Jul 7th, 2006
Dealing with Domain Name Parkers
Well I guess I’ll finally go ahead and make the annoucement of what my new “Web 2.0″ site was suppose to be called, Theed. Over the past few days, I have been trying my darnedest to work with the guy who has it parked. He’s trying to sell it as theED.com (the erectile disfunction for those not familiar with spam). This guy is on his fourth year of trying to sell it.
I emailed him and offered $50 for the one domain name, which he just renewed and pointed out that he would still be making a profit on it. ($8 * 4 = $32). He then comes back with a personal attack on my “IQ” level. I’ll let the following emails speak for themselves:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Are you interested in selling this domain name? I know it is going on it’s 4th
year for sale. What are you asking for it?
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HI CODYI BUY AND SELL DOMAINS GLOBALLY…AND I HAVE MORE THAN 9200 DOMAINS..
MOST OF MY DOMAINS ARE ON AUTO RENEW.I HAVE…THE FOLLOWING DOMAINS..
*THEERECTILEDYSFUNCTION.COM*
*THEED.COM*I CAN MAKE A SACRIFICE IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
I SHALL SETTLE FOR *$900*
THANKS.
RAVI
THE*ED * ALSO CAN BE USED FOR EDUCATION.
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
I really only want theed.com, but I’m not paying $900 for it knowing what you just payed last week for it.
The most I would be willing to pay is $50. Would you be willing to sell it for that? It is still almost $30 profit.
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HOW MUCH DID U PAY FORCODYMAYS.NET
AND WHAT IS YOUR
ASKING PRICERAVI4321@AOL.COM
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
It is not for sale.
Do you or do you not agree to the price I offered in the last email?
His reply:
From: ravi4321@aol.com
WHILE
THEED.COM
IS NOT FOR SALE FOR $50…
WWW.CODYMAYS.COM
IS FOR SALE …RAVI4321@AOL.COM
My response:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Sir, I hate to break it to you, but it’s definitely not for sale. There is no way I am paying
$900 for one domain name that was purchased for about $8. Right now, you are the only
one at a loss here. I have nothing to lose, but you do because you have renewed the domain
for four years now.If you accept the $50 payment for it, you will come out ahead, but if you don’t, you’ll stay in the
hole. No one else, obviously, wants this domain name because this is your 4th year of attempting
to sell it.
His response and the beginning personal attack. Notice the above email has no attack on him.
From: ravi4321@aol.com
HII BUY AND SELL DOMAINS GLOBALLY.
I DO NOT WANT TO WASTE MY TIME TRYING
TO GAUGE YOUR “IQ”. I LEAVE IT AT THAT.RAVI
My final email before this post:
To: ravi4321@aol.com
Okay, you’re going to gauge my IQ as lower than your own because I pointed out basic
business logic to you?Well if we’re judging IQ here, you better get reading a grammar book, because you are
flunking English 101 right now. You see the key marked Caps Lock? Press it so the light
turns off. That will get you started. Hope you have fun in the coming days.
Now, I become another person to ask the international blogosphere for some help here. I know the blogosphere has been pretty powerful with Comcast and AOL over the past few weeks, so I figured I would try it as a last resort. As of right now, my partners and I are very set on this name and really want the domain. Is there anyway we could still go about getting it? Any help would be appreciated.
Note:
We do not want to harm Mr. Ravi. All email addresses provided here are for reference only. Do not attempt to spam him by email or phone number from a whois lookup of theed.com
Actually, I don’t see anything wrong with what he’s doing. Every “available” name is available to everybody until somebody registers it, for whatever reason. Once its registered, they own the domain and can do as they see fit with it. He wanted it first and beat you to it. If he chooses to sit on the domain, that’s his choice. He’s purchased the option to do that. It sucks when you want it, but that’s the way the internet works. As long as he’s paying the bill, who are you to say that you have more of a right to it because of how you want to use it? Kind of a biased opinion don’t you think?
Oh, I agree with that completely, but if he’s going to go about it that way. There is no need for a personal attack. Granted, I did as well.
I do like the first come first serve rule; however; there should be a limit on the number of domains 1 person or business can own. If you want a good domain name, ‘unless you have a lot of cash,’ you got to be creative. Find something available that can fit to your content. You may be surprised whats out there still.
Consider it done.
No, I’m working on a physical memory manager (also known as paging) right now, but soon hopefully.
Oh, here’s the email:
You state…
“As of right now, my partners and I are very set on this name and really want the domain.”
I suggest that $900 is a very small price to pay for something you are ’set on’ and ‘really want.’
Especially for a Web 2.0 project thats going to make you zillions of dollars!
Well, “my partners and I” are starting from $0 money, and I don’t recall saying that we are going to make zillions of dollars.
Anyway, we plan on changing to the name, but as of right now, we haven’t agreed on one yet.
My gosh. I remember dealing with “Ravi4321″ once.. I was interested in purchasing “thevolts.com” — for an electronic music group’s website. I sent Ravi an e-mail asking how much the domain was for. I believe I got either “$5000″ or “$15,000″ as the asking price, I don’t remember, it was a while back. Being really pissed off, I said ‘how about i just give you a dollar’ and I get
FOR A DOLLAR U CAN BUY NUTS AND BOLTS
BUT U CANNOT BUY THE VOLTS
Just thinking about this experience today I WHOIS’d that domain and found the info so I googled the name to see if there were any similiar stories. Wow. Just wanted to pass it on that you’re not alone with this jerk off.
Thanks! I’m glad to know I don’t stand alone.
Domain parkers really annoy me.
This is the funniest blog I have read in a long time!! First of all that Ravi guy is a loser and I really hope you get that domain name. I mean what the hell does he theED? That makes no sense. Good luck buddy.
Don Lapre Watcher
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We did business with this guy for a while. He has a shitload of really useless domain names so he has to make like 80+ $1k domain sales every year in order to not lose money from the registration. It’s a freakin’ crazy business if you ask me, but that’s where he’s coming from and why he demands such high prices.
His entire correspondence with us consisted of strange threats and poems in all caps. When he told us he was going to stop doing business with us we held a little party. I feel kinda bad for him though because he is clearly mentally imbalanced. I feel worse for anyone who wants to buy a domain from him.
well, I don’t think there is anything in what Ravi is doing. Come on guys, grow up. We are a capitalist country and we have been touting capitalism to Russia, China, etc. So when capitalism comes back to bite us, we cry “no fair!” lol
This post is awesome, nice work!
i think this ravi guy is just mad that he finds himself eating tv dinners alone every night because he’s too lazy to find a real job and TURN OFF THE CAPS LOCK! maybe he wants 900 because he himself has ED and feels self-conscious about it…haha forget him. Attacking your IQ level? At least he can spell IQ in all caps
I also want to get a domain he currently owns — well, about a year ago his asking price was just hilarious. I’ll see what he comes up with this time.
Tobi