I've wanted to own davidcurry.com for a long time now. Who wouldn't want their own name, right? Sure I should have bought it back in the day, but i owned some other domains and honestly didn't care about it... That changed a few years later and the only thing left was jdavidcurry.com, so I grabbed it. I'd like to get davecurry.com too, but another Dave has that one locked up until 2012. Fine.

SO anyway, earlier this year, I noticed that davidcurry.com's expiration was nearing. I started doing some research and found Mike Davidson's excellent article on how to snatch an expiring domain. Davidcurry.com was registered through Network Solutions, so I signed up at SnapNames and placed my backorder. I'd pay $60 bucks if SnapNames secured my name and figured an auction situation would only happen if there was another Dave out there who wanted davidcurry.com as badly as I did.

For a few weeks I just waited. Then one morning I checked SnapNames and saw that another user, Saggydimes, had placed an initial bid of $60 for davidcurry.com, turning my simple backorder into an auction. Another Dave I thought. Great!

A few days later I got curious and googled Saggydimes only to discover that I was now in an auction situation with a supposed bot owned by BuyDomains.

Fantastic.

Saggydimes had been bidding in an awful lot of SnapNames' auctions, he(it) almost always won, some of his(its) bids were in the thousands of dollars, and now he(it) wanted my name. I mean how much marketing potential does davidcurry.com have? And exactly how much money would a robot(person) be willing to spend?

I was stressed.

Yesterday, right before noon, davidcurry.com dropped and SnapNames snagged it.

Moments later I got an email saying I had been outbid. It was on.

For about 20 minutes, I would bid, and Saggydimes would bid me up. I was prepared to bid $100, but not much more. Then I got to $100 and couldn't stop. I hit $110 and saw another one of these:

How much was Saggydimes going to spend for my name? Geesh!

What really sucks about this "auction" set up is that everytime a new bid is recieved, SnapNames extends the auction by 5 minutes or so. I'm assuming this is done so bots, and maybe slow-clicking patrons, have time to respond with a bid. Thanks A LOT SnapNames.

I placed one final bid of $120 and waited. One minute passed and no counter bid had been placed, then two minutes, then three.

(FYI, I edited this image to fit and removed my actual user id)

Finally, the auction closed. I had secured davidcurry.com. Yay!

I received confirmation from SnapNames, they billed me immediately, but I'm still waiting on an email from Networks Solutions, so there's nothing at davidcurry.com yet.

And the cost? Not too bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm out $120 instead of $60, thanks to a loveable bot(person? company?) named Saggydimes.

If you're name is available, go buy it right now before some domain-buying company snatches it up.

Font Feed has a great showcase with font breakdowns of ever-so-sexy web 2.0 logos.

Above image from Stabilo Boss' overwhelming Web 2.0 Logos set.

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I know I'm 9 days late, but here we go again! For the remainder of March, Sunday dinner through Thursday dinner, twenty-five restaurants in Seattle are offering you a little more bang for your buck. A three course prix-fixe dinner for $25, and in some cases a $12 prix-fixe lunch.

Realistically, you aren't going to go eat out 25 times this month, (I'm not counting all those trips to Red Mill) so here's my short-listed recommendations cheat sheet. It's quick, easy to follow and suitable for printing.

Dave's Super-Delicious Top 5 For $25 Cheat Sheet

1. Eva Restaurant
2. Nell's
3. Restaurant Zoë
4. Flying Fish
5. Campagne

All of the above will satisfy your wild culinary cravings and leave your tummy quite happy. Why try the rest when you can try the best?!? If you choose to go elsewhere avoid the risotto.

Speaking of elsewhere, how have so many corporate restaurants managed to finagle their way into the somewhat exclusive 5-squared club? Not to name names, but "name-brand" restaurants smack underneath ginormous hotels? It's quite disheartening. Seattle easily has 50+ top notch locally owned eateries that deserve this kind of publicity. I wanna see more of them, and less of the others, come November when 25 for $25 happens again.

'Nuff said. Now go eat!

Official 25 for $25 Link

Neat. He's accessing his computer with his DS.

Can you believe they were passing out these t-shirts for free when it was all said and done? Nothing like some free swag.

Saw some good stuff this time around. Best tip I picked up was from the guys who did the LeoBurnett.com site. Sounds super simple, but when a user changes the volume while watching a video, make that level persistant throughout the entire site. It's so obvious, why didn't I think of that?