For Sale What do you do when you see your domain name in an advertisement?

[msn]

So I am looking in the Yellow Pages and there is an ad for a company with a web site, but the URL is for a domain we have held for over five years now.

How can people spend money on advertising and not pay attention to things like that?

 

[Poker]

Just be glad they do

 

[Tia Wood]

What do you do? You keep your mouth shut.

LOL. Or you could be nice and call them.

Either one.

 

[katherine]

You get ready to handle customer complaints

 

[JonathanR]

Ummm, sell it to them? They have probably already spent thousands on the ad, so you have them in a great position. And if the domain makes sense for them (I'm assuming it does, LOL), then it works out good for them in the end as well.

 

[A D]

So I am looking in the Yellow Pages and there is an ad for a company with a web site, but the URL is for a domain we have held for over five years now.

Very lucky you ever found the ad.

-=DCG=-

 

[Biggie]

So I am looking in the Yellow Pages and there is an ad for a company with a web site, but the URL is for a domain we have held for over five years now.

How can people spend money on advertising and not pay attention to things like that?

Hi

the same happened to me


i caught a domain on namejet a couple of years ago

it was a "cityfleamarket.com" domain

after a couple of weeks of owning it, i saw an ad in the sunday paper for chicago flea market

the url in the ad, was the same as my domain



now the only glitch to this story was...


a few months later, the hosting company started sending me invoices

i ignored them at first, but they keep coming


so i called them and left a message


and haven't received an invoice since

BTW: i did get traffic from that ad

 

[theinvestor]

I had a similar thing happen as well... except the company accidentally dropped the domain and they were trying to get the domain back.

 

[hugegrowth]

a real estate company used my 'city'homes.ca domain in a yearly recreation guide by accident (they own the .com version).
got some traffic from it, but it wasn't a big city.