As a web designer I’m forced to be privy to my client’s private information that, trust me, I’d rather not have to have.It’s sensitive stuff ranging from ftp info and all the way up to master logins for servers running 20 domains and up to PayPal info so that I can set up a shop for them when they’d rather not do it themselves…Yes, Paypal which is akin to having access to their bank accounts.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the trust my clients have in me.
But then I’m a trustworthy person.I worked in retail for almost 6 years handling money daily and never taking so much as a dime.If a store clerk hands me back too much change I will tell them
because I know it might have to come out of their own pocket at the end of the day.
I can’t help it-I was raised to be honest.
There were some filching incidents as a small child that still give me the guilts.
So tonight when I called my dad’s domain name registrant and asked him for the account information so I could get the domain pointed to my dad’s new host and he prickled and said (rather testily) I’m not going to give you access to all 800 of my domains! I was taken aback.Well! How was I to know that he had 800 domains? Why would anyone even want to have 800 domains? A domain name parker,that’s who. Sniff.
Domain name parking is when you perceive that someone might one day want that particular domain name so you buy it in the hope that they will want to buy it from you. I sort of remember my dad’s landlord going on about this way back in the day…how he planned to make a ton of money by parking a massive amount of domain names.
This is a man who has known me since I was a little kid! It’s not like I’m a stranger… but fine.I didn’t know he had control over that many domains so when I asked for that domain’s info I didn’t know it would give me access to all of them.I only asked to do it myself because I want it done yesterday.Now I have wait for him to point the domain to the new nameservers and it pains me.
I’d like to know what exactly he thought I would even do with all of those silly domains? Hijack them for porn spam? As if, Jenny.
I get that sometimes from clients. If they want to apply for a merchant account; I need their social security #’s. the silliest thing though is when a client doesn’t want to give me access to his site. I assure them I’m a professional and have done this numerous times.