Re: [AGA-sc] A Strange Web Story

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

That'd be cool.  It costs us 12 euro per year for the domain.  We could 
certainly add another twelve bucks a year to handle it...

   - Erik

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Cheryl Rogers wrote:

> Story time!
>
> I was double-checking the TFH ads for the potential sponsors
> spreadsheet, when I noticed that the AGA's web site address was wrong in
> the Web Directory portion of the magazine. Of course, our ad is correct,
> but their directory listed www.aquaticgardeners.com. Well you can bet I
> e-mailed the guy (and his boss) regarding the error, but in total there
> will be three incorrect issues. :-(
>
> Next I looked up www.aquaticgardeners.com and there's just a registry
> placeholder page. No site. Curiouser and curiouser.
>
> So I did a WhoIs, and turns out the owner of that domain name is Don
> Matakis. Hey! I know that name! He's an AGA member. He also owns
> freshwateraquariumplants.com and Aquaticscapes.com.
>
> So I e-mailed him asking for help, and he responded that he got the
> domain name on the AGA's behalf mostly so that no one else could use it.
> He will be happy to post a link to the official AGA web site and when
> the TFH ad has run its course, he will gift the domain name to us.
>
> Nice, huh?
>
> Cheryl
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