Note: If you haven’t read my rant on domain squatters, you might want to catch up
Argument reasons FOR me being a domain squatter:
I made money by selling 4 domains I had owned since 2005.
I searched the Internet looking for the candidates I thought best suited for them
I emailed 4 separate businesses with my offer
I spent 3 years building them into a first place ranking in Google
Reasons AGAINST:
They were used for a legitimate business/website
I only made $75 total on the sale of all 4 (this doesn’t really absolve me but it does show that I wasn’t out to price gouge)
They were set to expire in 10 days and they would have then gone back to the open market
Within 3 minutes of my emails going out, I received a response and an offer to purchase them all
Your thoughts? Am I a domain squatter or was this a legitimate business transaction?
Also worth following up on, I contacted the person in previous domain squatting post about acquiring said domain and it is not for sale. I suppose that releases him from the lowly level that he was thought of as a domain squatter but it doesn’t release him from the fact that I’d still rather place blame on him than myself. It’s the American way.
Now go vote.
EDIT: It should be noted that the business in question is no longer doing business. The owner passed away over a year ago and I decided against running them out for sale right after the fact. It should also be noted that I am thankful that both Texas and Virginia decided they needed towns named Roanoke. Anyone doing business outside of a town of the same name wouldn’t have had much use for them.
While he didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, LeBron helped his Cleveland Cavaliers team run the Mavericks record to 1-2 tonight. Fortunately for me, Bill/Heath were kind enough to let me tag along to watch the Mavs play some pretty bad basketball. It’s gonna be a long season.
Thanks also to my sister-in-law for taking C duties for a couple hours this evening so I could make the trip. I gave Dirk your phone number.
Just a couple shots from my very underwhelming camera phone. I’m pretty positive at this point that I could draw a better picture than what it takes.
I’d also like to take a moment to share my theory on grown men wearing sports jerseys. They shouldn’t. Theory over. Need proof?
Previous to tonight, I’d never seen a hairy jersey. I’m headed now to wash my eyes out with Lava soap.
In my ever increasing attempt to look as vain as possible to my readers, I wanted to point out that for the first time ever, I have arrived at the number one spot in a Google search for my name.
Myself and some dot-comrades were Jellying today and got on the subjects of online presences and so we all did what any nerd does, we proved our manliness through Google rankings.
I want to thank the academy for this award, Jesus and the Christian-emo rocker from Frisco for all of their help. No thanks to my .com squatter and Myspace, for with their assistance this could have all been obtained at an earlier date.
I’ll be honest, this is the first TED Talks I have watched completely. Most of them are far too lengthy for my adult A.D.D. and usually not all that interesting.
