JimWorld Gazette Issue #51 05/01/1998

Gazette - Issue #51 - May 1, 1998

-- Helpware update!
-- Sites update
-- Is Free-For-All for you?
-- Tips from the Hitman - Part XXXI
-- This one is not a hoax. Honest!
-- New tool for you
-- Snippets
-- A Gazeteer heard from
-- Still think spam control laws are a good thing?
-- Don't be taken in by this one!

Link to this issue of the Gazette as http://gazetteworld.com/go/to.cgi?l=g51

HELPWARE UPDATE

Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to list your sites in the Helpware Directory. The directory is starting to look populated. However, Yahoo! has nothing to fear yet.

The Helpware Directory now has its own URL <http://helpwaresites.com/> Please update your links to the directory when you have a chance. The instructions on the site now list this as the address to use in links.

As a quick review, you can have up to five pages listed in the directory. They have to be five different pages, and each must contain the button and the link. Each must be in a different, yet appropriate, category in the directory.

Keep those submissions coming in. Next week we will be starting the promotion program to build traffic and awareness to the directory, which in turn brings more traffic back to your sites.

SITES UPDATE

It's a busy time. The move to the new server is almost completed, along with a much-needed reorganization of the basic file structure of the site.

The Get High (Traffic) Forums and the Search Engine Forums continue to build more traffic each week. The discussions are creating results for lots of webmasters, which keeps everyone coming back. I will be upgrading the software for both sets of Forums this week, so you will see lots of new features.

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JimWorld is participating in a promotional program called 'The Ultimate Promotion' through which web sites can sign up to be included in a magazine insert that will be put into several nationally distributed magazines. Our part of the promotion is to host a set of Forums for the program. It is a group of discussions about various networking techniques (business and personal networking, not computer networks)

You can drop in for a look and participate if you are so moved. <http://jimworld.com/bin/netforumbin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro> It's just getting off the ground, so it is a good opportunity for the Gazeteers to start some new discussions.

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A ton of you have apparently signed up for the 321Website.com offer that appeared as part of last week's Gazette. The developer of the system wrote to say he was amazed at how you folks have taken to this one. You can get more information at the link below to the Missing From The Web project.

Which brings us back to the Missing From The Web project. Several very good ideas have been posted, but we need lots more. If you have a good idea for a web site or service, drop by and put it in the data base. Need a good idea for a new site? We've already got several. Free.

<http://jimworld.com/mftw.html>

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I've gotten a lot of email about the new server. All thanking me for finding such a fast, reliable service to house this community. I agree. This server is a dream to work with. Thanks again to Verio (iServer) for donating such a high-quality service to help us keep up with its growth.

<http://iserver/>

IS FREE-FOR-ALL FOR YOU?

As you know, I've been using the Free-For-All submission services of Link-O-Matic <http://www.linkomatic.com/index.cgi?10097> for several months and getting good results. But there is another side to the whole issue.

Who are all of these web site operators who have FFA pages for me to post to, and why do they do it? What are they trying to accomplish?

So I went looking. All over. Must have looked at over 200 FFA sites. I came away with 'I have no idea what they are trying to achieve with these pages'

What I found was a lot of Matt's FFA scripts, installed right out of the zip file, with no other thought than to get a bunch of hits. Most pages that I visited didn't even have a link to the main site, so they couldn't be hoping to get much main-site traffic from people that go to the FFA page.

Or maybe they were, but didn't know how to make it happen.

So here I go again.

Off I go to the Link-O-Matic site to get their new, free Free-For-All page script that is a much improved upgrade to Matt's long-in-the-tooth, venerable old script.

Link-O-Matic has done a good job at adding porn filters, security and reliability to the script. I uploaded it, set the permissions, and ran it. It ran.

And there it sat looking just like all of the other pages I had seen. Boring.

So I asked myself, what did I want it to do for me? It wasn't Link-O-Matic's fault. They had provided a great starting point, and it really is my job to make it do what I want for my site.

Now, you might ask 'But who visits FFA pages?'

While I can't tell you everybody that visits, I can tell you a very large group that visits. Webmasters who have submitted their link to my page, making sure it actually worked. Webmasters? Isn't that who I want to sucker into visiting the rest of my communities? How can I do that?

One way is to actually make them read my message before they get down to the area where they can check to make sure that I did actually add their link.

