How Many Millions Does The Big Ten's Domain Name Registration Fee Cost, Anyway?

by RossWB on Feb 13, 2010 8:37 AM CST in Iowa Hawkeyes News

This is what you see if you go to www.bigten.org, the conference's homepage:

Gingers and implied fornication? What a strange new direction for the league.

Whoops. Looks like someone at the Big Ten offices forgot to pay that domain name registration fee this year, despite the millions they're pulling in from fat media rights contracts. Next step for the Big Ten: signing an exclusive content agreement with Compuserve.

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Oh no!

Where will I go to get bland information from the post-1999 era of this conference now?

Oh, right. Wikipedia, ESPN.com, and about a million other websites that have better exhibits of the info I care about.

Still, this is a bit embarrassing for the conference.

I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.

-- Judge Smails

by WaterlooChazz on Feb 13, 2010 8:44 AM CST reply actions

When I still worked

for the State of Oregon, the tourism commission had let its domain name lapse. For a time, visitors to oregontravel.com were taken to a porn site.

by bluearmadillo on Feb 13, 2010 9:11 AM CST reply actions

I'd sure like to see her Oregon Trail!

Hmm… I think it works, as euphemisms go. Strong move by the commission. Bold move.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Feb 13, 2010 10:07 AM CST up reply actions

Gives a new meaning to

“caulk the wagon”

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Feb 13, 2010 10:16 AM CST up reply actions

Just make sure you don't cross the river.

by mikjones24 on Feb 13, 2010 12:19 PM CST up reply actions

As long as her Oregon Trail doesn't give you dysentary.

MORE ZAZZ! I DEMAND MORE ZAZZ!

by Bucketochicken on Feb 13, 2010 10:19 AM CST up reply actions

It's cholera

and it will Kill Johnny somewhere near Chimney Rock.

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Feb 13, 2010 10:21 AM CST up reply actions

Lofty move

/Peter King’d
/KSK’d

by Ill Jukes on Feb 13, 2010 10:54 AM CST up reply actions

I don't know if it remains true

but there are (were) no zoning laws when it came to sex businesses. If you desired you could literally put a club or bookstore across the street from a church or a school or a park.

by bluearmadillo on Feb 13, 2010 12:31 PM CST up reply actions

Whatever happened it was short-lived

since it is now working for me in all its Netscape-era glory.

by Brock Sampson on Feb 13, 2010 9:39 AM CST reply actions

Close shave, Big Ten

by mattbednar on Feb 13, 2010 11:01 AM CST via mobile up reply actions

Close shave Barbasol.

"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid

by HawkOnRails on Feb 13, 2010 1:56 PM CST up reply actions

Wow. Just... Wow.

That’s a blackeye.

by storminspank on Feb 13, 2010 9:54 AM CST reply actions

oops

Still some name squatters out there that think they can get a fat payday out of things like this. Right up to the point that they lawyers call and explain that there is zero chance of them winning the court case and a 99% chance of them having to pay the Big Ten’s legal fees.

In 100 years, we'll all be dead.

by Flakbait on Feb 13, 2010 10:08 AM CST reply actions

There's always

this web address.

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Feb 13, 2010 10:18 AM CST reply actions

And also Pen Island

http://www.penisland.net/

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Feb 13, 2010 10:49 AM CST up reply actions

I'm so relieved

to find writing utensils at the end of that link. Otherwise I was going to have to employ theRapists to help me recover…

Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.

by Kyle McCann't on Feb 13, 2010 10:55 AM CST up reply actions

Subtle brilliance.

“Whether you’re looking for a long and skinny pen, a thick pen, a fountain pen that squirts ink, or even a black pen, we have just the one for you. "

Outstanding.

MORE ZAZZ! I DEMAND MORE ZAZZ!

by Bucketochicken on Feb 13, 2010 11:53 AM CST up reply actions