Well. That was an odd and rather upsetting email to receive: someone I have never heard of who happened to have as their email name (the first part of a yahoo.com email name) the same combo of words that I used a couple of months ago to register as a domain name (for a site not currently for public consumption) sent me an alternately wheedling and snippy missive complaining about the fact that I had done so before this person thought of it.
Strange. Back when I was trying to think of a domain name for my bit of internet real estate, I naturally searched first for my own name. At the time I found that most combinations of "Andrea Harris" that I wanted were already taken. It never occurred to me to send these people an email berating them for registering the "andreaharris" combo before I was able to. In any case, I sent a reply to this person. I was polite, I think, but I also made it clear that I was not about to "give" my domain name to this person because they had an email address using the same word combination, and because, apparently, they felt that I had registered the domain as some sort of personal attack on them.
PS: It seems that now most combos of my name are free, except for .com. Anyway, this isn't me -- my painting style is somewhat different. And I'm not her either.
Posted by Andrea Harris at September 21, 2003 11:06 PMThe only complaint I ever had about the guy who got mcgehee.com before me, is that after all these years the site still only has (last time I looked) a Microsoft IIS placeholder page instead of any, you know, content.
Then again, for all I know it's not for public consumption either, so...
Anyway, McGeheeZone.com seems to be working just fine for me.
Posted by: McGehee at September 22, 2003 at 08:41 PM