Domain Forwarding Service

The company desperately needed a domain forwarding service to save them from an unmitigated disaster. Harley's Teeny Tiny Bicycle Shoppe, which supplied infant sized bicycles to people who owned dog show acts, was in terrible trouble. The Shoppe's domain name was tinybicycles.com, but recently the registration had expired without Harley's notice, and a very sharp entrepreneur had snatched up the bike shop's site name and redirected Internet traffic to his website, tinyicicles.com. That's right folks, a place that sells little flavored icicles on a stick! Anytime an inquirer would type in tinybicycles.com, the online shopper would be directed to tinyicicles.com. Think of all the people looking for little bicycles that end up buying cherry icicles! It was a dark day for Harley. So the shop owner went on a crusade.

Harley would first need a new site name, so the bike shop owner contacted a new domain forwarding service provider. Harley was very distraught that the former domain forwarding registration and management company had not kept up with the bike shop's site name registration, which had expired almost six months earlier. This time, the site name was Harleysbikesfordogacts.com which the man thought was kind of catchy. The shop owner then asked if the Internet name service provided domain forwarding registration and the answer was yes, which was music to Harley's ears. Some thinking would have to go into his plan to gain back web customers from that icicle pusher.

A domain forwarding registration service acts very much like call forwarding on a phone. People typing in one site name are directed to another one. In many cases, this is a very helpful service for businesses or individuals with a particularly long URL address. It is also useful when a site name is misspelled and the searcher is sent to a page saying that the name can't be found. A forwarding plan using other site names that are close to the spelling of the desired site can also direct searchers to the correct site. With this idea in mind, Harley began scheming up a diabolical plan to end the icicle king's cold hearted but legal purchase of the bike shop owner's old site name.

Harley's scheme would need the services of the domain forwarding service company he was now employing to pull the whole thing off. Since site names can be very inexpensive, Harley bought eight site names very close to tinyicicles.com. As a person would type in these domain names, and he/she would automatically be taken to Harleysbikesfordogacts.com. Harley bought the following names: icicles.com, cherryicicles.com, deliciousicicles.com, littleicicles.com, smallicicles.com, and then the real kickers, yinyicicles.com, rinyicicles.com, ginyiciles.com and finyicicles.com. Just check your computer keyboard for those last four site names. Harley was hoping for a lot of really poor typists wanting tiny icicles, but hitting the keys surrounding the t key! And as part of the whole ploy, Harley began advertising tiny flavored icicles on a stick at his website. It makes perfect sense that people shopping for teeny tiny bikes for dog acts would also want a tiny grape icicle on a stick, right?

"And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also." (Luke 6:29) Harley had not considered this particular truth when hatching his scheme. Everything he did was above board and legal. But legal doesn't always mean ethical. But a domain forwarding service is very helpful for businesses wanting to shorten their URL addresses, or who want to make sure that misspelled domain names still end up at their website. It's hard to believe that many large corporations may actually have thousands of site names, just to cover every possible scenario of a missed address. In this instance, a domain forwarding registration and management service would be the only option to keep track of all the registration expiration dates and attempts to use the names by other companies or individuals.

Harley was thrilled with the results of his marketing ploy. A lot of poor typists looked for finy icicles and were instead taken to Harleysbikesfordogacts.com, where they saw a perfect place to start a new hobby of training dogs to ride a miniature bike, but to also indulge in a sweet tooth craving for a tiny strawberry icicle on a stick. Alas, the whole scheme caught up with Harley one day when he wondered why the foot traffic into his shop and the online business had really slowed down to a crawl. Out of sheer boredom, he went to tinyicicles.com and was absolutely blown away. The icicle king had started selling tiny bicycles for dog acts along with now big flavored icicles on a stick. Harley was beaten all the way around, because the ice man had also bought a number of domain names very close to Harleysbikesfordogacts.com which included Charleysbikesfordogacts.com. Harley became so despondent that he closed the shop for two days and ate every one of tiny icicles, except the watermelon flavored ones, in the freezer.

In the world we live in, everyone has to cover their tracks. Businesses might have to employ a domain forwarding registratoin service. But everyone is very aware that trust among the human race is at an all time low. When God declared "Peace on earth and goodwill towards men," He was not talking about peace on earth between men but peace on earth between God and man because of Jesus' birth and its aftermath. Poor Harley had lost sight of the real purpose in life: there are a whole lot more important things than trying to get back at someone else, even if it's on the Internet.



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