nik newark

italian garden porn dot com

Once upon a time, I had a domain name, “niknewark.com”. It was hosted by a company called **name of company deleted, as I've berated them enough in the past - let's call them Breamlinenet**, whose comprehensive catalog of incompetencies led to me switching hosting providers. Somewhere in the ensuing melee (amidst phones going unanswered and emails disappearing into a black hole), the good folks at Breamlinenet decided to fail to transfer one of my domains, niknewark.com. Even after it had expired, they wouldn't respond to requests from my new hosting provider to release it.

Until, one day, it was suddenly released and promptly bought up by an Italian cybersquatter, who then proceeded to host a website promoting strange cocktail of porn and garden supplies. I wish I was kidding. So, apologies if you mistakenly visited niknewark.com and found something other than what you were looking for, but I hope you were at least mildly amused. I would have mentioned it before (whilst the site was still up), but I didn't want to give my Italian chum any more hits than he deserved (aside from hits of the around-the-back-of-the-head-with-a-garden-ho variety).

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, I received the following message:-

From: Domains (domains@tripoduk.com)
To: (My email address removed to foil spambots. Note, I didn't bother removing the one above ;-)
Date: Tue Aug 02, 2005 05:13:42 PM BST
Subject: niknewark.COM

Hi,

I am writing to inform you that niknewark.COM has expired and will be released to the public within the next few days.

There is a good chance that there will be several interested parties attempting to capture this domain when it is released, these will vary from parties with a genuine interest to domain name speculators otherwise known as cyber squatters who often put large price tags on such domains.

We are domain acquisition specialists and I felt that as the owner of niknewark.CO.UK, you would have a much more genuine interest in acquiring niknewark.COM.

If you would like us to try and acquire this domain on your behalf then please let me know as soon as possible preferably within the next 4 days as any later and it may be too late.

If you are genuinely interested, then I recommend you either call me on (UK +44) (0) 207 471 1803 or email me a number so that I can call you, as any delays in email communication could result in missing out on this domain.


Kind Regards

Gary

Needless to say, I didn't take Gary up on his offer. Astoundingly, none of the many other interested parties (all of whom doubtless recognise a highly unique and desirable domain name when they see one) tried to buy the domain, so I got it back in the end (after patiently waiting for 18 months). You can now visit this web site at http://www.niknewark.com. Sadly though, I can no longer recommend where to go for your garden porn requirements.