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Here is an interesting story for a domain i sold recently for $999.
I had a .org domain and expired an year ago. (It was a crappy registrar and i forgot to renew. they never send me any expiry notice too. Due to very low price for .org, i registered only that domain with them. Normally all my domains are with GD).
I was marketing it without knowing it was expired. I got a buyer for $999 (there were 3 buyers and the top was 999$). After my sale of $999, i got offer for $1500 from one of the another buyer. As it is not ethical, i explained its sold for $999. ( I sold the .com version of this domain for $1500 2 years ago. Now surprised to see .org at same price now. All are end users.)
Then comes the issue. The domain is not in my account. !!! It was in namejet prerelease closing due on 13 oct 2011 8pm et. (the whois expiry shows enom & expiry sep 2012!) I was the only bidder. but they didn't award me the domain. instead they just removed the domain from the pre-release date. I contacted them. They said its their rules blah blah... I'm still not understanding why they mention prerelease date as 13 oct 2011. To shorten the story, It was no use with namejet.
But the main part happen.
Buyer has sent me the payment of $999 by paypal & Paypal automatically withdrawn money to my bank account same day as per RBI regulations!
The domain is not in my account. What to do?
I contacted
1. old registrar
2. enom (enom replied domain with namecheap !)
3. NameCheap
4. Namejet
In the meantime I was adding more funds (to cover paypal fees, exchange loss ) and ready to refund buyer.
After my chasing finally old registrar replied - domain is not with them.
Namecheap said, they can't guarantee. But if i fund my namecheap account with $209.69 they will give a try!! I made that in instant & namecheap really did a quick work and finally i got the domain in my namecheap account.
My goodness. What a big tension & relief.
Now i have asked buyer for his namecheap account and will push the domain.
To me few things got in my mind.
1) Should never use many registrars for few dollars.
2) Must check expiry b4 marketing
3) Never use namejet
What do you peers think on this story?
After pushing the domain to him, i'll reveal the domain name.
Another very very important & amazing note will be added in a day or 2. What is it?
I had a .org domain and expired an year ago. (It was a crappy registrar and i forgot to renew. they never send me any expiry notice too. Due to very low price for .org, i registered only that domain with them. Normally all my domains are with GD).
I was marketing it without knowing it was expired. I got a buyer for $999 (there were 3 buyers and the top was 999$). After my sale of $999, i got offer for $1500 from one of the another buyer. As it is not ethical, i explained its sold for $999. ( I sold the .com version of this domain for $1500 2 years ago. Now surprised to see .org at same price now. All are end users.)
Then comes the issue. The domain is not in my account. !!! It was in namejet prerelease closing due on 13 oct 2011 8pm et. (the whois expiry shows enom & expiry sep 2012!) I was the only bidder. but they didn't award me the domain. instead they just removed the domain from the pre-release date. I contacted them. They said its their rules blah blah... I'm still not understanding why they mention prerelease date as 13 oct 2011. To shorten the story, It was no use with namejet.
But the main part happen.
Buyer has sent me the payment of $999 by paypal & Paypal automatically withdrawn money to my bank account same day as per RBI regulations!
The domain is not in my account. What to do?
I contacted
1. old registrar
2. enom (enom replied domain with namecheap !)
3. NameCheap
4. Namejet
In the meantime I was adding more funds (to cover paypal fees, exchange loss ) and ready to refund buyer.
After my chasing finally old registrar replied - domain is not with them.
Namecheap said, they can't guarantee. But if i fund my namecheap account with $209.69 they will give a try!! I made that in instant & namecheap really did a quick work and finally i got the domain in my namecheap account.
My goodness. What a big tension & relief.
Now i have asked buyer for his namecheap account and will push the domain.
To me few things got in my mind.
1) Should never use many registrars for few dollars.
2) Must check expiry b4 marketing
3) Never use namejet
What do you peers think on this story?
After pushing the domain to him, i'll reveal the domain name.
Another very very important & amazing note will be added in a day or 2. What is it?