ask to who? to the person who registered this domain and was about to sell it to unknown person?
do we have this kind of pandemy every day?
again. you ASSUME my only purpose for this domain was to SELL SELL SELL. so guilty be default? or just convenient for you to have an excuse to attack someone?
repeating something over and over again does not make it true. only true is true.
this domain was never pitched to anyone. either on Namepros or anywhere. It was just in my inventory and forgotten.
so by your definition ALL DOMAINERS purpose is to SELL DOMAINS?
NONE EVER DEVELOP? that right? on your say so?
I think Rick Schwartz would have to disagree with you on that and so would many other domainers.
And what? are you psychic now? you can tell what goes on in the brain of every domainer?
I dont think it was Spain who offered you 10k.
But you were about to sell it to someone...
Spain owns .es and during the alarm state the gov can take everything without ask it
Actually I was no where NEAR selling. and come to think of it. if I did then Spain would take it from them.
Or Spain would have to DEAL with SOMEONE who had planned on developing the domain and developed it.
I don't know but maybe that developer would probably charge them a fee or make money from advertising. In any case the domain would not be in the possession of Spain but in the buyers hands.
If the domain was developed and is doing exactly what Spain had planned for it. Then why would they take it? The buyer would have full control over coronavirus.es and Spain would have to use them as the main source of spreading info to Spain.
I don't know about you but I think in that scenario Spain probably would need to pay them something? But I don't know.
So..... let me ask. Would you have issue with the $10K buyer had they developed the domain and Spain Gov had to let them keep it? I mean think about it. Had this buyer developed coronavirus.es into a decent info website about coronavirus that they told me they planned. Would Spain be in a position to take it? I mean if all roads lead to "informing the people" why or how could Spain justify taking it?
if anything coronavirus.es had nothing developed on it. So yea makes sense to take it. put it to good use.
but if someone paid $10K for it and developed it. Then I think Spain would have had no choice and maybe could not take it? or maybe I'm just wishful thinking.
meanwhile to recoup their $10K spend the new owner of coronavirus.es would need to make money from ads. It's understood.
You take issue with ME complaining about how Spain took my domain.
Yet you seem to be OK with the FACT that SOMEONE Tried to buy coronavirus.es for $10K for the purpose of yea sure "helping" people but if you can sit there and make a blanket STATEMENT that all domainers care about is MAKING MONEY then what about a buyer willing to pay $10K for coronavirus.es? Then they MUST be of the same idea. To make money.
Don't you think that buyer even though they had "noble" plans for coronavitrus.es that they will create a website for it and make money from ads? Who knows? Maybe they wanted coronavirus.es to make a name for themselves in Spain? to have coronavirus.es as the main website in Spain to get info. after all of this blows offer. Guaranteed whoever owns coronavirus.es and developed it will be very well known.
I think ultimately this was the plan on this buyer. I trust no one and their talk talk talk when they try to negotiate with me.
Again I repeat.
1. I did not like the buyer. Shady.
2. They went from $2000 to $5000 to $10,000. I did not feel this was the right price for this domain. You can take this how you want. If this person WAS say some scammer who wanted to use coronavirus.es for scamming then would you argue THEN that not selling for $10K was wrong? Again we really have no idea who this buyer was.
3 Still don't know if Spain hired this person to buy this domain. maybe yes maybe no. I DON'T KNOW.
4. Spain took coronavirus.es. no warning. No civilized request to borrow or request. Just took it.
Even in chaos there still needs to be just proper civility especially from a government. if not then we're all just a bunch of animals taking what we want because we feel we can.
Let's not change the subject here because this is what this boils down to. not about me not getting six figures because I already offered the buyer to use this domain for free.
If the buyer had no connections with Spain Gov then the Spain Gov really did just take this domain PERIOD. they didn't offer to buy it.
they just took it.
So you have two scenarios.
1. They offered to buy it via stealth. did not happen so they took it.
2. They never offered to buy it via stealth. They just took it.
#1 is bad and upsets me because they went stealth mode to buy it when they could have just contacted me directly. call it what you want but if #1 is true. then they wanted to buy coronavirus.es as cheaply as possible. they couldn't so they took it.
#2 is fair and I take no issue with. It's for a good cause and I'm ok with it. What I am not ok with is HOW they did it. Taking is fine but taking it without as much a formal request? so I can say yes or no?
what would have been the problem with making a formal request when you have the power to take it anyway? it would not have been a risk to make a formal request.
it feels good to donate and do good. but if someone forces you to donate or do good? I don't know isn't that bad? THE WAY it SHOULD go down is. "We're collecting money for the poor. Would you care to donate for a good cause?" And THEN you have the option to give or not give.
it's like that donations basket the goes around at church. It's understood you are supposed to put money in there already but the guy holding the basket goes thru your pockets for your wallet and throws it in there.
i mean cmon. I'm just talking basic common sense here.
You guys can flip it all you want to make me look like a d*ck here but that is the essence of this whole thing. Everything about this just makes my head spin. i don't have an issues with Spain taking the domain. It's HOW they took it.