So that's what I did. Go see it at <http://jimworld.com/ffa/links.html>

Then I added a link from the JimWorld home page and the page started to get a trickle of submissions. But these were already people that knew of JimWorld. They came for the home page. That's not going to help build traffic, even though it is a nice courtesy to the VP community.

So I fired off a message to the President of Link-O-Matic and told him about my cool FFA page. By the time I got his response, I already had a couple of hundred links on the FFA page. He put VP right into his automated FFA submission service (the very one I use) and BINGO - submissions.

But submissions aren't traffic. Just server load. Better look at the server logs to see if it is doing any real good to my traffic.

Well, logs don't lie (at least Unix logs don't) and aside from the couple of hundred submissions, there were about 20 percent of the submitters that were actually coming to the FFA page see if their link was really there. That's nice. At least they are seeing the community message and getting a chance to subscribe to the Gazette.

Did they subscribe? Yes. About 1 out of 8 that came to look actually subscribed. At that first day's submission level, that equated to 5 new subscribers the first evening, and submissions were bound to go up. That's 200+ new subscribers each month. That alone repays the small effort required to bring up the FFA page.

What about the number of FFA page visitors that were actually cruising over to the main site? Again, the logs were encouraging. Of the 20 percent of submitters that came to check the page, almost 25 percent of those are going somewhere on the main site.

So, for a couple of hours work I picked up 10 main-site visitors and 5 subscriptions the first evening. Not bad. Not bad at all.

So, what's the moral here?

Art galleries wouldn't last long if they just thumbtacked paintings up on the wall and waited for someone to stumble in and buy it. They have it framed. They spend hours compulsing over just the right wall to hang it on, at what height and next to which other pieces. Then they light it, and re-light it and move it and move it back and advertise it and have Meet The Artist parties. They work. They think. They push everything to the limit.

You have to do the same thing with everything you do to your site. Make it work for you. If it isn't working for you, fix it. Try something. Promote it. Sell it. Get someone else to help you. Try. Try. Think. Try. Push it to the limit.

The FFA page is now a permanent fixture on my sites. At least until it doesn't work for me any longer. If it stops working, and I can't fix it... NEXT! There is always a next.

TIPS FROM THE HITMAN - PART XXXI

Well, I hope you all enjoyed the first anniversary issue of the Gazette, I know I did. This week I am getting back on track with our discussions of specific Search Engines and what is and is not important to a good listing and what to avoid.

This time around, we will take a look at Excite. I now consider Excite to be the single most important Search Engine to have a good listing in. Excite controls Excite of course, plus the Magellan Search Engine, and now Web Crawler. To top off the list, Excite also serves up the default Search Engine at America On-Line, AOL Netfind. The name may be different, but a listing that appears in Excite on the first page of results will also appear in the same position in AOL Netfind. The fact that AOL is the single largest Internet Service Provider in the United States, and is also the place many people get their first look at the Internet, makes it a key area to have a good listing. Getting good exposure with Excite means you will have exposure second only to a great listing at Yahoo in my opinion.

Excite works a bit different that many of the other Search Engines we have talked about in the last few months. Despite the differences some of the key items of good page design we have discussed in the past still hold true. Some things will likely always be important. I will cover the basics, then we will talk about specifics and a plan of attack for submitting to Excite.

As has been said so many times you are likely tired of hearing it, a good title with your keywords in it is a must. If you don't understand what I just said, STOP, do not pass GO and go straight to JimWorld Web site and enter the word title in the search engine at the bottom of the page and start reading older articles on the subject.

Unlike other Search Engines, meta tags do absolutely nothing at Excite. Since I am going to suggest that you either build a page just for Excite, or look for one of your pages that best fits the Excite model, you will be best served not using meta tags at all on the page you submit, or if nothing else, do not waste any time trying to tune up meta tags for Excite. It would be wasted effort better spent in the page body.

With exception of the page title, Excite only looks at words that are visible to the viewer of the page in question. This means heading text, page text, visible links or the clickable words in a page link. Excite does not consider comment tags, alt. tags, JAVA script or other items in the code that are not clearly visible when the page is displayed on your browser.

What kind of pages do well on Excite? Excite likes pages that tend to stick to emphasizing a particular keyword or keyword phrase. Pages with a high repetition of the keyword spread throughout the text of the page will do better than pages that cover many subjects or keywords. Be warned that clumping or repeating keywords over and over close together will likely have the reverse effect and get a spamming penalty.

