Yesterday morning, shortly after waking up I hit the computer as usual. The coffee was brewing and I had not had a cup yet.

Perhaps it would be best from now on if I would get a cup of coffee or two in me before I look at my emails.

One of the emails was to inquire if a domain I owned was for sale. I don’t like making something up that is not consistent with the list price I have it listed for. The domain is listed on Sedo for $2,000.00.

I thought about the domain for a few seconds and remained steadfast at $2,000. The domain is a good strong Italian generic word.

I responded to the email with the price, thanked the person for the contact, hit send and – WHOA! tried to stop it from going. Instead of $2000 I mistakenly entered $200.

It was a bonehead and honest mistake. I immediately sent a second email apologizing for the error and gave the correct price of $2000.

Within a few minutes I got a response back from the interested party that stated;

Thank you for the quick response.

That’s okay on the correction because I couldn’t figure out how you could justify asking $200 to start with.

I should have felt bad for screwing up the first email but I didn’t after I got this response.

I am thinking to myself, Why would I have to justify this name? Obviously they know what it means or else they would not be interested.

I looked at the original and follow up email I received and did not see anything odd. There was something at the very bottom of the email about the company information, etc.

Then I noticed it.

It is the company’s name.

The company’s name was the same name of the sunject domain name with the word solutions added.

I am beginning to think that this has got to be a joke.

The domain name is one I purchased as expired close to 3 years ago and I believe it was about 3 years old at the time.  So we are looking at a domain that is somewhere between 5-7 years old and is a generic Italian word.

The company is based in England and its core business is exactly what the Italian word refers to. Their business is named (LLLLLLL)Solutions.

Why on earth would I have to justify asking $200.00 let alone $2,000.00? Or, another issue, is I can be expecting a WIPO or UDRP. The shame of it is that is a real possibility. It does not matter if this word is an Italian word or a generic word at all. What matters is  I have it and someone else wants it.

It is not bad faith involved. I speak some Italian, lived in Italy for 2.5 years when I was in the US Air Force, and my wife and I spent nearly three weeks in Italy celebrating our 20th Anniversary. When I saw the word available or would be available, I knew what it meant and I wanted it. The domain is currently parked and has never had anything to do with their company in terms of viewing their products or relating to their products. I have it parked with all Italian terms on it and it looks pretty good. And all the links showing are Italian.

It gets so-so traffic and a few clicks here and there.

The issue with Italian generics is the same thing that is happening to many European languages in dot com…they are losing in popularity to their cc counterparts. Look at what is going on with .de, .es, and how much the .nl or .at market is heating up.

The point is this is an Italian word and the Italians are going more and more for the .it extension. I just happened to have gotten a good Italian word which does not have a big demand for it from the Italians.

I take comfort in not having to justify anything especially when he felt like the $200 was too much.

Somehow I wonder if somewhere down the road this person will mention to someone higher up in the company that he had a change to buy (LLLLLLL).com for $2K but laughed it off.

I like the vision I have of a very busy office suddenly coming to a screeching halt, every one frozen in position, all heads turned around staring at this guy with mouths open, and he says, “What’s everyone looking at?”

MedicareAct.com

Regged in 2004

Huge name in news and will continue to gain media attention.

Medicare Act of 2003 will be revised and revamped.

EyeSearch.com

$3,682.00

TDnam

9 Days Remain

The name of the game is Quality vs. Quantity.

Once we get that junk out of the domain portfolio we finally get down to the quality gems.

I have quickly noticed that this same principal needs to be applied to Twitter.

Make no mistake about it; Twitter is a powerful tool. It is an exceptional tool for making new contacts, learning, and news.

I have seen sites on the internet and people touting their method of success to get 15,000, 25,000, 40,000 followers on twitter. The process usually involves following someone and they reciprocate back by following you.

That is the quantity side of things.

To prove the point of how popular this tool is, late night TV host Jimmy Fallon had an audience member reveal his Twitter user name on air and the number of followers (7). Jimmy requested every one in the studio and TV audience follow this guy.

This kid went from 7 followers to almost 43,000 in less than 2 hours.

What about doing business on Twitter? What would it be like to follow 42,000 people? What if all the people you were following were posting on Twitter? Or even half or a quarter were to post? What if you had to scroll though 42,000, 21,000, 10,000, 5,000 or even 500 tweets to find an answer to a question you posed an hour ago.

If you want to use Twitter as a popularity ranking tool that is perfectly fine and perhaps enjoyable for many people.

Honestly, I have no intention of using twitter as a Mr. Popular barometer. I perceive my time on twitter as an opportunity to create and educate. That works both ways for me. I can either learn new creative skills and tips as I learn WordPress. Or I can offer my creative skills or knowledge of advertising. I want to be able to offer relevant content (quality) over simply tweeting every blessed thing I do (quantity). I am convinced that there is not a living soul out there in twitterverse that really cares about all the nuances of my day or a minute-by-minute play of what I am doing. This may come as a shock to many, but I really do not care about you standing at the gas pump filling up your car.

As a courtesy, I have responded to the notice of someone following me by following them back. Oh, brother…what some mistakes those have been. I hate to do it but I am going to have to unfollow (remove) myself from some of my own followers. To illustrate this point, I am on a couple other twitter accounts involving other interests and professions. Honestly, one girl posted 28 tweets in an hour. None were directed at anyone, none were of any import, and all were seemingly space filler. It was as if she enjoyed seeing her own words. And if that was not harmless enough, she DM’d me to ask a question. I honestly thought I was inside the mind of a bi-polar person and it was evident.

I do not want twitter to be like many of the forums that have lost the focus of what the forum was for. Nor do I want my Twitter account to end up being someone’s personal chat room. I want my Twitter time to be quality Twitter time. I want quality in who I follow for their content. It is not important if they follow me back. I want to seek out those that are leaders in their field, specialty, occupation, and opinions. That is what following is all about. I want read and post tweets that are enjoyable to read.

I appreciate every individual person or entity that follows me.

Honestly, there are not 42,000 people alive that I am interested in following.

And I am not going to follow 42,000 twits so I can brag about having 39,000 followers.

I read somewhere about these bragging rights and this was a popularity contest. The answer about having to deal with thousands of tweets on their page was to ignore them.

If I have to ignore my followers and those I follow, then I’ll just ignore Twitter.

Nicki.com

TDnam. 9 Days remain, currently at $903.00

Very popular women’s nickname.

Kope.com

Currently $5,555.00

TDnam, 9 Days, 15 hours remain.

Definitely one of the better CVCV to some up recently.

Lord, Kope.com just listed on TDnam expiring auctions, 9 days left and already at $5,555.00.

RussianKGB.com

7 years old. GoDaddy registry.

Accepting Confidential Offers info@ceuq.com

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