GRCity.us – A Question of Domain Selection
I just got back from a vacation in Michigan with my wife and son. My wife grew up in East Grand Rapids, so we spent a couple of days there before heading up to Crystal Mountain for some golf, hiking and boating.
While in East Grand Rapids, I was reading the newspaper and saw an article announcing Grand Rapids new official website. http://www.GRCity.us.
Just my opinion here, but that’s pretty bad. Who picked that? And the people that did the design work, they couldn’t convince the city folks that this was perhaps a less than ideal domain?
This sort of decision process is baffling to me. They clearly spent a significant amount of money on the design. Why did they decide to skimp out on the domain? According to the whois, it looks like they might have worked out a deal on the aftermarket with the original registrant which makes it even more strange. A domain like this usually tells me that they looked for what they thought was the best unregistered domain available.
I’ve spoken with the owner of GrandRapids.com before and I know he’s not interested in selling the domain, but there are still MANY better domains out there between GrandRapids.com and GRCity.us.
