Wow, has it really been so long since I last posted? About 4 months, wow. That’s too long, time to get back into things.
I was poking around on the Internet today, as I often am, and to my shock discovered that the domain riekeberg.com is registered, which is kind of sad considering there are only a handful of people with that last name in the world, and nearly every result from Google is me. Not only has a squatter from South Korea taken riekeberg.com, but they have also taken riekeberg.org, riekeberg.net, riekeberg.info, and riekeberg.biz. Not only that, riekeberg.com was registered back in 2004. As much as I despise them, I can understand domain squatting to a point I guess, but this one really leaves me scratching my head. It’s not like they’re going to get much (if any) advertising money from it, and with the few Riekebergs there are in the world, much less on the Internet, and the ridiculously high asking price of 9,900 euros ($13,455), it’s not like anyone is going to buy it. I might have registered it just to have it, if only for an e-mail address, but it’s really not that important to me, I sure wouldn’t buy it even if it was (relatively) cheap. At one point I did let my domain lapse inadvertently and a squatter picked it up, but it was released not long after. I assume it wasn’t worth it. I just can’t wrap my brain around why a squatter would want riekeberg.com, which should probably have even less value.
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