Dallas Cowboys just blew millions!

[Theo]

But not a penny on a .com!

 

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I'm assuming the bus is for the owners, wont be able to fit a team on there. I love what the owners have done with the name, its one thing having it parked, its another thing to have it directed to a demographic that would make most hard core football fan blush at the site.

 

[Theo]

Isn't it sick? Money out the window.

 

[draggar]

In the domain community, they are notorious for the epic fail to acquire the domain name,Cowboys.com, at the then auctioned price of $275,000.

You got your number wrong, here, I'll fix it for you.:lol:

In the domain community, they are notorious for the epic fail to acquire the domain name,Cowboys.com, at the then auctioned price of $275

I'm assuming the bus is for the owners, wont be able to fit a team on there. I love what the owners have done with the name, its one thing having it parked, its another thing to have it directed to a demographic that would make most hard core football fan blush at the site.

Yet the safest from a WIPO.

 

[Raider]

Another case of Domainers falling to an even lower LOW...

We couldn't sell the domain in 5 years to the Cowboys organization so lets develop into something they real hate so they'll have to buy it... Nice.

I don't know if INTENT could be considered in a WIPO filing, but if it could be and these investors lose their investment, it's Jerry Jones who will have the last laugh, At all of us.

 

[Theo]

Another case of Domainers falling to an even lower LOW...

We couldn't sell the domain in 5 years to the Cowboys organization so lets develop into something they real hate so they'll have to buy it... Nice.

I don't know if INTENT could be considered in a WIPO filing, but if it could be and these investors lose their investment, it's Jerry Jones who will have the last laugh, At all of us.

I think it was a plan well-thought. It was Jerry Jones who 'faked left, faked right' to begin with. Anyone believing that $275,000 was in fact $275 apparently has some ethical issues.

 

[Raider]

I think it was a plan well-thought. It was Jerry Jones who 'faked left, faked right' to begin with. Anyone believing that $275,000 was in fact $275 apparently has some ethical issues.

Remove yourself from a being domainer for a minute, let's say your in the Greek Olive business and the name of your business is Theos Olives, Somebody approaches you and offers to sell you Theos.com at a high price, you refuse and say to yourself "My business can get along just fine with TheosOlives.com, but now you have a group of domainers trashing you for not buying it, and worst yet the owners of Theos.com turn it into a Gay web site as a means of persuading you to buy it, would that sit well with you?

I agree the Cowboys organization were idiots for getting the price wrong, and your right that it was unethical of them backing out of the bid they placed, but as far as the Cowboys NOT wanting to buy it, who are we to say they should buy? Were NOT a partner in Jerry's money, it's HIS money and not ours..

I have no doubt these investors bought the name with ONE potential buyer in mind, a buyer who has deep pockets, they probably thought it would sell in less than 1 year and here we are 5 years later and no movement... Investors are growing nervous, so as an act of desperation they resort to using coercion to try and sell it, No matter how you cut it , it's a repulsive act...

It's crap like this that make people say; "Domainers are scumbags" a charge that's hard to defend because theirs an element of truth to it.

 

[katherine]

Isn't it what Rick did with saveme.com ?

 

[Theo]

Raider, you think too much. The difference is, I didn't bid on 'Theos.com' - had I done it, I would have honored my bids. See, the Dallas Cowboys lawyers thought they could walk away from the auction where they voluntarily bid $275,000 - not $275 - by claiming the three trailing zeros are past a decimal point. Nobody forced them to bid in the first place.

The rest is fluff. They can do whatever they want with Cowboys.com, if gay personals works, so be it. It's not DallasCowboys.com, it's Cowboys.com. And there is a GayCowboys.com for that matter, as much as CowboysAndAliens.com

Incidentally, the $30k that each investor put down for the domain is peanuts for these guys. Not everyone leads a flashy lifestyle, but at least one I know of drives a Lamborghini.