In the past, I bought quite a few domain names with the intention of building an application, website, funny little page, or anything in-between. The majority of those sites are sitting completely unused. I doubt they are popular domains or very desirable, but in case they are, I’ve put together a little page saying “I’m not squatting on this domain name” and letting people e-mail me if they want the domain name. And I will sell it to them for what I paid for it. Why not; I’m not using it. And squatters suck! Yeah, I’ll let them expire when that time comes, but I usually did 2+ year registration (ah, being overzealous).
Here’s what the page looks like (big ups to Josh for the original design used in FreshBerry’s signup form):
InvoiceWatcher.com - not squatting
If you want to do the same, and like the look of that, I figured I’d post the code and share (the download is at the bottom of this post).
Necessary pre-requisites
- PHP (tested with PHP 4 and PHP 5)
- The ability to send mail from PHP (see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php )
Instruction to set it up
- Sign up for re-catpcha at http://www.recaptcha.net and copy your public and private keys.
- Open index.php and put your public key in the top
- Open send.php and put your private key and email address in the top
Download
NotSquatting.zip. (No license, use as you wish, without restriction or warranty). Have fun! And don’t squat. Squatters suck.
