{"id":3267,"date":"2013-05-12T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2013-05-12T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T19:14:22","slug":"went-to-hell-and-effed-myself-on-the-same-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/went-to-hell-and-effed-myself-on-the-same-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Went to hell and effed myself on the same weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m told to “go f***<\/em>” myself and “dude u go to hell<\/em>” on the same weekend, I know I’m doing something right.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of these high school level insults were told in my face, but there is plenty of keyboard bravado from those that believe talk is cheap.<\/p>\n

The first one came through a domain inquiry at Domain Name Sales, from a guy whose grammar and nonsensical sentences matched his first name of “Donovon<\/em>.” That’s like a redneck Donovan<\/strong>, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Making an offer of $75 on a financial\/mathematical term, single word .com registered in 1996 was responded to with a mid five-figure number from me. That didn’t sit well with our friend Donovon, who supposedly runs some obscure forex\/futures trading business.<\/p>\n

Note to those on the go: if you must use your blackberry\/iphone to place offers via email, please turn that lame automatic signature off. To me, it’s as if you’re texting back and forth. Sit your butt down at a laptop or desktop, and take the time and effort to think what to respond with; this guy Donovon didn’t.<\/p>\n

Donovon’s response was typical of a lowballing douche<\/strong>: he talked down on the very domain he wanted to acquire. He upped his offer to “$500 tops” and then “$1000 max” – by then, I knew I was dealing with a time-waster<\/strong><\/a> that has no idea how to negotiate.<\/p>\n

I let Donovon know that the domain won’t drop from five figures, particularly when he snubs it. That didn’t sit too well with our “futures trading” friend, who told me to\u00a0 “go fuck” myself.<\/p>\n

I hope he doesn’t kiss his mother with that mouth, on Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n

Onto my prompt to visit hell.<\/p>\n

Someone listed a stolen domain, 2-P.com<\/strong><\/a>, on DNForum; the domain has been documented to be part of a group of domains stolen from a Norwegian professional, last year. Most of them were returned, but two or three were left at GoDaddy’s bureaucratic mercy, as the thief had transferred them from Moniker using an alias that remained unchanged at GoDaddy. I guess the geniuses at GoDaddy could not figure out that a guy named ‘Martin’ rarely comes from an IP in Algeria.<\/p>\n

Upon my notification of the seller that the domain is stolen, I received a side-splitting “dude u go to hell!” response. Now, I know that it’s hard to hear that the $$$ that one has spent on TDNAM to buy a stolen domain must be treated as a business loss, but I would expect that prompts to visit hell are reserved for the thief, not the messenger.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it’s been a great weekend, knowing that I’m doing the right thing: sticking to my guns regarding the quotation of premium domain names in my portfolio, and assisting to reclaim stolen domain names, as I’ve done many times in the past.<\/p>\n

Is it Monday yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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