movingconcierge said:
1 am, I regged a couple of decent expired names. I was feeling good. My thinking was obviously clouded. I wanted a LLL.com, but instead I adopted the ugly stepbrother of one!
I think that sums it up...
hehe That has a familiar ring to it.
Just to make you feel better, I'll share one of my stories w/ you.
Before Snapmames held auctions, their service was similar to GoDaddy's in that only one person was allowed to place an order for a drop on any given name. To insure that you were the first in lineit was not uncommon to order snaps for names that were 6 and even 9 mos away from their expiration dates. I was chasing down LLL and NNN .com, .net and .org names and, needless to say, the majotity of the name drops that were ordered were ordered for names that were renewed before expiry. Even when you were lucky enough to have the order for a name that did drop, there was no guarantee that Snapnames would be the drop service that would win the name. In fact, during that period, Pool was the preemminant drop catcher so there there was often much ringing of hands and pounding of heads upon desks as names that had been tracked for several months were renewed or caught by someone else.
The frustration of not being the first in line compounded by the sting that was brought on by too many recent, failed attempts can create panic in the souls of mortal men and cause them to do strange things. In my case, I had been in extreme search mode and had, first, begun by running checks of NNN names, later switched over to NNNN .coms and, ultimately, dropped down to NNNN .nets. I ended up placing a $60-something drop order on 0004.net, an idea that had seemed like such a good one during the wee hours of that early morning. I went away and forgot about it. A month later, I remember how excited I was when I saw the "Congratulations! We have..." in the subject line of a Snapnames email.
WooHoo! Yeah! With visions of grandeur in my head, ("I wonder? Could it be that the LLL .com snuck through? Naw. Bet it's one of those NNN. nets or LLL.orgs but, heck, I have no complaints. Let's see what we've got here.), I opened the email. You can imagine my dismay when I saw 0004.net was the name that was sitting there, looking at me and staring me in the eyes.
I dropped it a year later. That, (as I can see you, now, know), is what you should do w/ these names.
