Word to the wise: never let a domain name expire. We realized that coil-inc.com was expired, but instead of forking over the $35 bucks to Network Solutions to renew it, I figured I'd save a buck and transfer it to a cheaper registrar. Little did I know that you can't do that. This is after I had paid for the transfer.
So, I waited for the domain to be released from NetSol. And waited. And waited. Months later it finally was released, but before my new registrar could get it (they are based in Asia, you get what you pay for!) another registrar snapped it up. Not wanting to pay whatever they want to get the domain back, we've registered coilgames.com instead.
Some people were confused by the old domain, thinking that because we had "-inc" attached that we were in fact incorporated. That's in the plans, but we aren't yet. Coilgames.com is decent enough. The ironic thing is that the person who owns coil.com lives right here in central Ohio, but refuses to give us the domain, even though it's not actively used.
We've received quite a few favorable comments on the screenshots I put out last week, which is encouraging. I just hope they react as favorably to the actual game.
Posted by mix at February 17, 2004 08:01 PM