If you look at the top pages for your keyword at Excite, you will very likely find pages that have the keyword often in the active links. There may even be a long list of links to other pages with many or most containing the keyword or keyword phrase. A good example here is to do a search for Gillian Anderson of X -File fame. If you look at the page in the number one position, you will see a great example of this method at work. Of 415 words on the page, Gillian appears in links 59 time, Anderson 53. Keywords in links work. The number 2 page is also a link list, and Gillian Anderson is a very popular search, in the top 100 most searched phrases, so this technique pulls a lot of weight. Still in doubt look at number 3. If you look at number four, you see it fits the model outlined in the paragraph above this one, the use of a high concentration of specific keywords.

If you look down this same page, you will see that the keyword is in most of the titles but not all, but is there another clue here if we look at the listings for the keywords? Notice the URL for the pages. Many pages have the keywords as part of the actual URL. An example would be the listings 2,4,5,6 7 and 10. This is not a coincidence, Excite seems to give pages with a keyword imbedded in the URL a higher position.

One last type of page that often does well is the pointer type page that has been discussed in the past issues (you know where to look it up) Pointer pages at Excite should use the keyword in the title and heavy use of the keywords as mentioned above. Any of your pages that focus on a specific keyword or have a heavy focus on one topic with high repetition of the keywords will do well. Listing #6 for Gillian is an example of this type of page. It happens to contain several links but they do no fall into the category of the keyword in the link as above. Shorter, highly focused pointer pages under 10K in size will also often do well in many cases. This type of page may be best if you are unable to come up with the long list of keyword link type pages. Sometimes it can't be done with niche products or services. This is an alternative method to try. Don't forget to work the keyword into the actual URL.

I hope this sheds some new light on the elusive Excite. I still find it to be one of the most challenging Search Engines. It also has the infuriating habit of dropping a good listing for no known reason, but, hey, no one said this was supposed to be easy!

Remember always: do your homework and look at the top listings for your keyword before you do anything to your page.

Good luck and high positions!

Hayden Mitchell
Web Themes
<http://www.webthemes.com/>

THIS ONE IS NOT A HOAX. HONEST.

Steve has a Windows bug posted on the SmartDesk site that really can mess up your computer. It exposes a window of opportunity in the TCP/IP stack that allows someone to attack your computer and cause the dreaded 'blue screen' we all love so well.

It is the dreaded WinNuke program that does the damage, and you don't have to be running a server on your computer to be vulnerable. Just having TCP/IP installed opens you up. And if you are on the Internet, you almost surely have TCP/IP running.

So, what to do? Visit the SmartDesk Technical Forums, look under the WebSuite Support Forum and you'll see it. Read Steve's post and download the Microsoft patch from his server and run it. Nothing to install. Just run it and it will fix the problem forever.

You can find the SmartDesk Technical Forums at <http://192.41.61.83/sdforumbin/Ultimate.cgi>

BTW - We're running the new version 4.5 of the Ultimate BB forum software on the system, so take a look around. Aside from a lot of good programming conversation, drop in on Mark's Graphics Forum and get his advice on web graphics. If you're thinking about adding discussion forums to your site, this is the one you want.

NEW TOOL FOR YOU

The JPEG Wizard Online
<http://www.jpg.com/jpeg-wizard.html>

Time to make your site load faster. In fact, it's always time to make your site load faster. The slogan around here should be "Have you shrunk your site today?' But rest assured, I will never stop harping on this issue.

I'm going to take away one more lousy excuse for not shrinking your site. Visit Pegasus and use their brand-spanking-new online JPEG compressor, JPEG Wizard. Not to be confused with GIF Wizard. Fortunately, their ability to shrink JPEGs is much better than their ability to pick good product names. (Hard to believe how low I will sink for a line, isn't it. I've been reduced to taking even obvious shots.)

The on-line tool is well organized and documented. Do yourself a big favor and read the documentation before jumping in. You will get much better results.

I ran several of the my jpg's through their compressor and did not get any benefit, but that is really a testament to Ulead's Webrazor compressor which I have been using compulsively for several months.

However, I did run some of YOUR stuff through (from several Gazeteer sites I found in the Get High Forums) and WOW! Savings up to 70% with NO artifacts I couldn't live with.

The tool shows you several different levels of compressions at the same time, plus the original for comparison purposes. See one you like and just save it to your hard drive. The tool only works on files stored on your hard drive, but that is not a problem. Response time is very good.

