derekbrooks.com is mine! posted
I've been trying to get www.derekbrooks.com since I was in college. It's belonged to a canadian by the name of... wait for it - Derek Brooks since like 2001. I remember e-mailing a few times trying to get him to give it to me... but obviously that didn't work out.
At first derekbrooks.com was basically a resume for my like-named friend, then it became a wedding info site for family - and then - he apparently let it die. Maybe he took his wife's surname, ha.
So randomly last night, I was seeing how I did in search engine results by searching for broox, derek brooks, etc. I found some new broox sites, like kite aerial photography at brooxes.com and a sweet skateboard company at broox.it. So I then hopped over to joker.com to see all the registered broox.* domains, then I checked derekbrooks.* and, wtf! Did I spell my name wrong? It's available???
I seriously checked the spelling on my name like 38 times - I swore that I typed it wrong, but nope. It was there, in all its glory.
I really have been trying to get this domain since 2001. So I checked the whois information to find out wtf was up and found the site had just expired. I then googled derekbrooks.com and it came up on tons of lists for "good domains to buy." I'm lucky a spam/ad site didn't grab it.
So, I quick called Wells Fargo Fraud Protection (for some annoying reason they block all of my transactions to Joker) to tell them to open my card up for a European transaction and snatched up www.derekbrooks.com. Weee!
So... I don't really know what to do with it yet. Currently it's just aliasing www.broox.com... but dammit, I finally own my name dot com!
At first derekbrooks.com was basically a resume for my like-named friend, then it became a wedding info site for family - and then - he apparently let it die. Maybe he took his wife's surname, ha.
So randomly last night, I was seeing how I did in search engine results by searching for broox, derek brooks, etc. I found some new broox sites, like kite aerial photography at brooxes.com and a sweet skateboard company at broox.it. So I then hopped over to joker.com to see all the registered broox.* domains, then I checked derekbrooks.* and, wtf! Did I spell my name wrong? It's available???
I seriously checked the spelling on my name like 38 times - I swore that I typed it wrong, but nope. It was there, in all its glory.
I really have been trying to get this domain since 2001. So I checked the whois information to find out wtf was up and found the site had just expired. I then googled derekbrooks.com and it came up on tons of lists for "good domains to buy." I'm lucky a spam/ad site didn't grab it.
So, I quick called Wells Fargo Fraud Protection (for some annoying reason they block all of my transactions to Joker) to tell them to open my card up for a European transaction and snatched up www.derekbrooks.com. Weee!
So... I don't really know what to do with it yet. Currently it's just aliasing www.broox.com... but dammit, I finally own my name dot com!
comments
yes!!! thats awesome.
zach posted
That's stellar. I recently read an article online that parents of infant children are buying their kids domain names before they can even feed themselves so that they are reserved for their adult life. Crazy.
tia posted
totally radicalness
not dexer brooxs posted
So...it got me thinking...
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benjaminstockwell.com/
Apprently, I play indie rock.
ben posted
I like to call it country-folk-alt-indie-pop.
benjamin stockwell posted
Sergeant Stockwell's Wicked Underground Country Music Fest
derek posted
Nice. Now I've made a public spelling error in front of the only other Ben Stockwell I know.
I promise I know how to spell "apparently."
Looks like we have nothing else in common though...bummer. Next time I'm in the Twin Cities, I gotta look that guy up!
ben posted
totally dudical!
neither dexter briks posted
Damn...I looked up www.ericlarson.com hoping it would be something awesome...it's gay porn...just kidding.
Rico posted