Following winning a free domain at Dotster last week, I went ahead and attempted to register a domain. To my surprise Dotster requested my credit card details as a way to prevent fraud.

Considering I went through a lot of irritation last year due to some fraudulent charges on my credit card, I was and still am reluctant to go ahead with the order. Sure a free domain is nice, but when websites demand details like this unnecessarily, it sets alarm bells ringing.

I’d rather spend $7 on a domain than go through all that again!

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• Get a free domain at Dotster

I received a mail from Dotster this morning saying: “New .COM, .NET, .ORG domains given away are good for one year registration only and are limited to one new domain name per account. Offer ends at 12 midnight, July 2, 2008 PDT and is not valid with existing domain names.”

They’re giving away 50 free domains every hour until 4pm PDT.

These kind of offers one is usually skeptical over, however, this afternoon I managed to ‘win’ a free domain.

If you haven’t already attempted to get a free domain, you can do so by going to Dotster.com.

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• Dotster want credit card details for free domain?

The last few weeks I’ve been buying a few websites as well as putting a few together.

One website I built was FitnessExercise.info. I had been trying to sell the domain but after getting low offers for it, I decided to take someone’s advice and developed it.

The site runs on Wordpress, a free theme and PLR articles, so it has cost nothing to build.

I also built a small site about Wolf spiders. Not sure why but I’m finding spiders quite interesting, therefore putting the site together was fun. Only thing I didn’t like is the pictures of spider bites!

I picked up a funny images website and also a site that provides random quotes.

I’m in the process of building another wordpress driven website. That one just needs content adding. I’m also looking at my domains to see which would be fun to develop.

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• Glorious Football blog

Digital Point’s forums are now back online and has been since around 5pm BST.

The owner of the forum, Shawn Hogan aka TheOwner, appears clueless for the downtime. He said on the forum: “Hope someone soon can throw a light on the main issue.”

One moderator suggested that there was a fire at a data center that could have been the cause for the downtime, whether or not that would cause a database error, who knows.

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• Digital Point forums still down
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