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Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by lionhearted »

jacquesm wrote: post #93
ody wrote: post #89

"a bad [hairday] you may lose it " The fact you say people may lose it because you may have "a bad [hairday]" says so much about you. Which is: an inconsiderate ass hole looking for glory/karma points.

Thank you for your kind feedback. I think this comment says more about you than it does about me. The point is: If enough people abuse this I might have to put a stop to it. So, to make sure that it is absolutely clear that this is not to be used for mission critical stuff because I reserve the right to 'undo' it. Most likely it will last forever but I do not wish to have anybody sue me at some point for making a pro…

> Looking forward to more positive contributions from you in the future.

This might be my favorite comment by you of all time Jacques - very elegant way of dealing with that nonsense. I don't need a subdomain, but much respect and cheers for doing this. And jeez, I guess there'll always be critics no matter what - "inconsiderate ass hole looking for glory/karma points" - that must be ever so enjoyable to see after devoting a few hours to setting people up and helping them out.

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by kls »

jacquesm wrote: post #150
ericflo wrote: post #149

I'm curious, is there a backstory on how you came to own ww.com?

Yes, the short version is someone auctioned it off on ebay (I never went to ebay in my life before then) and was apparently negotiating with weight watchers. I had a lot of money set aside from the sale of 'gameplay.com', so over Christmas I negotiated with the guy (while all of Weight Watchers was on a holiday they well deserved) and by the 27th we had a deal. We set up an escrow, I paid, he transferred the domain.…

Wow, great story, I have a similar one, a guy registers Orlando.com because orlandosurfnet is not available and he wants to do an ISP. Anyway, ISP does not go so well so he slaps up a booking engine from HRN now hotels.com and starts making a little bit of revenue. So HRN, Disney and a few other players are all after the domain and bombard the guy with lawyers. I am pretty sure he had Aspergers or some other form of high functioning autism. So I think it freaked him out and he just was not budging. So we go down to his office, talk to the guy take him to lunch find out what he really wants to do and just don't bombard the guy. We finalized the paperwork that day and grabbed it out from under the other players. Anyway, your story just reminded me that a little honest conversation and a little less business can go a long way some times. In the end everyone got what they wanted. Well not everyone but all the parties I was interested in did.
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