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 CODY

I 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 FOR

CODYMAYS.NET

AND WHAT IS YOUR
ASKING PRICE

RAVI4321@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
HI

I 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