{"id":2123,"date":"2011-12-27T17:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:15:08","slug":"godaddy-and-the-early-days-of-domaining-would-you-sell-that-domain-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/godaddy-and-the-early-days-of-domaining-would-you-sell-that-domain-back\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy and the early days of domaining – Would you sell that domain back?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie over at DotWeekly<\/strong><\/a> posted an interesting story about a domain he sold and which was let to expire and which he re-registered.<\/p>\n

My story is similar, yet different – so Jamie’s post brought back some interesting domaining memories.<\/p>\n

Eleven years ago I registered a two-word .com domain that I thought it was cool and unique.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, I’m glad someone else thought of it as appealing and bought it five months later; to this date, the domain sits undeveloped and there are 125k results in Google for the terms, in quotes.<\/p>\n

My sale was significant for those early days – mid four figures. The buyer was from the UK and we used GoDaddy.com and our good faith for the sale.<\/p>\n

Here’s an email from GoDaddy during that exchange:<\/p>\n

We are aware that you have purchased a transfer of ownership for your domain name.\u00a0 As of today, we have not received your transfer documents.\u00a0 Please complete the agreement with notarized signatures from the current registrant and the new registrant and send the original with copies of your photo ID’s to:<\/em><\/p>\n

Go Daddy Software<\/em>
\n Domain Services<\/em>
\n 5320 E Dynamite Blvd<\/em>
\n Cave Creek, AZ 85331<\/em><\/p>\n

Once the documents are received your ownership transfer will be processed<\/em> immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/em>
\n Go Daddy Software<\/em>
\n Domain Services<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sale went smoothly and the domain ended up with the new owner.<\/p>\n

In early 2004, I so happened to look up the domain and I was shocked to see that it did not exist anymore. So I emailed the buyer informing them of this.<\/p>\n

As it happens more often than you think, the buyer had forgotten to renew the domain and it had lapsed and vanished from the face of the Internet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

He thanked me and re-registered it; to this date the domain is not developed in the general sense, although there is contact information on it.<\/p>\n

Moral of the story: sometimes it’s good to simply alert the buyer that their investment is in danger and give them the opportunity to reclaim it.<\/p>\n

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