Originally Posted by kane

For me it is easy. I lost 5 domains that I owned. 3 didn't matter, they had nothing on them, but the other two had about 3 years worth of free sites and old galleries that were still getting nice traffic. I lost about 70% of my income with that.

In a nutshell I was having problems with my netsol account and couldn't log in. I call them on the phone and I will have to fax them a bunch of info so they know it is me. They don't tell me that the domains are about to expire (even if I knew that I had no way to log in and renew them, maybe they could have done it over the phone, but who knows, they seemed like they didn't care to help me much.) I leave for a week for vacation and decide I will deal with this when I get home. During the vacation the domains expire, netsol doesn't hold them and they get bought up by someone else who puts up an FPA and a bunch of pop-ups.

I'm not happy, I contact him and offer him 5K for the domains. He wants 20K for them. I tell him they will be worth $50 in two weeks once all the link lists and TGPs blacklist them for redirecting. He doesn't budge, I didn't have 20K to give him so I was screwed. Funny thing is about three weeks later those domains were blacklisted everywhere and traffic fell off to almost nothing. He then contacted me and wanted to know if I still wanted to buy them for my original offer. They were worthless by then so I turned him down. He should have just taken my 5K and been happy with it.

So I lost a lot of work and nearly left the business, but decided to stick around and rebuild and go in a different direction. The moral of the story is always take note of when your domains will expire and renew in plenty of time.