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Old 11-22-2011, 01:23 PM   #1
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:mad Fucking domain squatters!

I had a few domains that expired, one which I must of done by accident. Called GoDaddy and they said it wasn't renewed. Anyway, now some squatter owns it. I emailed him to sell it and he asked for an offer. I made something reasonable but now its days to get a response to get moving on the sale.

I'm paying 20x more for this domain, which is two words that really don't make any sense. Only contact I have is some gmail addy and some bogus number in the UK. Any other ideas on getting this guy to sell it?
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Old 11-22-2011, 01:29 PM   #2
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thats painful. I think its pretty pathetic that godaddy charges so much if it goes 30 days after it expires. Is your domain up for auction? But you usually have at least 60 days after it expires before someone can grab it.
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Old 11-22-2011, 01:32 PM   #3
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that sucks, happened to me on Godaddy before as well.
I have all my domains on auto renew now, just in case that happens again.
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thats painful. I think its pretty pathetic that godaddy charges so much if it goes 30 days after it expires. Is your domain up for auction? But you usually have at least 60 days after it expires before someone can grab it.
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that sucks, happened to me on Godaddy before as well.
I have all my domains on auto renew now, just in case that happens again.
I didn't even know until I went in and found it expired over a year ago. I have ones that I sent to not renew since I didn't need them anymore, but I had two variations of the name on this so I'm a tard for not making sure.

Just so frustrating dealing with these idiots.
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Losing a domain is the worst feeling in the world =((
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Old 11-22-2011, 02:02 PM   #6
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One of the reasons why i don't use them. We all make mistakes.

100's (if not thousands of domains) spread into various registrars.
Shit happens

What's worst is to let go a domain that you think ain't really worth it to find out 13 years later, it's now worth 1 000 000$ (insert donkey pic here)
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How come you don't have auto renew on all your domains?
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Losing a domain is the worst feeling in the world =((
Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
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Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
Several times I've been down to the last confirmation click before realizing I was about to do just that.
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Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
I did that once.. after that I damn sure make sure I use a spellchecker.
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Old 11-22-2011, 04:05 PM   #11
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If your domain expires and gets squated by a registrar, just don't do anything because after one or two years they will cancel it and it will become available for registration again unless it's something really popular. By contacting them and indicating you want the domain back you only encourage them to fuck with you. Let them think you're not interested... nobody else is interested either probably.
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The worst is checking availability, seeing it available, saying to yourself "I'll reg that later" only to come back 2 weeks later and it's gone.

Fortunately the guy was reasonable and sold it for less that it was worth.
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thats painful. I think its pretty pathetic that godaddy charges so much if it goes 30 days after it expires. Is your domain up for auction? But you usually have at least 60 days after it expires before someone can grab it.
It is not godaddys fault that he let it expire, and waited so long afterwards to get it back. You are lucky they dont put it up for sale or auction it off the same minute it expires. An expiration date is an expiration date. They are doing you the favor by holding it off just incase. I lost a decent domain recently that I have a custom design for and got me sales. Is it godaddys fault that I forgot about it. Its my fault. And I know godaddy email 5000 times before your domain expires to warn you. I have even got phone calls from them letting me know that my domains are expiring. They did there part. You have to do yours.

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It is not godaddys fault that he let it expire, and waited so long afterwards to get it back. You are lucky they dont put it up for sale or auction it off the same minute it expires. An expiration date is an expiration date. They are doing you the favor by holding it off just incase. I lost a decent domain recently that I have a custom design for and got me sales. Is it godaddys fault that I forgot about it. Its my fault. And I know godaddy email 5000 times before your domain expires to warn you. I have even got phone calls from them letting me know that my domains are expiring. They did there part. You have to do yours.
Exactly. Agree 100%
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It is not godaddys fault that he let it expire, and waited so long afterwards to get it back. You are lucky they dont put it up for sale or auction it off the same minute it expires. An expiration date is an expiration date. They are doing you the favor by holding it off just incase. I lost a decent domain recently that I have a custom design for and got me sales. Is it godaddys fault that I forgot about it. Its my fault. And I know godaddy email 5000 times before your domain expires to warn you. I have even got phone calls from them letting me know that my domains are expiring. They did there part. You have to do yours.
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I have lost a domain like this before, after the squatter refunded my offer, I did not contact him any more. I use backorder feature of my registrar to stalk the domain, two years later I got it back for a song
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I wouldent even bother trying to buy it back I would just use another domain name and use all the keywords I could associated for the domain name that you let drop
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Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
Yeah that sucks, but at least all you lose is a reg fee.
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Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
i did that once. emailed godaddy and they cancelled the domain and refunded me.
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I let recently some domains to expire,and few days after it expired i got "offer" with question what is my budget to buy domain which i just let to expire.Fucking unbelievable,and would be even more unbelievable if domain actually meant something to me.But what is strange,domain name was randomly generated characters so why they grabbed it's beyond me.(except extortion maybe)
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Tell me about it! ` I let a PR3 domain expire over the summer because I was to busy getting loaded and laid. Some fucking mole from India has my .com
Dickface has it parked with 4mil alexa.
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I let a domain go that I later regretted so I tried to buy it back from the squatter who registered it. The idiot wanted $2500. I offered him $100, then went up to $250 and he told me I needed to give up and buy a domain that "I can afford."

