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[selvalee]

question, what does all this mean?

got it in an email,,,, from Go Daddy,,,

Dear SelvaLee Tucker,

This notification is generated automatically as a service to you because you subscribe to DomainAlert®.

We have noted that the following changes occurred between 09/18/2006 and 03/08/2007:

The domain name servers have been changed:
OLD: DNS.GALLERYWEBS.COM
DNS2.GALLERYWEBS.COM
NEW: PARK37.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK38.SECURESERVER.NET
for the following name(s):
SELVALEE.COM

The above change is also displayed in the "Domain Monitoring/Backordering" section of your Account Manager.

Log in to your account to view and manage these changes.

[TFP Admin]

That means that the owner of the domain, selvalee.com, has changed the domain name server from a host company called gallerywebs.com to a "parked" position at GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy.com is a domain name registrar (and a server host too), which is where that domain was registered. They allow their accounts to store domains on their servers when they aren't being used.

You received the notice because you are, apparently, one of the listed contacts. GoDaddy.com has contact information for each of the following.

• Registrant (the person who registered the domain)
• Administration (the person or company that can make changes to the account)
• Technical (the person or company that you would contact if you had problems accessing the site)
• Billing (the person or company that is responsible to GoDaddy.com for payment of the account)

These are not always the same person or company. The Billing or Administrative contact would have been the one who added your name as a contact, possibly in the registrant portion, if you're lucky.

If you know the person or company that initially registered the domain, or who controls it now, you should contact them to see about having it transferred to your complete control. It may involve a small fee to recover the costs of registering the domain to date. The domain name expires on April 1, 2007, but if you do not arrange to take control of the domain name before then, you may not get an opportunity to do so again. Many companies pounce on expired domains to turn them into revenue producing directories or worse and the fee for getting them in your control could skyrocket. That isn't the fault of the domain registrant, it is the tactics of many domain registries and people who think they can make an easy buck off a domain name that might be used as a search term. And, of course, if by chance you have enemies, someone could gain control of the domain to besmirch your good name.

[selvalee]

now, back in the 1990s, there was a law passed that was suppose to stop such things, people were doing things like buying names, like, say, Dupont.com,, and then, charging Dupont a lot of money to get it,,, so, that was suppose to be illegal and they were suppose to stop people from getting names to force people to pay them lots of money,,, and, using it to attack people, and worse, so, I guess my next question is, who would I contact to report such a person to the Feds?

[Jerry Thomas]

There is some kind of law on that I think. But I don't understand why the fella just does not go ahead and transfer the name to you. To do that you must "accept" it using your registrar. It is a fairly simple process.

[Jerry Thomas]

I have bought up several inspector related domain names. If you want to view them, send me an email or PM. I will make you a sweet deal and transfer one over to you.

[Jim McClain]

As far as I know, there is no such law. You only have recourse if someone uses a website with your legal name or trademark to harass or libel you. That hasn't happened.

I also have domain names using your name. When you and I were discussing me building a website for you, I registered 2 names, SelvaLeeInspections.com and SelvaLeeInspections.net. It never progressed beyond the discussion phase, but on several occasions, you said you were going to pay for the domain names. In fact, just recently I renewed them for another year because you said you wanted them even after they had expired. My registrar allowed me to pay the fees with no penalty even though they had been expired for several days (or a week or more - I don't remember).

My motive was not to make a profit on the domain names (although I would have liked being able to make a few bucks building you a website). I only asked that you pay the registration costs to date. I also told you you didn't have to pay for them at all, if you didn't care that they would expire. They would prob'ly be taken by my registrar or someone else looking to profit off some advertising placed on pages with your name in the domain (that is not illegal and many registrars do it routinely). In any case, I was not going to keep them because I don't think it's good to use domains like that. But you kept saying you were going to send me money for them (my cost is 36.80).

Tandy asked me to build a website for him a while back. It has taken some time, but it is coming together (the latest test page: Flooring Inspection Training Services, Inc. | Test 5 Template compared to his current site FLOORING INSPECTION TRAINING SERVICES, INC. / FLOORING INSTALLATION TRAINING SERVICES, INC.). I registered several domain names for him. The one he has decided on is FITScertified.org, but I also registered the .com and .net names, as well as some other names that use various forms of FITS - it's good practice and cheap insurance. And like Jerry, I have registered several good inspection type domains that don't relate to anyone's name or business. Those I will sell for a profit because they are marketable names -- InspectorFloors.com is catchy, don't you think?

So, I think you should contact the people who hold the registration for the domain names you are most concerned about. Don't assume it will be a problem. I really don't think they want to be difficult about it, even if you think they were before. People change. Maybe these have. Maybe not, but give it a try before you take any other action (which you don't have any real reason to do). They are registered through GoDaddy.com. They charge about 9.20 per year for a domain name with all fees included. Maybe that's all they want. That's all I would like for the 2 names I still hold for you, but you can let them expire and pay me nothing too, if that's what you want.

Jim

[Tandy Reeves]

Check out my web pages. They are looking good. They are getting the message out.

[Jim McClain]

It's even better tonight. We have a temporary main page: The New FITS Certified | Flooring Inspection Training Services, Inc.

Jim

[Jerry Thomas]

Very good Tandy and Jim

[Nick Arrera]

Don't you love it when a plan comes together ?
Looks good guys ..

[cproader]

Did you guys design that to fill up the whole page on a wide screen? Cause I did mine that way and everybody is telling me to design it so it looks right on a standard screen. But it looks good on my wide screen. Are you guys on the standard screen having to scroll to see the whole page?

[Nick Arrera]

I have a 19 " wide screen and all sites i go on look fine ..

[Jim McClain]

I have to take the blame for the design and the coding. I design "fluid" sites that will fit a variety of monitor resolutions. Scrolling up and down to read the content of a page is not unusual. If the amount of content, including pictures, graphics and text, is more than the viewport height of your browser, then you will have to scroll down and up to see all of it. You should not have to scroll left and right to see websites and the FITScertified.org site will fit in a viewport as narrow as 740px without scrolling left or right.

The majority of Internet users today use screen resolutions of 1024x768. If you open your browser full screen and use no add-on toolbars, that index page will require no scrolling even up and down to read at 1024x768. But that page may end up with more content when the site is finished. There will be many pages later on, including lists of inspectors and installers in each state (each state will have a separate page), scheduled training on several dates throughout the year and articles written by Tandy and others that will no doubt make it necessary to scroll up and down to read.

I design for a 1024x768 screen resolution, but also make sure the headers and other design elements fit on screen resolutions down to 800x600 or smaller. That is called fluid design. The alternative is a fixed width design, which is usually between 740 and 800px wide, but on larger screens, that would leave a lot of wasted space. On those pages that had a lot more content than this temporary main page, you would have to scroll a lot more to read it than a fluid width design. On a side note, this design also works at wider widths up to 1600px.

Jim

[Floorguy]

Works fine for me, and I'm on a 15" monitor.

[cproader]

So Jim, is there something I can do to my site to make it fluid or do I have to start over and design it with different tools.