Bidding on a typo by mistake.

[Kuffy]

Whilst relaxing over a morning coffee, I've been cruising through some of the day's offerings in the $1 expired names lists. I spotted one which I thought was virtualxxxxxx.com ( xxxxxx represents a popular sport). Having done my research, I thought - "that's too good to be true", but I bid on it anyway. When I read the confirmation message which had the name in much larger print, I noticed that the "i" was missing in virtual. It was too good to be true.

So the message is - don't talk to partners about frozen alligators whilst you are bidding/buying domain names.

So now what do I do? I can't cancel the bid.

• I could put some advertising on it, and see if I can pick up some revenue.
• I can cite it as an example of a mistake in various postings and places, and use it for traffic generation
• I can list it fr sale here on Name Pros, and let somebody else do the work.

What would you do in this situation?

 

[Corey]

Hmmm...can’t reach this page
Try this

• Make sure you’ve got the right web address: http://vrtualgolf.com

 

[Kuffy]

It should be working, and I've just installed an auto-SSL certificate on the site, so https should work as well. I've just checked that, and it looks as if it is only working on the sub-domain - https://www.vrtualgolf.kat1.com/ http works well for me though.

Thanks for alerting me to this. I'll hve to check it out tomorrow.

I had a quick look, and I think I gave myself a problem by settng up the hosting before I changed the DNS. I check tomorrow to see if it has updated, If it hasn't, I'll delete it and re-install, that will probably be the quickest and easiest option.
Thanks for alerting me to this.