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EDITORIAL INTRO FOR ISSUE 191

“Don’t give up on that domain name, because not everyone is looking to shaft you”

I’ve had a month dominated by domain names, after I decided that it was time to try and secure danoliver.com and danoliver.co.uk. The .com was a washout, as it was being sat on by a squatting motherf ... well, you know what I’m saying. Having made an offer via www.sedo.co.uk (a handy site for bidding on URLs), it became clear the .com was out of my price range. So I moved on. I’d noticed that danoliver.co.uk was being used as a staging URL. The next step was making contact with the owner. I found a phone number for the company whose site was being staged on the URL, and gave them a call. They then gave me the number for the owner, a developer named Jeffrey Parker. Jeff was a true gent, and agreed to transfer the domain at no charge, as he had no further use for it. Result!

So, the moral? Don’t give up on that domain name, because not everyone is looking to shaft you. And that’s a good thing.

.net issue 191 is on sale now!

Power up your sites with APIs Craig Grannell investigates the increasing prevalence of APIs, and how you can use the technology to create richer and more creative websites	The speculation game Is working for free ever worth it? Karl Hodge weighs up the pros and cons of pro bono, design competitions and spec work
Asia’s internet crackdown In the midst of economic turmoil and political upheaval, governments across south-east Asia are ‘doing a China’ and restricting web freedom. Can its fragile cyber-democracies survive? Geoffrey Cain reports	Interview with Pete Cashmore Launched from Pete Cashmore’s home in 2005, Mashable now gets 5m page views a month and is poised to overtake TechCrunch. He talks to .net about redesigns, micro-content and joining the social conversation
Optimise your site for Google Flash websites should work well with Google, the iPhone and the back button. Paul Falgout of Nashville-based digital agency Otterball explains how to make sure they do	Create Ajax-driven live chat Damian Gaweda of London-based web agency Brilliant UK demonstrates how to add Ajax-driven live chat to your site using jQuery and PHP