The guy had the domain pointing at a generic landing page for 3 years. The domain had no traffic as it was never a live site. He let it expire this year and I picked it up for about $8.

I had to email him after I got the domain and point out that he could have made $250 off the domain a few years ago and wouldn't have had to pay to renew the domain twice. I also told him that his business model was pants-on-head retarded. If you ever have the opportunity to get 1000% profit, you take it. He just replied "fuck you don't email me again."
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I let a domain go that I later regretted so I tried to buy it back from the squatter who registered it. The idiot wanted $2500. I offered him $100, then went up to $250 and he told me I needed to give up and buy a domain that "I can afford."

The guy had the domain pointing at a generic landing page for 3 years. The domain had no traffic as it was never a live site. He let it expire this year and I picked it up for about $8.

I had to email him after I got the domain and point out that he could have made $250 off the domain a few years ago and wouldn't have had to pay to renew the domain twice. I also told him that his business model was pants-on-head retarded. If you ever have the opportunity to get 1000% profit, you take it. He just replied "fuck you don't email me again."
that's funny

I picked up a domain at auction a few years back for $70, and a week later the guy emailed me offering $300 for it. I almost sold it but I decided to hold on to it.

A few weeks later I put up a site similar to his with new content and added Adsense.

That site now makes 2-3k a month. Site requires no work, thing is on autopilot. I've literally made over $70,000 off that $70 domain.

I'm so glad I didn't sell it for $300!

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Nah... grabbing an awesome domain, one that you just cant believe was available to begin with, registering it, and already planning your retirement because of how awesome it is. And then realizing that you misspelled it to begin with, is the worst feeling in the world.
The reason i don't buy names when I'm drinking :X
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I've noticed on more than 1 occasion that domains I've sold for $X,XXX weren't renewed and dropped.

The bottom line is if a domain is important to your business, renew it for multiple years.
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I've noticed on more than 1 occasion that domains I've sold for $X,XXX weren't renewed and dropped.

The bottom line is if a domain is important to your business, renew it for multiple years.
Yep. If you have a domain that makes you money, that you let get into a month of expiration even, you just don't your business serious.
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The bottom line is if a domain is important to your business, renew it for multiple years.
I've got domains registered until 2015 and 2020 because they're important


on a different note, I have a site up on a .net. Would have loved the .com but it was registered at the time. I received an email from a wannabe domainer offering the .com for $70. Pulled the whois and it wasn't registered. Grabbed it for 8 bucks and emailed the guy with a "hey, thanks!" email
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I had a few domains that expired, one which I must of done by accident. Called GoDaddy and they said it wasn't renewed. Anyway, now some squatter owns it. I emailed him to sell it and he asked for an offer. I made something reasonable but now its days to get a response to get moving on the sale.
OMG! Tell me about me! Apparently, your initial offer was not reasonable.

The funny thing is this: If you don't make a reasobale offer, it will expire AGAIN - and you'll have to suffer through this whole rigamarole over and over.

I didn't grab your domain. I just wanted to type rigamarole...

Just shoulda paid for them before they expired. A stupid thing to say, I know, but it usually works.

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I've got domains registered until 2015 and 2020 because they're important


on a different note, I have a site up on a .net. Would have loved the .com but it was registered at the time. I received an email from a wannabe domainer offering the .com for $70. Pulled the whois and it wasn't registered. Grabbed it for 8 bucks and emailed the guy with a "hey, thanks!" email
I get that same email from different spammers regarding the .com that I either own the .net or .org telling me it is going to become available and they can obtain it for me. Most recently I registered AsianLiveWebcams this way.

I lost Handballs .org with Godaddy by forgetting to renew it and it was picked up by someone else.

I lost HandballStore .com by trying to save $25 a long time ago with Network Solutions, I said I will let it expire, and then register it with Godaddy. But it was picked up by someone else.

I wanted HandballNation .com for a social Network and offered the guy $250 he refused (I went with HandballSpace instead), a couple years later I had searched it and it was available. So I picked it up.
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I get that same email from different spammers regarding the .com that I either own the .net or .org telling me it is going to become available and they can obtain it for me. Most recently I registered AsianLiveWebcams this way.

I lost Handballs .org with Godaddy by forgetting to renew it and it was picked up by someone else.

I lost HandballStore .com by trying to save $25 a long time ago with Network Solutions, I said I will let it expire, and then register it with Godaddy. But it was picked up by someone else.

