LinkMoney.org

I have several old Blogs in Google Blogger under various subjects. They are well known, firmly entrenched and are my major traffic generators for the fields they are in. I use Feedblitz to handle the subscribers on them.

If you use Feedblitz as an email subscription handler, then you probably received an email similar to the excerpted parts below.

Hello, (yaddy yaddy…)

Custom domains are fully functional micro-sites that make life simpler for your subscribers by simplifying access to your newsletters and (, yaddy yaddy…) To make things even easier, we have reserved the following domains for you (these default reservations expire Aug 10, 2008, 23:59:59 EDT, which is why I’m writing to you now.)

(Entered here are various versions of your website’s partial url, the main keyword from your website, your email name, etc. all with the dot feedblitz.com extension.)

(For instance, but not offered for this website because I do not use Feedblitz on this one, eg: linkmoney.feedblitz.com and richhill.feedblitz.com.)

For under a buck a month per domain you get branded pages, simplified access and brand security. Even if you do nothing else, we recommend buying the domain for your main blog. Go to www.feedblitz.com/ (, yaddy yaddy…) now to see the reservations we’ve made on your behalf and activate the ones you want before they expire.

(Inserted here is a warning that someone else might gobble this up and become your competition.)

Thanks,

Phil Hollows,
Founder,
FeedBlitz, LLC.

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Does any of that smack of extortion to you?

Actually I don’t see anything to worry about, because this same sort of thing will be happening with all of the new TLDs that are coming out in a year or so, this just sort of caught me off guard and I was upset to see the samples shown, with my own hard earned domain names in them.

Oh and when you click on the sample it takes you to a demo site that does not say anything at all about the dot feedblitz extension, it just plain says something like “Welcome to LinkMoney!” (Again, used as an example, not actual.)

I bet that email will piss more people off than Phil ever expected.

LOL