the alternatives and the .com was unavailable, it was in redemption and had been for over a month so i decided that "if that ever comes free, i'll get it" but thought no more of it at the time. About two weeks after the new site went up, it did come free and the first i knew about it was getting an email from one of those firms that picks up domains and tries to sell them on for a profit... three emails arrived in total, each asking $99 for the .com and saying about how much better it was. Since i'm a little less than rich at the best of times i duly ignored it and the two reminders that followed.

Probably for the best really because a week later a second company was in touch, this time offering to do exactly the same as the first but for half the price - wow, now i'm impressed, $49 to get a domain makes the $1 or thereabouts i paid look so huge doesn't it? Well, i had to be held back otherwise i'd have bitten their arms off (nothing to do with the domain, i'm prone to acts of random and surreal violence) and promptly ignored the reminder from that company too; i remember saying that, if things carried on the way they were going, they'd be offering me a tenner to take it away sooner or later... instead the domain has been detagged so now it costs the same as any other .com to register!

There isn't much point though, at the moment i've managed to get to the top of Google for the search term retro tat on the current domain and i'm more than happy with that; .com domains are fun to have, but for a site i fell into doing by accident and am just doing for the fun of it, the money for a flash domain could be paying for a supply of coffee to fuel writing. Speaking of which...