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Posted by Jeff on Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 10 20 am
A recent story on Tech Crunch revealed that the folks who owned GeorgeWBushLibrary.com accidentally (forgot) to renew it. That is not that big of a deal right? You just login to GoDaddy and get it renewed Wrong!
Illuminati Karate, a North Carolina based web development company stole the domain out from under the nose of Yuma Solutions.
Illuminati Karate paid less than $10 for the www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com domain name – and sold it back for $35,000 to the library's contracted Web developers, Yuma Solutions, who had accidentally let it expire. Illuminati Karate recognized what the library obviously knew as well – that anything else, like www.GWBPresidentialLibrary .com, would have been cumbersome and less than ideal.
I honestly can say that this has happened to me before. I let a domain name of my previous Political Blog expire on accident (thought I had automatic renew on). After a few nice emails and $231 I got it back.
H/T TechCrunch
