I get quite a bit of email from NameJet on a daily basis, and admittedly, I don’t read everything I receive. Yesterday afternoon, I received an abnormal email announcing a “system interruption” that impacted quite a few auctions that closed while the website was not functioning properly. As a result, these auctions that closed were reopened.

Because I tend to ignore many of these auction start and other emails I receive, I thought I would share it with people who may have overlooked this email today. I believe only bidders whose accounts were impacted received this email. If you have an auction that was impacted, be sure your bid is updated.

Here’s the email I received:

Over the weekend, I was tracking and participating in the NameJet auction for Citronella.com. I ended up winning this domain name for less than $5,000 and I am happy with the purchase. I thought it would be interesting for me to share why I bought Citronella.com.

I live in the suburbs, and the mosquitos can be fairly aggressive here. I mention the suburbs because they seem to bite me much more than when I lived in New York City. Although we don’t have too many mosquito-borne illnesses around here besides infrequent occurrences of West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, mosquitos are a pest I could live without having them bite me.

In order to protect us from the mosquitos, we have two primary options: bug spray or citronella candles. I hate