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Sep 18, 2002, 10:14am

I suppose now would be a good time to give everyone a heads up as to our
situation with AWNews.com

As some of you may know, we've been in the process of transferring all
AWNews property from Cybor, the former owner, to myself. The website
hosting has been secured, but the awnews.com domain name is another
matter entirely.

The story goes like this: It didn't seem as if there was any
straightforward way to transfer the domain from one owner to another.
So, Cybor decided to just let the domain run out and I would have to
pick it up when it went on the public market. Unfortunately, I couldn't
get a straight answer out of register.com, the domain's registrar, as to
when the domain would go public. Still, since all the other "awnews"
domains (awnews.net, awnews.org, etc) have been available for months, I
figured no one would go for awnews.com, so I didn't watch it very
closely. Boy, was that a mistake.

On Sept. 8th, soon after the domain went public, some domain-grubbing
outfit called MostWantedDomains.com snatched it up and posted it as
being "up for sale". When I asked them how much they wanted for it, they
told me $1,250. I essentially told them to stuff it, since I would've
only had to pay $35 for it had I picked it up in time, and that they'll
never find another buyer for that domain.

Which brings us to now. Since I doubt MWD.com is going to be generous
enough to simply drop the domain, we're in the process of trying to
decide on a new domain name for AWNews. Possible suggestions include
domains like aw-news.com and awnews.org. If any of you has a suggestion
you think would be a) easy to remember, and b) has something to do with
"AWNews", feel free to post it here and we'll consider it.

Thanks for your help, and we're sorry for any disruption/inconvenience
all of this may have caused you. :-/

--
Goober King
AWNews.? Editor in Chief
robrod at prism.net

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