What makes you happy ?

Too many domains and not the one I want. So I try emailing the people who do have the domain I want and get no reply. I note they removed their contact info from the ad-laden page at the domain. So my hopes are low. I head off to Namecheap and rashly buy the .us version and then realise that a country which has every which way of finding out anything will not let me hide my identity using Whoisguard.
It’s not that I’m nuts about privacy because there are plenty enough clues in this blog to lead you to my front door, but I’m not having a call with a “Hey I’ve a problem with my blog…”. I could fake the telephone / address / name etc but that’s no solution really. So the .us domain will sit there for 12 months, go into redemption and then be freed. I’ll not use it.
I grabbed another domain though – have too many so buy yet another .. there’s no logic at all there – and that will be used for what Scuttle is currently used for. I keep trying to make changes to scuttle and it keeps breaking so the /s directory will go as I move things away. I did install gelato first but then adding a first entry blanked it and I needed to reinstall. Halfway through that I figured that was enough hassle and maybe something so young wasn’t for me right then. So I have WP installed instead. As I would.

So I have several domains for sale. 3 of which are the com/net/org for the name. 1 is suitable for porn (I think), the others…. they were for a project that I wanted to launch, I paid for the code and then that person promptly screwed me over by not delivering. Nice. It’s not even hard code. If the urge to do the project strikes again before I get an offer (IF I get an offer) I’ll see what I can do. All it consists of is inserting data into a db. That’s it. The getting out in some sort of order would be nice but that comes at the end. Well.. it’s not quite that easy but it’s not far off.
So the domains all redirect to shimmerstudio and I wait to see what happens. I reckon people will go to url’s they want as much as trawl any of the ‘domains for sale’ sites – maybe I should list them somewhere…