As everyone probably knows, today GoDrops #1 went down causing the feeds during the Live Chat + Drop to sit suspiciously still. I received a DM tweet from a GoDropper about it, but didn’t get to fixing the problem until this afternoon — thankfully in time for eNom’s afternoon drops.

Oh, if you’re NOT following me on Twitter… http://twitter.com/godrops

So, the problem had to do with the .com/.net WHOIS servers; they were being flaky not during opening connections or sending requests, but when receiving responses. My script was just hanging and NOT timing-out as it should have been doing…

I’ve fixed the problem my timing out in 5 seconds if WHOIS doesn’t respond. Things should be back to normal now.. whew!

Thanks For Hanging In There!

Just got the GoDrops scanner back on-line, sorry for the brief black-out. eNom taster drops should have been recorded and emails sent out by now. Hijinx insued today when at the cafe where I had been running the scanner from my laptop, the ice-tea, which was very good BTW, had taken its course and made the last half of the drop particularly uncomfortable. Not to worry, I took it all with me to the boys room and no one NOT chatting should have been the wiser…

Anyway, if anyone has a shell account I could borrow, please shoot me a message!

Everyone seemed to prefer the uStream.tv chat widget over the Meebo one — less spam, more responsive, etc… Not sure if the chat logs are kept; sometimes it’s nice to go back and see what everyone was talking about if I couldn’t be there or forgot some details.

Anywho, tomorrow (Sunday) during the Live Chat + Drop, I’ll be giving some fixed-prices on a few domains to raise some $$$. Maybe I’ll do a reverse auction on them too, not sure… So, come tomorrow to see what domains YOU could get on the cheap!

If you come to the Live Chat + Drop, as a GoDrops member, you can place a WATCH on domains that are Tasted off the drop. When those names drop again, YOU get an email notifying of the domain’s availablity. You can also place a WATCH on names from the Daily Report page.

Overtime, you may place A LOT of domains “on watch”, but there was never a page where you could see ALL the names you’re watching at once. Introducing the Watch Page! Here, you can see what you’re watching from today and previous days. Click a name to remove it from your watch. Yes, it’s THAT easy