wtf, are all domainers absent-minded some times, or just some of us all the time?

[HomerJ]

I'm not sure but I may be losing it in my not so old age. For the second time I realized that I have been advertising a domain that is not mine. I finally figured out why I have not been able to get statutory.info indexed. I don't own it! I checked my account today and it says statutorylaw.info.

I know I have offered this name to many of you looking for .info. perhaps no one bothered to check that the domain resolves to a website and not a parked page (hell, i never did)

I hope that no one mistakenly thought I was trying to sell a domain that was not mine under false pretense. but hey if there's something hanging off my nose and i don't know about it I would hope you'd at least point it out to me so i can wipe it off!!

anyone care to commiserate and tell about something absent-minded you've done with domains or domaining?

 

[draggar]

I made a site, several pages all based on the domain (a general keyword.org).

Spent hours on it, got it all up and running, uploaded it and thought it was set.

A week later I check, domain won't resolve, I get my hosts' 404 error. Huh.

Check FTP - it's all there.

A few hours later I realized I uploaded it to the wrong folder so I had this great site for domain.org but to get there you had to go to completely-unrelated-domain.info...

 

[DN BROKER]

I'm not sure but I may be losing it in my not so old age. For the second time I realized that I have been advertising a domain that is not mine. I finally figured out why I have not been able to get statutory.info indexed. I don't own it! I checked my account today and it says statutorylaw.info.

I know I have offered this name to many of you looking for .info. perhaps no one bothered to check that the domain resolves to a website and not a parked page (hell, i never did)

I hope that no one mistakenly thought I was trying to sell a domain that was not mine under false pretense. but hey if there's something hanging off my nose and i don't know about it I would hope you'd at least point it out to me so i can wipe it off!!

anyone care to commiserate and tell about something absent-minded you've done with domains or domaining?

thats funny... how could you not know what you own.

 

[HomerJ]

thats funny... how could you not know what you own.

i dont know, let me check that with my administrative secretary and i'll get back to you ... haha, no wait, that would be me.

actually its likely due to the fact that when i first started i was using notepad to keep tabs on everything. I probably regged a bunch at 4 in the morning and got one mixed up .. i am since migrating over to another platform

 

[Gerry]

I've been building a website fiddles.mobi.

Great site!

Couldn't figure out why the site wasn't up after I set the servers.

Guess what?

Don't own it!

I have Fiddled.mobi

Had to redo the logo.

Oh, well.

Oops. Whatcha gonna do.

 

[jdk]

I once tried to sell a LLN.com and three times in the same thread the owner kept saying he owned it. I thought he was screwing with me until I realized I didn't own it. Oops

Ed - If I tell you a few domains and convince you that you own them, will you try and get them listed in search engines

 

[HomerJ]

Ed - If I tell you a few domains and convince you that you own them, will you try and get them listed in search engines

how many is a few?

 

[katherine]

thats funny... how could you not know what you own.

More than once, I have queried whois on a name to find out I already own it... :smilewinkgrin:

 

[tetrapak]

I've been negotiating with a Sedo buyer for a few days and finally settled at 700$ for the domain. Then i went to Snapnames, to check the registrar for the domain and when i logged in to the registrar i realized it wasn't there. It expired 8 months ago (dead email -> no message before expiration), and somebody took it 2 months ago. Even more, the current owner is off to Pakistan for 3 months (according to his "business partner"), and has fake whois email.

 

[petrosc]

More than once, I have queried whois on a name to find out I already own it... :smilewinkgrin:

same happened to me a few days ago I was checking the plural version of a name that I own, and to my surprise I owned that one as well. I totally forgot that I regged it a few months back :lol:

 

[draggar]

I just realized this morning that a few in my list I didn't own anymore.

Also, I jumped when I saw a domain that I liked some up in my Pool.com notification.

I almost put in a bid for it, then I realized that it was one I let drop a month ago.

 

[tinner666]

Pretty bad for the economy if we have to let our own domains drop so we can buy them back eh?:lol:
Sign of age I guess.

 

[draggar]

Pretty bad for the economy if we have to let our own domains drop so we can buy them back eh?:lol:
Sign of age I guess.

Yes, it's a loophole to get a free renewal on your domain. Let it expire before you pay so when it drops you only have to pay $60 for it but that comes with a free renewal! :lol:

 

[tekz999]

It usually when I didn't drink my cup of coffee in the morning =.=

 

[Stian]

I was once negotiating 2 deals at once, late at night when I had been working all day and was dead tired. I was selling one lo $x,xxx domain and one mid $x,xxx domain. I ended up pushing the lo $x,xxx domain to the one who paid for the mid $x,xxx domain and the other way around. Luckily for me, both of these buyers were professionals and they quickly pushed the names back to me .. Not a big deal really, but my point is that everyone does stuff like this all the time, it's called 'being a human'.

 

[tetrapak]

Good story Stian, it is a relief that i'm not the only one making these mistakes

 

[packeted]

I submitted an offer on Sedo for what I thought was downloaded.com. The guy countered at $1,000 and I thought it was my lucky day. I immediately sent payment and requested transfer. After a couple of weeks waiting for the transfer I realised my error - I'd purchased dowloaded.com. LOL - live and learn, the joys of being dyslexic....

 

[tristanperry]

I've been negotiating with a Sedo buyer for a few days and finally settled at 700$ for the domain. Then i went to Snapnames, to check the registrar for the domain and when i logged in to the registrar i realized it wasn't there. It expired 8 months ago (dead email -> no message before expiration), and somebody took it 2 months ago. Even more, the current owner is off to Pakistan for 3 months (according to his "business partner"), and has fake whois email.

Hehe, this is a classic! (As are many stories posted in this thread). I just like the fact that this domain had expired, there were fake e-mail addresses, the owner is away in another country, and yet you still managed to agree a price for this domain Lmao!

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I've only messed up once - someone PMed me, buying a domain at BIN. Although somehow had beaten them to it. Anywhoo, this member (who lost out) was disappointed, although bought another domain off me for a slightly lower price. It came to pushing the domains to the new owners, and (naturally ) - I pushed the domains to the wrong people. The member who missed out before seemed really happy, but then I had to say 'Woops, sorry. Wrong domain. *Cancells domain push*' Heh

 

[BLazeD]

Think I've done it with plurals before

 

[HomerJ]

glad to see i am not alone.