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Being a developer, you should've opened this[^] bar. 
/ravi
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I think this is quite a moderate idea. You could then sell mild drinks.
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Nagy will be moderately impressed. 🍸
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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This is moderately true.
/edit: Wait, since when do we have a gin emoticon ?
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Locally there is a small private Nazarene university. The closest bar to campus is named "The Library".
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There is a pub not that far away, called The Other Place[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We have a pub not too far from where I live called the The Why Not Inn[^]
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Quote: "Everything in Moderation"
Everything in moderation? Yuck! Where the h*ll is the fun in that? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Even "Visit us in Moderation" would work out...
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If the gentlemen and lady would care to order drinks, and then the universe will explode for your pleasure later.
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A confluence of concepts.
1.0 your career change
2.0 Talk like a pirate day
2.1 Reminded me of Ipsum-Lorum
2.11 which reminded me of pirate talk version
SO - you new career: create a gibberish generator for bar talk and drunken stammering (or is that called 'cockney'?).*
* Actually, CP could inspire a Q&A gibberish generator for both Q and A.!
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I manage a fraternal website. The link was always at or near the top a Google. When the district merged with another district, we got ourselves a new domain name which encompassed both (almost identical - just a bit shorter). After a year, allowing the transition to sink in, I let the original domain expire - still at the top of Google searches.
Well - someone bought the old domain - and since I started it 14+ years ago it keeps the history (big deal for google ranking). So now, if one searches, they turn up on top: a Thai gambling site (in Thai). This not a redirection - but a coup d'etat.
Even worse - try as I might - I cannot even get my site to show on Google. Now way to contact Google, it seems, to get them to look into the matter. Even if I search explicitly for the site it returns the usurper. I contacted domain registrar said that, unfortunately, that's the way ICANN records the date. There are 'businesses' that look precisely for such sites to get visibility.
Basically, my site was legally hijacked.
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When you buy a domain name, you also buy its Google reputation with it, so that is why some are very expensive.
In your case, you just offered somebody a good Google-ranked domain name, by letting it go expired.
Google cannot really "do something about it", I think. I also believe that its Google ranking will sink soon, but you need to be a little patient.
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I certainly hope your right. Then, of course, how do I get the correct name back in the search listings? Once there, I can try to mobilize a mini-army to click through it and move it back to page one.
For now - I'd rather have neither of us (most users are local, for informational purposes, and don't need to look it up). It just seems like a flaw in the google ranking plan.
Thanks for a bit of hope.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: how do I get the correct name back in the search listings?
$$$
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I can try to mobilize a mini-army to click through it and move it back to page one
This is (really) one SEO measures, but not the best one. What helps first is get all websites that point on your old name to point on the new one, this helps a lot. For the rest, time is your friend : bringing it back to first page will need people to click and visit your page...
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Rage wrote: I also believe that its Google ranking will sink soon,
Exactly.
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As mentioned already you can get back on top with patience or $$$, or both.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I let the original domain expire
That was the problem right there, as you found out.
You never let a domain you own expire--even if you only start using it to redirect elsewhere.
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dandy72 wrote: You never let a domain you own expire--even if you only start using it to redirect elsewhere.
I considered it and one can argue that Google's an accessory to a gentle blackmail that benefits the the Domain Registrars.
Once you have a domain, unless you drop its utility altogether you can never let it go - so they get to keep billing you. Now, the longer you 'protect' you asset (web presence and domain age), the more valuable it becomes (certainly with age) making it even more essential to keep paying for nothing. Fit's in nice with GoDaddy's low-ball startup price and not so competitive renewal pricing.
If a domain totally expires it should have the clock reset; unless, perhaps, it's the previous registered owner and the expiration was brief.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Now way to contact Google, it seems, to get them to look into the matter
If you get media attention (any form that causes it to blow up as a topic) that certainly seems to attract their attention.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Basically, my site was legally hijacked.
Yep. That is why companies continue to pay for the domain registration. Many put do nothing redirects in place as well to get it to go to new location.
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I think this is more akin to you donating a wallet to a second-hand store, not realizing you had hundreds of dollars in it.
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