Gabriel H.

I'm still discovering this blog but love it so far. I'll update or add another review later.

I love Next Door. I don't know what all the bad reviews are about! It's free, after all, and just WORKS beautifully. It's up to the users in each neighborhood to make it good or not.

Awesome website and service. Horrible name. It sounds like the purpose of the site is primarily to collect any and all angry reviews. If I was thinking about leaving positive reviews and the name "Site Jabber" surfaced, I would get slightly irritated just by the name and therefore not be as likely to give ANYTHING 5 stars. Sorry, SiteJabber, you just got 4 stars!

Initially, I had a great idea for a business name and website: let's just call it something.com.
Anyway, I did a whois search (i can't remember where but I usually use whois.net, which prominently displays the "HOVER" icon on their page). If memory serves me, this time I did a GoDaddy whois search instead. GoDaddy listed the domain as available and I registered it, and set it to private. I paid $60+. It turns out that I got so busy I never checked for my emailed receipt and after further research, my credit card didn't go through because I hadn't updated my billing address. My attempt at registration was on or around 11/30/2015. I just did a whois and my site has been taken by someone else with quite a few domains registered already. From the WHOIS information, it looks like the site was registered by that "someone else" on the same day!

I tried to request that he sell me the domain, but Hover wants $199 just to talk to him!

It could be that all whois.net traffic is monitored by Hover.com and somebody uses that data to quickly grab sites that people search for. I have no idea. Just a wild theory.