I received and email on the 22nd…two days ago, that the .com version of a domain which I own the .org and .net of was going to be up for sale soon and they were curious if I was interested in buying it. Cool! I thought…so I clicked the link and filled out their form to be notified when it went up for sale. Got a response; they wanted $997 USD for it. Almost fell out of my chair from laughing so hard.
Next email, yesterday, the 23rd, the domain is going up for sale tomorrow…at $997, so I am still watching but not really interested in buying, that is just too much money. Today I got an email saying that it was for sale for a lower price… $427 minimum offer. Well, that still sucks, so I put down $20 and hit submit anyways.
Few hours later another email…yay! I must be famous. They would sell me the domain, with one year registration for $50 USD. Done, bought, sold, MINE! >< After I bought it I went and looked at the whois information, just out of curiosity and guess what I found. They had bought the domain yesterday, the 23rd.
How can a company offer to sell something that they do not legally own yet? Is there some kind of a law against this? Does not really matter now, the domain is mine mine mine; for 20% of the original cost they wanted. Sometime in the next week or so I will have to finish up the theme, get the majority of the code done in the next few months and see if I can have it done before the next NFL Football season starts in the fall of 2009.
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