highly unexpected....on the good side :)

[Biggie]

a couple of weeks ago, i won an expired domain in auction that has local keywords, plus generic market word/words. ie: "bostongrocerystore

looked in the newspaper today and the biz that "used to own it" is still using the url in it's print advertising.

note: the actual businesses' name is NOT the same as the url


what a plug for me!




kinda shows that some people are not up on their game


but the local newspaper still gets paid and hopefully so will i




lesson and point....renew your domains if they have value

 

[Johnn]

It happened the same thing to me last year.

A big local tourist company forgot to renew one of its domain so I spent $7.95 to pick it up and the link is still listed on the main site. The name is also in the DMOZ directory also.
The name is so generic and I never heard from them since.

If you look hard you can find gold every day.

 

[Biggie]

.

If you look hard you can find gold every day.

i wasn't even looking that hard, when i came up on that name

i believe at the time, i was browsing the lists while talking to "YOU" and "WIRED" in the "chatroom" one day.

we tell people to come in the chatroom... but they don't listen!

 

[tonyfloyd]

i wasn't even looking that hard, when i came up on that name

i believe at the time, i was browsing the lists while talking to "YOU" and "WIRED" in the "chatroom" one day.

we tell people to come in the chatroom... but they don't listen!

browsing what lists??...

ones on namejet for ex?

 

[Biggie]

browsing what lists??...

ones on namejet for ex?

namejet or snap, but it wasn't one of those "featured" lists.


i just put in a letter, hit search and scroll the results

and i close my eyes before i touch the keyboard, so i won't know what letter goes in

 

[FuseFX]

You lucky arse! Congrats man, while nothing like this happened to me but I do own the .com versions of a few companies who promote their ccTLDs in print and I never fail to chuckle when I see it.

 

[Giode]

I sold TurboHD.com a few months back to Dish Network. They are spending millions now advertising the Turbo HD service. Guess who forgot to change the nameservers

 

[Biggie]

I sold TurboHD.com a few months back to Dish Network. They are spending millions now advertising the Turbo HD service. Guess who forgot to change the nameservers

now that's a good example too.

great luck for you!

i've forgot a couple of times to set the names servers after registering a domain.
one name i had almost a year before i recognized it.

 

[Jeroen]

I'm learning something new here every day.
Giode, i hope for you that the current owner doesn't read dnf

 

[bobovia]

gawd i hate the internet...sigh

 

[james2002]

Congrat on your nice catch.