Welcome, and thanks for your comment. Yes, $60,000 for a domain name is out there, and the .net vs. .com debate continues on.

I agree with you on naming—online or off. I’ve talked a lot about naming here—A great name is the most important ad you’ll ever write. It’s worth taking plenty of time with it.

Regards,

Kelly

I think that 60k for any website is ridiculous! I’m not sure I agree fully with the .net theory though. As Amy stated earlier the .net idea is not something that people usually relate to right away with cutting edge websites.

I would try to stick with a company name that no one will forget. Something that really catches the eye. It could even be something mysterious to get people interested. Something like ?.com would be interesting to check out. If I came upon that name on a poster or in a forum, I would visit the site just to satisfy my curiosity!

I sent that email. I hope he’ll have a chance to read through and tell us it’s all FeedBurner’s fault, or whatever we need to know. He’s no hamster, that’s for sure.

I don’t know. The most obvious possibility to me was that CommentLuv was having problems recognizing pathways, either to the host blog’s comment section or from the commentator’s list of blog posts.

But hey, when it comes to coding I’m like a hamster trying to explain why the wheel doesn’t roll away…

~Graham

1. Extracted;
2. Never touched;
3. My hosting account’s FTP server;
4. No.

Let’s remember that I am having this problem on other sites (MWP and Just Creative Design, one or two others), and that what first made me realize it wasn’t just a fluke was that I hear a third person complaining about it, on another site altogether, which is where I learned about load times and all that. Thus, in spite of just having said all that *with no coffee,* I don’t think my install here could possibly be the issue.

5. My FB account is not in all caps.

Could the size of a site be the issue? Now that I think of it, maybe the sites I don’t have trouble on are all younger (i.e. fewer posts in the larder). Not quite sure on that.

The re-install I’m scared of. I’ll probably move to the newest WP at the same time to get all the ick out of the way at once.

Can I have some coffee now? LOL at waking up to this techy stuff.

I’m going to write Andy and ask if he can take a look at these comments. Maybe he’ll have an idea.

Later,

Kelly

I’ve noticed on your site too that some people (like Brett) have their links displayed all the time, and some (like me) almost never. So there might be problems on both side of the fence. For example I used capitals in my FeedBurner — I’ve been wondering if that’s part of the problem…

Perhaps this close to an upgraded version, you might want to just wait to upgrade rather than go through all this. But if you are so inclined, a fresh install might help (make sure to extract your files, and if possible, that the wp-content folder is where it is meant to be…)

~Graham

Yes, I’m just enjoying the discussion today. When we went around the table on this, we just had to say there are good and bad points to each decision, let’s make one. (Well, except buying the name she originally wanted. Only bad points to that!)

So she went with the mouthful. Like I said, it is her business name, so maybe it will actually be easier for folks to remember than the short version would have been.

Graham,

Darren says, lots. It used to keep him up at night (he almost bought it for some ridiculous price about a year ago, I believe), and then he became a zillionaire. Now he sleeps like a baby, lol.

I want to suspect FeedBurner, especially because it used to work so nicely up until about a month or maybe two months ago, but then why does it work so much better on some sites than others?

I have no idea, of course, just frustrated like you.

I don’t know nearly enough about coding to guess what is going on. But I do have a funny feeling that extending the search time from 3 to 5 seconds won’t solve the problem… I suspect it has something to do with feed syntax, etc. — the same reason people drop from 3,200 subscribers to 800 overnight. I think there is an inherent problem with the FeedBurner code (upon which CommentLuv depends) that is the root of the CommentLuv problem too. In other words, CommentLuv is flawed because FeedBurner is flawed.

Again, I’m not a coding expert, but that’s my thought for what it’s worth. I do hope I’m wrong though!

~Graham

My main point is “ease of use” for the potential clients/visitors. Most people simply assume .com, and it’s much easier to remember. If they are going to enter your domain into the address bar, they will more likely get it right if they don’t have to decide between .net, .org, .whatever…

Problogger.net might be fine because 99% of people find blogs through links, then bookmark them or grab the RSS feed, so rarely would they be entering the name directly into the address bar anyway. But I wonder how many times someone stumbled upon problogger.com (so to speak) looking for Darren’s blog. Probably more than vice versa…

~Graham

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