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For the past few months I have been planning on setting up a new business. Now this takes some planning as you might imagine and having being self employed before for four years before, it takes an additional leap of faith to decide whether I actually want to execute my business plan. Being self employed is a feast or famine affair and can be incredibly difficult at times but I have to find some way to pay for college in September since the registration fees have doubled for this year.

Anyway I chose a name for my potential business but it was going to be dependent on the availablility of the domain name. Much to my surprise the domain was available so I snapped it up straight away.(via the ever efficient and affordable Blacknight of course.)

But there is a downside. The domain name had belonged to a previous business and the amount of spam being targeted to the domain name is quite significant. Fortunately 99.9% of it is being filtered by my mail gateway.

Another interesting and curious side effect is that the previous owners of the domain had also registered a shortened version of it which they still own. Unfortunately for them they configured it as a CNAME (alias) to the domain that I now control and subsequently my servers are busy rejecting mail and web requests for this second domain.

I still haven’t decided whether or not my business plan will make it off the drawing board. I hope to reach that decision in the next few weeks as I’m currently in negotiations with a potential client so watch this space.