Every so often, i get a note from Domain Registry of America informing me that my domain will expire soon. Recently, the tone has been significantly less urgent and the letter looks a fair bit less like a bill. One can probably thank the American legal system for these breakthroughs. Suffice to say, i don't take advantage of their services, since i pay significantly less than they ask to regularly update my domains.
Still, i wondered what sort of upstanding company this would be. So i took a look on Google maps. The cement wall you're looking at is, indeed the right address. If you switch to the non street view, you'll note that this is a UPS store address, and that the "suite" in choice is probably a 6"x6"x12" mail slot in said UPS store.
But wait! p'raps the Googles are out of date for Buffalo, and said UPS store is no longer at that address. No, it is.
While sending pizza and missionaries is probably not a good idea (since it would only bother the poor UPS guy), it does make me wonder what sort of listing assistance such a place might have. One could imagine a whole host of organizations that could benefit from such a densely packed office suite, say, Necrophiliacs Anonymous, or NAMBLA. Sadly, it's hard to see what other shared "offices" may exist for this "suite" on Yelp or Google, and Yahoo Local doesn't list much else in the category drop-down.
Fortunately, i'm above doing such juvenile and puerile things as registering that "suite" with various online services as the local branch of NAMBLA or Necrophiliacs Anonymous, regardless of how tempting the idea may be, but i do have a delightful default address i plan on using for sites i do not wish to correspond with.
And knowing is half the battle…
