The perils of not doing your homework

[ffutures]

Got this from Network Solutions today:



It's rather obvious that they didn't bother to do a whois search; I already own it!

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

You should backorder it to see whether their negotiation skills are as good as their search skills.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted, especially if I can get them to pay a fortune for it then say "sorry, I've changed my mind about buying it," but I really doubt it works like that. And it's actually the domain provided by my hosting company, my other URLs simply point to it, so it would be a bit tricky to sell it off...

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I had the same thought.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not really practical - I'm pretty sure that the first thing they do when you take them up on the offer is run a whois search.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Mechanically applying a diff to the whois output for forgottenfutures.org and forgottenfutures.com without actually reading the output?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine so - but given they are the gurus of whois you'd think they'd use it to eliminate stupidity like this.