Astounding Domain Issues.

I own AstoundingStories.com AstoundingSF.com AstoundingScienceFiction.com and AstoundingTales.com. They all point to the AstoundingTales.com webzine. Last week, Arnold Bailey contacted me saying that he was interested in AstoundingStories.com. Mr. Bailey seems to be a web hacker and chief cook and bottle washer at Baen Books. He told me that Baen was interested in my domain.

I had indicated that AstoundingStories.com was for sale and eventually they indicated that they were willing to pay a small amount for the domain and the use of the name Astounding.

I replied that AstoundingTales.com was my webzine and that I would continue to use the name Astounding while I continued to publish the zine.

They gave up and went home.

I had hoped that they would settle for the AstoundingStories.com domain. It is too bad that they did not tell me at the start that they wanted all of the domains. It would have made things simpler.

AstoundingTales.com will continue. We have some interesting additions for the December issue. In March, we will have been publishing for two years. At that time, we will think about whether or not to go on to a third year.