websense

From 1997 - 2002, there was nothing we could do because www.tkg.com was owned by another company - then things got a little interesting…

2002 - The company that had the domain was acquired by a Fortune 500 (I’ve got some hope)

Nothing happens for a few years, but I keep watching it.

2005 - tkg.com becomes inactive and is up for sale on SEDO.com (even more hope); while on SEDO.com, the domain is used for spamming purposes (more on that later)

Now it’s early 2006 and I decide to make contact via SEDO to no avail - noone responds, not even SEDO. So I hire a SEDO “domain broker”, a service they offer and made my payment so that I could start moving forward with this whole process. Noone contacts me saying they received my payment, what the next steps were, nothing!

Several days later, I receive a “domain appraisal” for 33k! and an email telling me that they need to know the highest price I am willing to pay and that if it isn’t at least 60% of the appraised value i shouldn’t even bother. Of course, this is all so they can “negotiate on my behalf”. I translated: jack the price up as much as possible to increase their commission.

After going around a few times, I offer 25k for the domain and the SEDO representative disappears, never to be heard from again.

The seller contacts me directly, and says they will only consider 6 figure offers. I, of course, give up at this point.

I check the domain periodically over the next 2 years, and it hasn’t sold of course. Then comes April 2008, when my frustrations with SEDO hit an all time high!

Another post coming soon, with the rest of the details.