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950 WROC's Future Website URL...

DToTheJ said:
Currently, sportsradioespn950.com takes you to an "itm2057.com" page that informs of changes within "24 to 48 hours"...
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That's a DNS change announcement hosted generically by their hosting company. It's not a message from WROC, and the changes refer to the length of time it takes for most DNS change entries to occur to direct people to the appropriate location.

It's a lousy domain name choice too. Way too long and too complicated.
 
I think any possibilities for a shorter URL (espn950, 950espn, sportsradio950 et al) have been registered.
 
Sportsradio950.com belongs to KJR Seattle and takes you to their site.

950espn.com and espn950.net belong to WPEN in Philadelphia and take you to their site.

I'm surprised they didn't try espn950.com, which is apparently unclaimed at the moment, although if you do a Whois search it shows "pending deletion" and a registration address out west, so maybe it's an expired reservation for which the old registrant still has a grace period to re-activate it (usually about 30 days from the time a registration lapses).
 
Your chances of grabbing an expiring domain name are virtually nil. There are companies out there that do nothing but run automated software to grab expired domains the moment they become available for registration and put advertising all over them in hopes of cashing in on people looking for the original station site. When a domain name is registered, it's usually gone for good even if it expires, unless you pay extortion pricing to the domain squatter to transfer it. For a media domain, that's thousands and thousands of dollars minimum.

As long as the standard .com domain names cost less than $10 a year to register, domain squatting is reality.
 
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