I sold a dot com
February 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pm (general posts)
Roughly a year ago, while updating some records for domains I maintain there was a news event where a Canadian was appointed to an important position. For some reason (maybe my underlying schemer tendencies) I spontaneously registered the .com version of the domain with that person’s name. Afterward it seemed kind of pointless but a month before I was intending to let it expire I received an unexpected email from an IT consultant “Is this domain for sale?”
I replied that yes it was available for $100 and then almost immediately, after a comment from jadz, followed up with “Oops! I meant $1000″, laughing my ass off the whole time at this bizarre series of events.
The consultant checked with his client and came back with an offer of $250 USD which I accepted and which they client probably considered an absolute bargain. We consummated the deal a few weeks later through Escrow.com.
And that was my career in domain squatting 
(I’m writing this here because Laura at work got such a kick out of the story hope it’s entertaining to you as well)