I wanted HandballNation .com for a social Network and offered the guy $250 he refused (I went with HandballSpace instead), a couple years later I had searched it and it was available. So I picked it up.
Just curious, are you a serious handball player? Do you ever play in Coney Island?
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One of my domains expired, and I bought it back for $1200. Ouch!

And then the worst part, it isn't making any money at all.

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Just curious, are you a serious handball player? Do you ever play in Coney Island?
Yeah very serious, I have played at Coney Island but it is usually too crowded so you need to wait too long to get on the courts. Now if I go there it is usually to check out a Handball tournament and take photos. I do know all the top players who play at Coney. The tournament prize might only be $300 but the players might have several thousand dollars in side bets.

I promoted one-wall Handball hardcore from 2002-2009 through my websites for free, but once I started promoting Adult stuff and starting making money...I needed to focus on the money. I still play Handball and hangout at the courts almost everyday from April - Sept. and also go indoors in the winter. My home park is Bailey Park, West 234th Street in the Bronx off the 1 train. Hanging out at the park is like a Cheers episode.

The sport has a lot of negatives being a street game, so sponsorship is hard to come by. Youtube and facebook has helped a lot, but it will be a while before it breaks mainstream. I have a ton of concepts and domains so hopefully in the future I will get back into promoting. But since I am having my first kid in January I think I might be to busy.
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Lost THE most important domain to me once. One of the first, if not the first domain I owned, for a term I came up with years ago....don't know how I can stress the importance lol. Anyway I lost it and someone picked it up, put some ass 1 page site on it, and wouldn't sell. Site never changed, as I watched it for about 5 - 6 years. I had it on backorder and one day i saw it in my godaddy account. That was a great day.
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I let a domain go that I later regretted so I tried to buy it back from the squatter who registered it. The idiot wanted $2500. I offered him $100, then went up to $250 and he told me I needed to give up and buy a domain that "I can afford."

The guy had the domain pointing at a generic landing page for 3 years. The domain had no traffic as it was never a live site. He let it expire this year and I picked it up for about $8.

I had to email him after I got the domain and point out that he could have made $250 off the domain a few years ago and wouldn't have had to pay to renew the domain twice. I also told him that his business model was pants-on-head retarded. If you ever have the opportunity to get 1000% profit, you take it. He just replied "fuck you don't email me again."
Ha ha nice one. I would continue to fuck with a guy like that by sending him a sweet offer for the domain from another email so he can think he lost out on even more.
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I'm thinking I should make a list of tasks to do at the start of each and every month...

A quick check of domains that are expiring within the next few months will be one of those tasks...
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Yeah very serious, I have played at Coney Island but it is usually too crowded so you need to wait too long to get on the courts. Now if I go there it is usually to check out a Handball tournament and take photos. I do know all the top players who play at Coney. The tournament prize might only be $300 but the players might have several thousand dollars in side bets.

I promoted one-wall Handball hardcore from 2002-2009 through my websites for free, but once I started promoting Adult stuff and starting making money...I needed to focus on the money. I still play Handball and hangout at the courts almost everyday from April - Sept. and also go indoors in the winter. My home park is Bailey Park, West 234th Street in the Bronx off the 1 train. Hanging out at the park is like a Cheers episode.

The sport has a lot of negatives being a street game, so sponsorship is hard to come by. Youtube and facebook has helped a lot, but it will be a while before it breaks mainstream. I have a ton of concepts and domains so hopefully in the future I will get back into promoting. But since I am having my first kid in January I think I might be to busy.
I know a couple of people who play over there. I live about 2 blocks away. I used to play a lot when I was younger. Haven't played in quite some time. Yea. The dudes I know who play over there play all day for money.
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Old 11-23-2011, 11:02 PM   #37
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Ha ha nice one. I would continue to fuck with a guy like that by sending him a sweet offer for the domain from another email so he can think he lost out on even more.
that's cool move hope it works.
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Old 11-23-2011, 11:05 PM   #38
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Old 11-26-2011, 02:55 PM   #39
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I know a couple of people who play over there. I live about 2 blocks away. I used to play a lot when I was younger. Haven't played in quite some time. Yea. The dudes I know who play over there play all day for money.
I heard the courts over there were packed today, Handball is super addictive since you use your whole body, and smacking and punching the ball relieves a lot of stress.
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Yep. If you have a domain that makes you money, that you let get into a month of expiration even, you just don't your business serious.
I actually do this on purpose just because I renew with paypal and I have 2 banks and 3 cards in my account so the possibility of all 5 payment methods failing is slim to none. Funny to watch the traffic increase as they get closer to expiration as they are being stalked. Keep in mind though I spend hundreds of dollars every month on renewals so not a good practice to fall into unless you got your expiration dates, registrars databased and tracked like a mofo like I do.

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