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SweetT · 09-06-2005, 12:38 PM

1. What the fuck was the deal with not owning your proper URL name for NationalNet?

Remember, that I actually purchased NationalNet and it's assets back in 1998 so I had no control over the domain name then. It had been branded as National Internet Services, Inc and the URL was http://www.national-net.com. From the beginning I did not like it. I went on a search immediately to find a better domain name and lucked up and found national.net was owned by a guy right here in Metro Atlanta. I hit him up and he and I made a deal for me to buy that domain for $5,000.....what a steal! I was on the way out the door for a trip so I left it up to someone else who worked as a contractor for us to contact the guy and finalize the deal. When I got home the following week the domain was owned by National A-1 Advertising. I was crushed. I have been trying to buy it from them ever since and would still pay good money for that domain (hint, hint, nudge, nudge).

At that point I started looking for another alternative and found that http://www.nationalnet.com was owned by a guy in Canada who had a personal site on the domain. I approached him to purchase it and he said "Sure! Send me $100k US and it is yours". You can imagine what my answer was to that. I continued to hit him up over the years periodically and I never got him down to less than $50k. At that point, I gave up and decided to buy http://www.natnet.com from a company called National Health Food Networks for about $3k and branded to that domain as much as I could....but I always regretted not getting one of the other two domains....especially the first one.

Now skip forward to a few months ago when I am on this very board and heard that the domain http://www.nationalnet.com was purchased by a competitor. For whatever the reason, the previous owner decided to sell it on the open market for less than I would have paid him for it and it was sold before I knew anything about it. I must admit that when confronted with entire story the competitor very graciously offered to give me the domain and we worked out a mutually amicable swap for the domain.

So, as they say, all's well that ends well

--T

09-06-2005, 12:38 PM
SweetT Shank-A-Potamus Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Atlanta, Georgia USA Posts: 1,756	1. What the fuck was the deal with not owning your proper URL name for NationalNet? Remember, that I actually purchased NationalNet and it's assets back in 1998 so I had no control over the domain name then. It had been branded as National Internet Services, Inc and the URL was http://www.national-net.com. From the beginning I did not like it. I went on a search immediately to find a better domain name and lucked up and found national.net was owned by a guy right here in Metro Atlanta. I hit him up and he and I made a deal for me to buy that domain for $5,000.....what a steal! I was on the way out the door for a trip so I left it up to someone else who worked as a contractor for us to contact the guy and finalize the deal. When I got home the following week the domain was owned by National A-1 Advertising. I was crushed. I have been trying to buy it from them ever since and would still pay good money for that domain (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). At that point I started looking for another alternative and found that http://www.nationalnet.com was owned by a guy in Canada who had a personal site on the domain. I approached him to purchase it and he said "Sure! Send me $100k US and it is yours". You can imagine what my answer was to that. I continued to hit him up over the years periodically and I never got him down to less than $50k. At that point, I gave up and decided to buy http://www.natnet.com from a company called National Health Food Networks for about $3k and branded to that domain as much as I could....but I always regretted not getting one of the other two domains....especially the first one. Now skip forward to a few months ago when I am on this very board and heard that the domain http://www.nationalnet.com was purchased by a competitor. For whatever the reason, the previous owner decided to sell it on the open market for less than I would have paid him for it and it was sold before I knew anything about it. I must admit that when confronted with entire story the competitor very graciously offered to give me the domain and we worked out a mutually amicable swap for the domain. So, as they say, all's well that ends well --T __________________