My dumb mistake...

[gingeman]

Hi npers I always love to tell you all about my latest stupid domaining mistakes, in the hope that nobody follows in my footsteps.! :hehe:

Anyway, to cut to the chase, having had my moniker account set up for some traffic testing I decided to reg a few typos just to get a feel for the 'real' traffic compared to overture listings. What i didn't realise is that the 'grace period' for deleting domains only applies to .coms and not .co.uk domains, which i registered around 10 of at the full price (for the minimum of two years) I now have 10 typos of trademarked names in a ccTLD registered for two years, and they all have next to no traffic.

Oooops. :yell:

:wave: $200+ bye bye

Anyone got any suggestions on how i might re-coup some of the money?

Oh, and please don't do what I did!

 

[AussieDomainer]

oh dear!

 

[maxxwebb]

oops. :gl:

Thanks for the heads-up.

2 years - yikes!

Mike

 

[-Raja-]

200$ :blink:

 

[rzpvile]

Sorry to hear about that. Thanks for the heads now you saved a lot of others the same mistake.

 

[gingeman]

haha. Yep, I am prone to this sort of thing... Hope it helps others though!

 

[dhscott]

If the sites have affiliate programs, join them. If not, erm... You could sell them :?

 

[twist]

You could try seeing if the companies that you bought the typos of will buy the domains at reg-fee (or close to it)?

 

[Premium]

You could try seeing if the companies that you bought the typos of will buy the domains at reg-fee (or close to it)?

Not a good idea if you have them parked.

 

[dgridley]

Ouch! Now you know why I prefer slot machines to domain speculation

 

[omnia]

ooops, that hurts...... thanks for the info

 

[mubina]

ouch...

200$