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I picked up a pretty decent domain drop (name withheld).
The domain is ten years old.
It is decent keyword domain and very generic.
There are no TM issues.
It met all my personal criteria for dropping names.
Here is the situation:
I got an email this morning from someone that sounded pretty stressed.
He claims he was on the road and had no internet access and no notice of expiring. Any of us who are GoDaddy customers know that the previous line is pretty much BS.
The domain was and is registered at Godaddy.
I explained to him that I regularly get mail from despondent people who have given me every imaginable excuse and insist they need the name back. The primary issue here is regarding alleged previous owner, how do I know this to be the truth? Could they be someone who lost the auction?
Anyways, I related that I would consider working with him on this if he could provide proof of being the former owner.
His email was very cordial and included his full name and phone number which, to me, adds credibility to the claim.
He just emailed me back and related that the domain name was primarily used as his and his organization's email address and could provide proof.
Well, it turns out that he is correct
it is legitimate established email address
and he sent me tons of links from google.
And, it turns out -
- it is quite a porno empire!
The domain name was a porn site for ordering sex toys and xxx stuff from 2000 to 2007.
Now the company goes by a different name but still use the domain name as their email address because of it's non-porn specific name.
The domain now is used for email purposes for customers to submit orders. And, I would imagine, for the purposes of not drawing suspicion to prying eyes as to what the email address is for or what is in the package when delivered.
In other words, a very generic and innocent looking domain as well as email address.
The question is,
what would you do?
and why?
The domain is ten years old.
It is decent keyword domain and very generic.
There are no TM issues.
It met all my personal criteria for dropping names.
Here is the situation:
I got an email this morning from someone that sounded pretty stressed.
He claims he was on the road and had no internet access and no notice of expiring. Any of us who are GoDaddy customers know that the previous line is pretty much BS.
The domain was and is registered at Godaddy.
I explained to him that I regularly get mail from despondent people who have given me every imaginable excuse and insist they need the name back. The primary issue here is regarding alleged previous owner, how do I know this to be the truth? Could they be someone who lost the auction?
Anyways, I related that I would consider working with him on this if he could provide proof of being the former owner.
His email was very cordial and included his full name and phone number which, to me, adds credibility to the claim.
He just emailed me back and related that the domain name was primarily used as his and his organization's email address and could provide proof.
Well, it turns out that he is correct
it is legitimate established email address
and he sent me tons of links from google.
And, it turns out -
- it is quite a porno empire!
The domain name was a porn site for ordering sex toys and xxx stuff from 2000 to 2007.
Now the company goes by a different name but still use the domain name as their email address because of it's non-porn specific name.
The domain now is used for email purposes for customers to submit orders. And, I would imagine, for the purposes of not drawing suspicion to prying eyes as to what the email address is for or what is in the package when delivered.
In other words, a very generic and innocent looking domain as well as email address.
The question is,
what would you do?
and why?
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