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I got this email this morning:
Names removed to protect the stupid.
Seems legit, right? It does until you do some snooping, but first I'll give youy a little back story.
There are services that snatch up domains as they expire and sell them for a fee (usually $60), this is called backordering. The two domains were picked up by the same backorder service and while the .com went to auction and sold for over $100, the .net was ignored and the price dropped, eventually to $15 where I was able to get it.
At first I thought this was the person who picked it up but when I checked the registration information, the domain, allgermanshepherds.com was NOT registered. Guess what I did?
I went to my registrar (GoDaddy) and quickly registered it for $7.15 (a savings of almosat $188!).
IMO - this is very shady, yet nothing illegal. He was hoping for me to say yes, then he's register it and sell it to me for a very quick porofit. Guess what, he was wrong.
The great part of this is that since he did not own it, he has no legal claim to it. I registered it and I have it pointed to a legitemate site, no malicious intent here. He also cannot claim ownership of it since he does not own it nor can he claim that I stole his idea since I owned the .net LONG before he sent me this email. If anything, I could file a complaint against him for malicious intent (registering a domain that is similar to another domain to benefit from it, like registering gogle.com). Nah, I won't do that, but what I might do is switch the domain to private registration and play along with his ruse.
Hi,
I own the .COM version of your domain name allgermanshepherds.net and I want to sell it.
I was wondering if you would be interested in buying this domain for $195 seen as though you own the same domain but in another extension ?
Let me know
Thanks
I own the .COM version of your domain name allgermanshepherds.net and I want to sell it.
I was wondering if you would be interested in buying this domain for $195 seen as though you own the same domain but in another extension ?
Let me know
Thanks
Seems legit, right? It does until you do some snooping, but first I'll give youy a little back story.
There are services that snatch up domains as they expire and sell them for a fee (usually $60), this is called backordering. The two domains were picked up by the same backorder service and while the .com went to auction and sold for over $100, the .net was ignored and the price dropped, eventually to $15 where I was able to get it.
At first I thought this was the person who picked it up but when I checked the registration information, the domain, allgermanshepherds.com was NOT registered. Guess what I did?
I went to my registrar (GoDaddy) and quickly registered it for $7.15 (a savings of almosat $188!).
IMO - this is very shady, yet nothing illegal. He was hoping for me to say yes, then he's register it and sell it to me for a very quick porofit. Guess what, he was wrong.
The great part of this is that since he did not own it, he has no legal claim to it. I registered it and I have it pointed to a legitemate site, no malicious intent here. He also cannot claim ownership of it since he does not own it nor can he claim that I stole his idea since I owned the .net LONG before he sent me this email. If anything, I could file a complaint against him for malicious intent (registering a domain that is similar to another domain to benefit from it, like registering gogle.com). Nah, I won't do that, but what I might do is switch the domain to private registration and play along with his ruse.
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