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He checked on a domain name, it wasn't registered. He waited 3 days, and someone else registered it through Godaddy (most popular registrar.. so he's not the only person who uses it). Godaddy offered to help make an offer to the person who purchased it.

He doesn't say Godaddy OWNS it.. someone else registered the domain through Godaddy. BFD.

What is the complaint?

I'm not a fan of Godaddy (I'm moving all my domains to name.com).. but he doesn't have a complaint here.

If you liked the domain you should have bought it.



I understand that i should have bought it at the time (see the preface to my post - "Although this is untimately my fault") I have trouble believing that the domain was purchased by another individual because of it's obscurity, and that is the reason I'm kinda annoyed I can't have it.


This has happened to me before. Millions of names being registered, and sometimes more than one person has the same idea.

Which is why now days if I find a domain that I think I might use, but am not entirely sure about it, I waste the $8.

Chalk it up to lesson learned.


For whatever reason that I happened to lose this domain, the lesson is obviously now learned... Next time I will most definitely snap it up when the opportunity presents itself.


Since the domain isn't available anyways, what is it?




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