Cool! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com> To: "AGA Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:57 PM Subject: [AGA-sc] A Strange Web Story > 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 > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc