Strangest thing EVER!

[phrone]

Listen up. This is ALL TRUTH. I will start off from the beginning.

On December 28th, 2002 my friend Michael Huff died from a snowmobile accident. He was going about sixty MPH and hit a chain. The chain almost decapitated him, all though it didn't, he died of blood loss at the hospital. He was riding with another friend, John Clement. John suffered from a cut to the neck, it damaged his voice box, but he's okay now.

I wanted to show me support for Mike and so didn't his friends. So I came up with the idea of registering a domain to dedicate to him. Well I saved up my NP$ and I finally got around to registering it. Well when I got it registered, I had a friend register it for me. He needed the domain, and user name and all that so I told him it... www.michealhuff.com Well I intended it to be www.michaelhuff.com. I noticed it later when people IMing and telling me that I spelled his name wrong. Well i sent an eMail to NameCheap.com explaining this mix up. They responded and asked for the reciept of the purchase. Well I had my friend froward me the reciept and I sent them it. No response from them, so I checked my NameCheap account. The domain with the typo was still registered. So at that point I didn't know what to do, so I decided to check to see if either of the domains was still there. Sure enough www.michealhuff.com WAS there but the hosting hadn't gone through yet for some reason (still hasn't till this day.. about a week or two have passed). I checked www.michaelhuff.com next, and what's there now was up. I don't know who posted that up there (possibly NameCheap), but I sure didn't. It's strange because that's the domain I wanted and should of had.. but because of my typo I lost it . There's a phone number at the bottom of www.michaelhuff.com. I did a search for the number and nothing came up.

Anyone have any suggestions on what to do next.. give up? eMail them back? Try to register it?

Thanks for reading this all

 

[bensontwenty]

phrone - what a sad story. I ran a whois search on the domain above and got various other bits of info on the owner. His name is michael huff and he's from california. I've pm'd you his details including alt email addy


maybe try emailing the guy directly - he only registered it in september and he might just want it for a 'vanity' website
jp

 

[phrone]

Will do, thanks you Oh so much!

 

[Delete]

yea email him and tell him your story. I'm sure he has some kind of heart.

 

[armstrong]

I feel for you, Adam. I'm sorry to hear about your friend, and this is a laudable project you've started.

But with all due respect to your late friend, I think that the current owner of MichaelHuff.com has a better use for the domain. Put yourself in his place - would you agree to sell or donate AdamTarr.com if someone approaches you with a similar tale?

Perhaps you should instead go for other extensions such as .org, .us or .info - these will do nicely for a memorial website.

 

[phrone]

I dunno.. I might stick with michealhuff.com for a while.. or just give up on the site. Simply because no website can express my true fellings for his absense..

 

[g0ldy]

Name Cheaps support sucks. I emaed them a week ago still no reply!

 

[Elefekt]

thats a sad story. They arent obligated to let you reregister but its sad that someone else regged it.

 

[MSX]

http://graynews.maine.com/2003-01-03/michael_huff.html

Sad story indeed...

Maybe the owner of MichaelHuff.com will let you have the domain if you ask him? Or sell it to you at reg. fee? Hopefully he's nice about it.

Nate

 

[danielu]

get the .org

 

[Prosperous]

Yep, get the .org. Perfect for your purposes.

 

[Chris Matthers]

.info might be nice and info about him

 

[phrone]

Thanks guys :tu:

 

[drmaximus]

I hope that it's not too off topic, but I am beginning to move my domains from Godaddy and NC into Enom. The latter has recently shown me excellent service support. I get emails from them within 24hrs, and not canned replies. One even explained to me that their transfer system is currently facing some difficulties, and that they appreciated my having worked with them by providing the owner's addy, EPP code, etc. Cool. I have also been quite impressed by EasyDNS' support, but their prices leave a *lot* to be desired.

 

[redhippo]

a tribute

soory about your friend michaeal....he is fortunate

to have a friend like you who

remembers.............life is so short.

What is the meaning of LIFE?? that is the big

Question. to buy and sell Domains?

so thats the reason for the RIP your signature.





RIP MJH-a tribute to Michael J. Huff


tragic.

 

[CookieMaster]

Hey my friend,
your story touched everyone. You better grab .org domain before it gets too late as well. Good luck.

 

[phrone]

Thanks guys

How did you find the story in the Gray News MSX? Simply search for Michael James Huff on Google?

Sad.. I know Nearing a year now..

Not sure about snowmobiling...