It has an advantage over most other compressors. It does not decompress before compressing your image. It uses the data as it finds it, so you get mostly no generational loss. Very cool feature.

It also has the ability to rotate a jpg image without decompressing it first. That has long been a problem that has frustrated every designer I know. Every time you rotate a compressed jpg, it comes out looking worse. Not so with the Wizard.

I've been playing with the Wizard all week. All in all, a very cool tool.

SNIPPETS

Live Picture
<http://www.livepicture.com/press/releases/h1.html>

A new technology is making its way onto the Web, strand-by-strand. The biggest problem with audio and images on the web has been the problem of keeping the whole thing in synch, especially when taking into account the problems of bandwidth.

Live Picture has teamed up with Real Networks to bring their joint technology to market which will allow for synchronized audio and images (even slide shows) delivered at speeds that adapt to the user's bandwidth. This could make for an interesting new marketing and training vehicle. As if we needed more things to implement.

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
<http://www.issn.org> International
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/> United States

You've all seen those ISSN numbers at the end of periodicals and newsletters. But do you have one for your newsletter? I didn't. But I will soon.

I just finally got around to registering for an ISSN number for the Gazette, and it should be issued within the new three weeks. It only took about 15 minutes total, and the perceived value of having an official ISSN number is worth the effort. It will make a strong statement about your newsletter.

This means that the Gazette will be included in the world-wide directory of all registered periodicals. Libraries, among others, will be able to find the Gazette from anywhere in the world whenever someone asks about it. That's pretty cool. Right in there with Newsweek.

The cost is... Free. Just stop in and fill out the form. Email it to them along with a sample copy of the newsletter, and you become a real, honest-to-gosh publisher. Next you'll be making a buy out offer for the LA Times. Can I have a writing job when you do?

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Domain Tax Approved
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C21722%2C00.html?owv

Congress this week retroactively approved a tax on the registration of Internet domain names--a tax that had been struck down by a federal judge three weeks earlier.

You heard about it. The two year fee for a domain name through Internic went from $100 down to $70. All because it was ruled to be an illegal tax. It had never been approved by Congress, but was rather a tax that a government agency decided we should pay.

The courts ruled that minor government agencies were not empowered to create new taxes. So the media was buzzing with the news that we would all get our $30 per domain back as a refund.

Considering that Congress has never met a tax that it didn't like, they implemented the 'Oops Clause' whereby they can retroactively pass a tax and keep the money that was collected. They did stop short of trying to reimpose the tax, so for now, at least, the price stays at $70 for new domain names.

Surely Congress can find a 'Double Oops Clause' to get this tax back on the books.

The saddest part of this whole issue is the governmental attention it has brought to the Internet taxation issue. Congress just loves untaxed territory and it is going to be harder for them to leave the Internet alone.

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Professionalism, Ethics And Courtesy On The Net
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/mi05091e.html

Good article by Gazeteer Claire Belilos about behavior on the Net. Give it a good read. Pass it along. We can always use more ethics on the Web.

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U.K. Directory
http://www.ukdirectory.co.uk/

Add your URL (U.K. Sites only) to this nicely done and well populated web directory. You can even go back and edit your listing later when things change. Cool.

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Totally Absurd
http://www.totallyabsurd.com/

This week's fun break is going to keep you entertained for a while, so put out the cat before clicking. Totally Absurd looks at the most odd real inventions from man's strange creative past. I really got stuck at this site and lost all track of time.

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Chinese Domain Registration Service
http://www.ChinaBiG.com

Unicom Media Limited, producers of the ChinaBiG Yellow Pages and Business Guide announced the introduction of a new domain name registration service designed to assist the international Internet community in creating an online presence in mainland China, as well as for the worldwide Chinese population.

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Web Demographics Changing
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/msnb/0430/311653.html

The population of Web users is now nearly identical to the statistical makeup of the United States, with men and women making up nearly equal parts, and whites, blacks and Hispanics represented in proportions that mirror their shares of the population, according to a new survey.

Some 58 million Americans, or 30 percent of the population, are now online, according to the study, up from a mere 13.5 million in 1995.

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A Rose By Any Other Name...
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0430/311628.html

Lots of people, when they fat-finger the keyboard, wind up at the book site <http://www.amazom.com/> instead of their intended destination of <http://www.amazon.com/>

From their site you can search on-line book sites, but not Amazon's. Interesting story. Do you think it is underhanded or just smart business?

