Cybersquatting Annoyance

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I’m getting ready to launch a new open source project, and, as everyone knows, you can’t do that without a cool sounding name. :P

I’ve picked out about six cool sounding names, and I’ve been looking them up on GoDaddy to see if I could go ahead a register the domain name. And wouldn’t you know, all of them are already taken. Now, this wouldn’t irritate me so much if there was actual content on the sites. But every single one I looked up is squatted by link farms. I am literally 0-6 right now.

Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken. well, you can stil get one from a strange country :-P - [bash.org](http://www.bash.org/?369)

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Hi, I'm Rob! I'm a blogger and software developer. I wrote petfeedd, dystill, and various other projects and libraries. I'm into electronics, general hackery, and model trains and airplanes. I am based in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

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