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Share your biggest domain losses.
Mine was support.mobi, won at auction for $1k and let it expired.
Mine was support.mobi, won at auction for $1k and let it expired.
Dang, this one hurts to read. Sorry for your loss.Bought a very short, unique .com that I kept registered for about 20 years. Hand registered the matching .net and .org shortly after I got the .com, to go with it. I wanted to eventually use it for a personal business or product. I never had the perfect use for it, so just kept it for the future. Had an old e-mail address for the domain contacts which I rarely checked. Had auto-renew off.... I think you can see where this is going.
The .com expired. I didn't realize it until about 3 months after it had expired. The company that bought my domain at auction, renamed their entire company to it. I felt sick. Still do.
I offered to give them the .net and .org for free. No response from them. They did however trademark the name. I let the .net and .org expire. No use for me anymore.
An Asian company re-registered the .net. The .org is still available.
.com purchase + registrations for .com/.net/.org for about 20 years. Maybe not the most expensive mistake of my life, but one where only I am to blame.
I'll probably remember this mistake for the rest of my life. Certainly will if the company that owns it keeps growing. It was much more of an emotional investment for myself.
Don't be me. Keep your contacts updated and auto-renew on.
Thanks. It was a very bad day for me when I saw the domain was gone from my account.Dang, this one hurts to read. Sorry for your loss.
Oh well. Live and learn.
Totally agree. Its bad enough I am dropping the majority of my domains and occasionally selling them for reg fee, the time I spend for the $10 sale is much more than $10 worth. Add on all the other research and buying and its a massive, money losing initiative (hence why im dropping and selling them all)worst domain related investment for me is the time I lost. Money can never replace the time.
Most valuable thing we have.Money can never replace the time.
Go for what you've always wanted greater
I had tried to upload a gif but the link didn't work. As long as it was still thought-provoking, no loss!Then thought-provoked by forge's post
Since I can't yet button a Thanks. I'll do it manual. Thanks!I had tried to upload a gif but the link didn't work. As long as it was still thought-provoking, no loss!
I'm embarrassed to admit I was searching for ". ," trying to figure out if this was some cryptic emoji from the past or something new that I was behind the times on. Glad to have the mystery solved!I had tried to upload a gif but the link didn't work. As long as it was still thought-provoking, no loss!
I wouldn't guess a single person can rename a mountain. What a heritage. Like it follows our whims."On August 30, 2015, Sally Jewell announced that the mountain would be renamed Denali, under authority of federal law which permits her as Secretary of the Interior to name geographic features if the Board on Geographic Names does not act within a "reasonable" period of time."
This cause you at all to re-evaluate your portfolio?sold tulsastore.com for $1 at namepros
few months later it was sold for $2000
Share your biggest domain losses.
Mine was support.mobi, won at auction for $1k and let it expired.
Can I count mine as loss as yet?Share your biggest domain losses.
Mine was support.mobi, won at auction for $1k and let it expired.
Share your biggest domain losses.
Mine was support.mobi, won at auction for $1k and let it expired.
These are bad domains. I advice you to invest in keywords of something that means sense.I even engraved some of them in my signature, but who would look at them?
These are bad domains. I advice you to invest in keywords of something that means sense.
Thanks a bunch james, I still have much more though, but should I renew the hairic in case I couldn't sell it before it expires?
How do I do that Igor?These are bad domains. I advice you to invest in keywords of something that means sense.
I mean: buy domains which are include common used keywords.How do I do that Igor?