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ASP Scripting Reference
http://www.q-tek.com/Q-Asp/QAspDoc.htm

Nicely done, comprehensive site covering the techniques of Active Server Pages programming.

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Giant Shareware List
http://www.q-tek.com/websr32/shareware2.htm

I didn't know there were this many shareware site on the Web, but if I were promoting a piece of shareware, I'd be very happy to find this list of hundreds of places to list your program.

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The Singles Center Seeks Single Role Models
http://www.singlescenter.com/PR.htm

The Singles Center, A New On-line Gathering Place for Singles, is searching for single Role Models who are involved in community volunteering. Candidates may be nominated by any individual or organization by submitting a Nomination form at The Singles Center web site at http://www.singlescenter.com or at the next networking event on May 23rd, 1998. The event will be held at The Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Rochester NY.

(Great on-line promotional idea!)

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Internet Commerce Site Banner Exchange
http://www.fallcreektech.com/adex

Banner Exchange service limited to internet commerce sites, sites offering business services or business resources. Banners should be 400 X 40 and no more than 20k in size. Animations are welcome.

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Subject: it's not free ...

Aloha!

I just wanted to let you know that we are paying our dues! We are volunteer instructors of an independent study class on web design and management for a high school here on the island of Oahu (Hawaii) and we use tips from your Gazette on a regular basis.

It's been great help to be able to run thru your info ... we certainly suffer from info-overload on all this stuff and can hardly keep up with it all. Having you do all the screening helps us give our students some good info in a timely fashion.

Also, one of our students as a volunteer project is building the site for the Kailua Chamber of Commerce - so all the commercial tips has come in handy with that.

Thanks for all the work you do. We say "mahalo."

John and Peggy Milliman
and Karen Muronaka
Kalaheo High School
Webmasters Class

A GAZETEER HEARD FROM

Hello Jim,

You took the words from my mouth!!

Sounds at first like I'm accusing you - but the first few paragraphs of Steve's article on "Why JimWorld?" in Gazette #50 really struck home with me. There are three key sentences in that piece that IMHO really need to be etched into the design ethos of every webmaster -

viz. "After all, many people still cannot grasp the basic concept of community."

These words really grabbed my attention. In my short experience as a webmaster this has been a key issue. I hope that the Gazette will be able to give us some further guidance on putting this right. I often feel that I'm alone within our sphere of UK model railways, where similar sites are often little more than dead notice boards. I reckon that most of our new visitors come into a "culture shock" when they arrive, because we almost bully them into taking an active part in what's going on. It seems to work, because most visitors highly rate our Visitor Research Projects and Information Exchange pages. This can be borne out by reading through our visitors book.

viz. "None of this happens without ongoing considerable expense and effort, both of which are wholly shielded from the community."

How true - in our case, being an educational charity on a very limited budget, the expense is mostly in volunteer time.

viz. "We do this gladly while maintaining an impartial place for the advancement of knowledge without dangling a price tag or running a meter."

I know it's a pipedream, but just what would "NetBashers Inc" have left to say if all the web were to follow this example?

This latest Gazette has set me thinking toward providing a Webmaster's focus page on our site, with the aim of addressing the first two sentences, bearing in mind the challenges of the third. Can I have permission to quote Steve, please?

I'd also like to add my thanks for the content of the Gazette. I'm only a recent "recruit", and I wasn't too sure of what to make of this at first.

I would now strongly advise any recent new recipients to resist the urge to do what almost comes naturally - so don't follow the advice on how to remove yourself - it's certain that somewhere along the line you'll find yourself saying "Now, why didn't I think of that?"

In closing, if anyone wonders upon how they can resolve their consciences in the Gazette "Payment Due" - Just truthfully answer the following questions, and see if you can answer YES to all of them...

Would you like to be informed of broken links on your site?
Are you really sure that your site has no broken links?
Are you often advised about a broken link?
Do you get just slightly peeved that you have found a broken link on a site that you have enjoyed visiting; up to the point where you found it?
Do you then make a point of sending a friendly email to the webmaster?

If any of your recipients are into UK railways, its history, research or building models, then a warm welcome awaits you at the Historical Model Railway Society's site http://www.hmrs.org.uk

regards and thanks,
Peter S.

STILL THINK SPAM CONTROL LAWS ARE A GOOD THING?

