Timekeeper Posted August 14, 2014 Posted August 14, 2014 Well as many people know I have a business in real life. Well today I go to register my domains for my website and they are already taken. Well I try a couple different versions and sure enough they are all taken. Well the gentleman didn't bother to make whois information private so I google him and find he has an even larger shop than I with over 30+ registered domains obviously doing this to various shops. I contact him and he acts oblivious. Says his shop manager randomally buys domains if he thinks they sound good but then drops a sentence saying, "Yeah happened to a buddy of mine as well and he had to pay $1500 a domain to get them back". Boom, guy is trying to hustle me. We trade some threats and I let him know he can keep the domains however if he redirects them to his own website or in anyway tries using my business name for profit I will press criminal charges. Well I get off the phone and I am steaming. So I decide to look up his website, it's an okay website and I remember he says he was about to open his own e-commerce. So i get a devious idea. I head over to godaddy and start trying all the different versions of what his e-commerce website name would be. (In my industry it's very straight forward, its name<industry><specialty>. Everyone follows that template. So I start running through all of the different ways he can make it, plus a couple that deal with his local area, and buy them all for a year. I screen shot it and send him a picture of all the domains I just registered and said something like, "Well these are taken but you can always use <hisbusinessname>cantsellshit.com. He replies back we can make a trade. Lol. The funny thing is, the main website URL I wanted I had, he had just picked up some side ones, whereas I actually have his main ones. I replied back, "Nah I think I will use them as redirects thanks for the idea though" and now I have several voicemails threatening legal prosecution. Funny thing is while I was at it I decided to file a trademark for his shop name (lol) and found out that this gentleman infact does not have his business name trademarked. So I submitted that paperwork early this morning. It's going to be quite amusing when I have my lawyer send him a C&D for copyright infringement regarding his own shopname lol. Wanna act like a bitch, get treated like a bitch. 6
BigGigachad Posted August 14, 2014 Posted August 14, 2014 (edited) what is your business? also when was the domain registered and when did you start your business? Edited August 14, 2014 by Jebbyo
NoahTheWeebWolf Posted August 14, 2014 Posted August 14, 2014 That's awesome . Based Timekeeper is love... Based Timekeeper is Life!!!
Timekeeper Posted August 14, 2014 Author Posted August 14, 2014 what is your business? also when was the domain registered and when did you start your business? I'm in the automotive industry, domain registered June, Business started 3 years ago roughly. We have our shop name domain, but we didn't have an e-commerce version with the shop name, which is what he tried taking
Administrator Maldesto Posted August 15, 2014 Administrator Posted August 15, 2014 Scum bag got owned.
