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While using this blog as a playground to develop my WordPress skills, it has gotten to the stage where I have lost the plot. Out have gone any none WP or internet related posts, and I will try and start again. I have managed to set up my reseller site over at www.mahita.net, and I will try and use that to help people setting up blogs. Very soon I will detail how I set up the blog for Mahita, obviously I used WordPress with some heavy hacking. Check back for my mini tutorial.

by John.Karakatsanis

I guess I must have owned about 10 domains at some stage in my life; .co.nz .net .com all for either business or pleasure. Currently I have two, maybe three -clarification later- domains. This article is about people who buy domains with the sole purpose of profiting from them by selling them to owners of similar domains, or by taking advantage of a technical error to renew someone else’s domain, then sell it back to them. Both of these ‘practises’ have happened to me.

I used to have a lovely domain name, mahita.net, it is based on the Maori word for sage, teacher. While I was running this domain for my teaching business, I moved flats. At the same time, I moved my cable service with me, and here began the problems. For a domain you have to provide an email address which is NOT the same as the domain, and NOT one of the many free services; hotmail, yahoo, etc. (more…)