For those of you who don't believe that spam control laws, as they are being implemented, won't destroy your ability to function on the Net, I present for your consideration an email sent by a person that voluntarily subscribed to the Gazette. How long do you think on-line publications will last when bozos have the power to sue everyone in sight for their own absent-mindedness?

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I run a service which answers children's email science questions. I just received your advertizement. I want you to know that my service is being significantly damaged by the current flood of email advertizing messages. Eskimo.com blocks most of these, but still I must read up to 30 ads a day before deleting them, because I cannot take a chance and delete a child's message. I only have about 1/2hr per day to help kids, so you can imagine that the email plague is seriously hurting my service.

Take my name off your bulk mailing list immediately, and do not contact me again for any reason.

Myself, I strongly support US congressional bill HR 1748 which makes this practice illegal, and provides for recipients to sue the sender for up to $1500 per message. See: ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/c105/h1748.ih.txt My state (WA) is implementing a law which doesn't go far enough. I need to have email advertizing stopped completely, I can't function with the current mass of daily bulk-mail ads.

((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))))
William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website
billb@eskimo.com www.eskimo.com/~billb
EE/programmer/sci-exhibits science projects, tesla, weird science
Seattle, WA 206-781-3320 freenrg-L taoshum-L vortex-L webhead-L

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William, I have deleted your subscription and posted your email address to my 'When pigs fly' list of addresses that can never subscribe again, cross-referenced to your web site address as well. I certainly don't want to bother you.

It's too bad you have such a short fuse. Had you read some of the Gazette, you would have found lots of suggestions for ways to control the amount of spam you receive. But I guess you are just to busy flailing away at the windmills. Because I do strongly support the type of valuable service you are offering to young people, we try to respond immediately when someone needs to be taken off of this list, and we preach that same message constantly to the community.

If you think the laws are bad enough, how about if you had to ask permission before you could send any type of email to an address? Can you imagine the administrative problems? Just read on. Maybe they could also add in a filter to eliminate all advertising from web sites their customers visit. And how about a filter to block their customers from visiting web sites that have ever been visited by anyone that has ever visited a web site containing a link to an adult site? Which is the Monster? The spam or the solution?

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E-Mail Monster
http://www.emailmonster.com

E-Mail Monster is a new program to completely eliminate "SPAM" via a totally different approach. It's user-friendly and works with any Windows mail reader. It works by automating a process in which senders must ask permission to access your mailbox. Complete description on website. It's currently FREE, during a beta release period.

DON'T BE TAKEN IN BY THIS ONE

The following has arrived in my mail box just about every two hours for a week. It tries to convince me that I am about to loose my traffic to underhanded URL raiders.

The flaw is that while the .com domain is the place for most web sites, the .org and .net top level domains are supposedly reserved for non-profit organizations and Internet service companies. Just another example of trying to undermine the Web for a buck.

Besides, I don't need any help in filling out a simple form at Internic.net. Especially not for $49.

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From: service@Get-A-Name.com (Domain Protection Bulletin)
Reply-To: service@Get-A-Name.com (Domain Name Protection)
To: jim@jimworld.com
Subject: Jim, protect your domain(s) from abuse immediately.

Re: Domain name conflicts/ legal disputes are rising.
Protect your internet domain name from abuse/theft:

Dear Jim,

You are listed as the adminstrative contact for at least one internet domain name, so this bulletin will have importance to you.

Did you know that any other company or individual can register the .ORG or .NET equivalent of your domain name, such as jimworld.org or jimworld.net?

Once they own that domain, they may use it however they wish, without your consent.

As the demand for domain names becomes greater, and the available domains decrease by 100,000+ per month, there are more and more conflicts as time goes on.

Legal disputes are rising, costing all involved hardship and unnecessary legal
fees to resolve.

The good news is that you may check, right now, to see if the .ORG or .NET equivalent of your domain(s) is taken, and if not, you may register them for FREE.

Also, you can have the .ORG and/or .NET equivalent of your domain set up so that all mail to those domains comes straight to you, for FREE.

For complete details, please see: <http://Get-A-Name.com>

Also, you may use our service to register any other domain names that you would like to own, whether they be .COM, .NET, and/or .ORG.

Thank you for your time, Jim, and best wishes for success with your business on the internet.

Sincerely,
Alan Thompson
Get-A-Name.com
Domain Registration Services