Dumbest Domainer?

[Melly]

Okay I seriously should get the dumbest domainer award of the century. I wasn't going to share this but I have gotten over the initial embarrassment. Now it's basically just stupidity that I feel.

I decided that I was going to be active and try to find an enduser for a lll.net domain that I sold awhile back.

Anyways I looked around for awhile and found that The NewYorker owned most of the names similar to what I had.

I spent 4 hours on the phone trying to find someone who might be interested in purchasing it for them. I finally get ahold of the person that controls most of their domains and he seemed very interested. He said he would talk to his client and email me in a couple of days if they were interested.

Not even an hour later they had not only emailed me back but put in an offer.

Now I had planned on selling this name for maybe $700 - $800, and I get an offer for $2000. I decided to give it a day to answer so I didn't sound so eager (which of course I was). I figured they really wanted the domain so I had a bit of leverage for asking for a higher price so I responded saying that things were negotiable but I was looking for mid to higher xxxx for it.

They countered with $4500 which was fine with me. I email them back to say I accept and he wanted me to look over an agreement the next day.

Guess what? I did not own the domain that I was trying to sell. I had overlooked one of the letters in my own domain,

I was trying to sell XNX when the domain was actually XMX. (not the real doamins just using it for example)

I had to email this guy back and tell him not to make payment that I had sent the wrong domain.

Can you imagine the embarrassment? It's horrible!

Thought someone got a good laugh out of this.:lol:

 

[stewie]

Should have gone forward with the deal, and knocked off $20 bucks...ound:

seriously thats too bad, you should have contacted the owner and asked them if they wanted you to broker a sale for them.

 

[copper]

You knew it was too good to be true

 

[ecomindia]

oops!

 

[petrosc]

contact the real owner, tell him that you know a company that is ready to pay $4500 for the name and tell him to let you broker the domain for 30% of the profit. His profit would be $3k and he will 100% be ok with that. And you will make 2x of what you initially wanted to sell the name for, without even selling the name
Win - Win

 

[BidNo]

These things seem to happen more when you're holding your eyes open with toothpicks (and I should know...).

Thanks for sharing.

 

[james2002]

Hope he would also be interested in your domain name.

 

[south]

Ouch!

 

[JuniperPark]

I've dropped a 2 word domain realizing it was spelled wrong. Months later I see a great domain on the list and buy it -- then realize I just re-bought the domain I dropped... and it's STILL not the correct spelling.

Several years ago I used to bid on domains at auction at Namewinner.com. Some poor guy from Hong Kong kept bidding on single word English domains that were single word typos. I felt bad for the guy figuring he doesn't know English well, and didn't know he was wasting money on mistakes. His name was Yun Ye. He sold his "mistakes" a couple of years later for $163 million, and that was just half of his portfolio.

Back in the early 90's I ran a matchmaking BBS, and there had been a big story about me in the LA Times. I got a call from a guy trying to start a website, and wanted me to advertise his site on mine for FREE. I said "no thanks" and pretty much just hung up on the freeloader. The site he was starting was Match.com. He also had another site, Sex.com.

 

[Focus]

cool story...we have ALL done something like this before, sh*t happens! :lol:

 

[tetrapak]

I was negotiating for a week about a domain with an end-user, just to find out that I've let it drop a year before, and a Pakistani is the new owner.

 

[myst woman]

I contacted a high school friend that his multi consonant name was dropping my face was red when he came back with the correct spelling.

if you stare at the drop lists long enough........

 

[democrat]

I would do what they say above can't hurt, right?

 

[Luke]

Lol

 

[copper]

I registered cruise related domain and realized it's misspell bit too late.
However, this mistaked domain earn me about $10/mth parked

 

[FormerDnForumer]

When you say The New Yorker, you mean Conde Nast?

 

[A D]

I have definitely regged my share of mis-spellings all by accident because I type with two fingers.

-=DCG=-

 

[PRED]

lol
thanks for sharing
hey you still have a really nice domain. i actually think urs is better
perfect for mobile p*rn

actually the dumbest domainer is that guy that paid 80k or some nuts amount for toyota.asia, then had took off him few weeks later

actually, theres loads of stories like that

or the guy who paid most ever for a .us domain, 35k or whatever it was for videos, except he was european and had took off him, and the guy before him had the same fate :worried:

drophouses cashing in both times

and the story goes on............. :smilewinkgrin:

hey, you lost nothing, brushed up negotiating skills, and yes, you could broker other one for the guy

 

[Melly]

formerdn I don't remember who I spoke to but I can look in the emails from him if you like to see what his name was. But in new yorker i meant the paper.

 

[copper]

I have definitely regged my share of mis-spellings all by accident because I type with two fingers.

-=DCG=-

Adam is two fingers typist?