Today Jeremyj.com is officially replacing jeremyjefferson.com as my site’s URL.

Jeremyjefferson.com however will remain fully functional and will redirect to jeremyj.com.  In fact, you will notice many links (especially for the page design) still refer to jeremyjefferson.com.

I don’t believe this should cause any issues, however please leave me a comment if you notice any part of my site acting weird, or not working at all because of this change.

If you read my earlier post you will see that I obtained jeremyj.com through a backorder from Godaddy.com. Here is my experience with Godaddy and their backordering service for all of you who may be considering using them.

Since I really wanted jeremyj.com I placed a backorder with Godaddy.  Even though this costs about $10 more than the registration costs ($18.99).  This pretty much assured me that I would be able to beat any other human trying manually for the domain when it dropped.  Of course, Godaddy is not very good at beating bots from backordering services like Pool or SnapNames.

I placed my backorder three to four days prior to the domain dropping.  It was already in “pending delete” status.  I probably should not have waited this long though because if someone else had placed a backorder on it with Godaddy before me I would not have been able to because Godaddy only permits one backorder per domain from all their customers.

Well, on drop day Godaddy changed the status of the backorder to “Capture in progress”.  It stayed in this status for about 8 hours.

Dot-Com domains start dropping around 2PM ET and continue to drop until around 4PM-5PM ET.  Mine dropped right around 3PM.

At right around 3PM I refreshed the whois database and the domain had still not dropped.  I refreshed about 20 seconds after that and the domain had dropped and it the new registrar was Godaddy.  This made me very happy because this meant Godaddy was in possession of the domain and most likely it was mine.

It took about another hour and a half to get confirmation, which came in the form of Godaddy putting my contact info in the whois database, proving to me and the world that the domain was now mine!

Overall I was very pleased with Godaddy’s backorder service.  Of course, had I lost I probably would not have been.  Jeremyj.com in my opinion is a good domain that I figured would be tasted or grabbed by someone else with a backorder.  Since I know Godaddy obtained it within 20 seconds after it dropped their bots are fast at getting them.  Most likely Godaddy got it within a couple seconds.

I do recommend now anyone who has $18.99 to risk on a domain they want to try Godaddy.  Their backorders do work (as they did for me) and its the cheapest backordering service I can find.

Anyone who has any questions about Godaddy’s backordering service or wants clarification on my experience can just post a comment.  I will respond very quickly to any questions you may have.  Just make sure to leave your valid email address so I can inform you of my response.

I have successfully obtained the domain jeremyj.com. 

Yep, that’s right. I am very excited as I’ve been trying/wanting to get this domain for three years now. Basically when I first bought a domain for my personal site (this site here) I wanted something to do with my name and be short. Jeremy.com was already taken obviously, so I tried jeremyj.com. Unfortunatly this was also taken. Eventually I just ended up with jeremyjefferson.com.

Jeremyjefferson.com is a fine domain for me (I think everyone should try to get their full name in a dot-com), but it is way to long for people to type out or even remember.

Ever since that day I have wanted jeremyj.com and wanted it bad. I hope the old owner of this domain reads this some day, but I sent 3-5 emails to the former owner from 2006-2007 trying to get a hold of the guy who owned it. Basically I said I was interested in purchasing the domain from him and asked his price. I was going to accept anything $200 or less on the spot. Sad thing is, after 2007 the guy didn’t even use the domain and had no site on it. He never responded to any of the emails, so I gave up.

Well, last year during September (2007) I was all excited. Jeremyj.com was about to expire! Unfortunately the dude renewed it and the domain stayed alive until September of this year (2008). I didn’t stop watching the domain however….

Well, September 2008 rolled around again and the domain was ready to expire if he didn’t renew. This time he did not renew. The domain eventually went to auction which I did not bid in (lack of funds at the time). Fortunately no one placed a bid on it.

Now, almost 80 days after the domain expired I successfully obtained it with a Godaddy backorder for $18.99 ($17.01 after coupons). I will be posting an entry here later on my experience with Godaddy backorders. Luckily for Godaddy this will be a very good review.

So now I have this to decide: Should I leave jeremyjefferson.com as the domain for this site, having jeremyj.com forward to it? Should I have jeremyj.com take over as the domain for this site and have jeremyjefferson.com forward to it. Or should I allow both of them to work without forwards?

Personally I’m probably going to go with keeping jeremyjefferson.com as the main or have jeremyj.com become the main and forward the other one to it.

If anyone has suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

Yep today is my birthday! I turned 22 today.

Also, 3 days ago on the 5th of October was the birthday for my website also. My site turned 3 years old on the 5th. I actually had a personal website prior to October 5th, 2005, but it didn’t have the jeremyjefferson.com until that date.

As some of you know, I am a Chicago Cubs fan.  Here once again in the playoffs the Cubs are probably preparing to be swept out of the NLDS again.  If the Cubs lose tonight it will be 9 straight post season loses since 2003 when the Marlins came back on us after being down 3-1 in the NLCS.

I can’t begin to express my disappointment, heartbreak, and overall sadness.  Odds are at this time tomorrow the Cubs 2008 year will be complete, and they will go down in the most humiliating fashion ever once again, getting swept out of the playoffs.

This also means that the Cubs era of no championships will extend into a second century.  How much longer can I take this?  I really am not sure.

I’d also like to take the time to recommend any Cubs fans who find this post on Google or some other search engine to look into Cubscast.  Cubscast is a podcast with 2-3 episodes a week.  It is done by 3 die hard Cubs fans who give really good insight into the Chicago Cubs.  You can find a link to Cubscast on my sidebar to the left, or by Clicking Here.