Where did that come from? Unexpected FTR

[jonbyrne]

Have you ever been surprised that a domain was FTR when you where sure you had kept an eye on it.

I always try and keep an eye out for my surname .uk domain to see if any of them are dropped but they have been registered 10 + years and not dropped so I have not been able to pick any of them up. I had enquired about buying the .co.uk but no joy there either.

However when doing a bit of FTR hunt the other day I noticed that byrne.org.uk was available, so I got it in the bag

I am pretty sure it was registered recently, but I may be wrong, anyway I am happy. Not sure what i will put it to use for though, I use jonbyrne.com as my personal site and byrne.im as the family email extension. I might move my Family Tree over there.

Anyway enough rambling, have you ever been surprised like this?

 

[max99x]

not really surprised but i did end up buying my surname, i then use my first name @mysurname.co.uk which i like

 

[stellar73]

About 18 months ago I was searching for any 'obvious' FTR .me names

I must have looked at about 100 which were all taken and I suddenly decided to check 'gillian' (which is my name) and lo and behold it was available.

Not really sure what, if anything, I'm going to do with it but it was one that I couldn't not register under the circumstances...Very surprised to see it free at that late stage.