The answer is Absale is an English surname. We are not selling abs or anything!

The main problem is finding a web partner is finding someone who is compatible with yourself. A person whose skills make up for your weaknesses or improve on your strengths. Think of it like this, if your strengths are SEO and traffic building, you want to team up with a web designer or web developer to produce a well-rounded website. 

In a recent episode, I was communicating with a guy who wanted to partner. His online appearance was someone who was doing well on the internet and had experience of creating successful websites. After he sent me a contract that looked like it was written by a 10 year old, I started to do a little research on him. It turned out he was basically creating a false identity and was desperate for someone to pay for his dedicated server. The thoughts of partnership ended right there. If you know some one offline, it may be advantageous partnering with them. Or, ideally, if you have the funds available, go for a freelancer. It works out better in the long term.

I'll start at the beginning. It was back in October 2007 when I saw triple.com promoting .com domains for $5.55. To test them out I registered one domain – istio.com. You cannot buy things outright on their website, you need to deposit funds. Now, the first annoyance, they deduct PayPal fees from your amount deposited without mentioning that it will deducted. So, my $5.55 became something like $5.20 and I have to deposit more in order to get this $5.55 domain name. Eventually I found out the fees by going to PayPal and added some extra funds. I now have an unusable 14 cents in my account.

 A couple of days ago I sold the domain on dnforum.com. I seemingly, and according to the account history, pushed the domain to the buyer's account. Done and dusted. Or, so I thought. 

 24 hours later and I receive a PM asking where the domain was!? The buyer had not received it. I asked him to check again and I checked to see if they had placed it back in to my account. No sign of it. The next step was to email support and get to the bottom of it. 48 hours later, no reply. So, I call them and there 24 hours phone support turns out to be an answering machine… Next option. "Live Support". Unfortunately there was no life in the live support.

Triple.com is like a ghost town, nobody around. I'm not the only person complaining either. NamePros search shows numerous similar troubles.

My only suggestion — avoid Triple.com 

“Golf?” Um, possibly.

It’s official (official: in the sense that every 4L.com owner in the World is declaring it), all of the LLLL.com domain names have been taken!

The impact on prices of short brandable names is evident in all the domain forums. LLLL.com wholesale value has doubled seemingly overnight.

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I have mixed emotions seeing guys buy names like rqpz.com (sorry if that’s your domain) and try and to sell it for $100 because it’s an exclusive LLLL.com. That is one ugly domain and no matter if it has 4 letters, you’re not getting 3 figures plus for it. If you’re a parker and not a developer, you have to invest in something that people, resellers and end users, will want. The marketing guys are looking for short, catchy names. Well, strike ebay, sedo and pretty much every pronounceable 4-Letter .com off the list. We’re left with 5. Like, the Jackson 5, brandable, baby!

I searched the internet for “PHP form script” and stumbled across http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-php-form-mailer-script/ which is completely free. This is what is so beautiful about the internet, this guy has put all that effort it to creating something he could sell commercially and he is giving it away for free! Not only that – he is helping users implement changes and much more. Outstanding!

What is so great about this script is the ability to change it to fit your needs. I needed the CAPTCHA to stop the bots from spamming my mailbox. Following his easy instructions I customized the new submit form to fit in with the rest of ABSALE.com. Thankfully, today my mailbox only had about 30 submissions, with about 20% being good quality websites that were accepted in to the directory.