I used to own chriseaston.com which expired on the 28th of last month. i didn’t renew it because, well i forgot, in any case it has been taken over by one of those stupid search websites. i don’t really care, but i find it stupid that some company would take the domain that i never used and try to get money from me for it.
thoughts?
I’m really sick of people who buy up domains to try and make a quick buck, not because I find it nefariously evil or even unlawful…I just think people who do things like that to make money are scuzzy, and probably work a day job in used car sales, or something.
I remember seeing a website a while ago by a guy who bought up domains like: brucewillisrules.com and mandymooreiscool.net and would try to sell them to the celebrities they were named after, with absolutely no results.
But this is even more foolish, since they’re trying to make a profit off of your own name. On a website that never even existed. Because they’re internet geniuses…
like the idiot who bought pipian.net even though I wasn’t using it because they thought I’d pay for it.
it’s a waiting game, when they lose interest you can just buy it back for the price you want.