https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1035316 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/web-hosting-and-domain-names/strangest-domain-story#comment-1204455 <p>Well about the closest to strange I have, is more a stupidy on other people's parts. I have a domain name that was once owned by a large company. They had the .com and .net. Well one day I was chekcing aorund and the .net was available. I grabbed it. Every other common version is taken (.org, .biz .cc .info and several ones in other countries). </p> <p>Well for a long time, I didn't have any site on the domain, but would put up sites for my self and others a <a href="http://www.domain.com/" class="bb-url">domain.com/</a><em>whatever</em> The domain itself appeared to not have a domain name, and I had about 20 people who I set up e-mail forwarding (it is my family name, so set a lot of family up at <a href="mailto:firstname@lastname.net" class="bb-email">firstname@lastname.net</a>.</p> <p>Anyhow for about 3 years I would get an e-mail about once every few months asking me "since you are not using the domain, can you give it to me". You know, doains don't get used unless there is a site there... LOL I finally stopped explaining things to people and told them to reply with their offer of at least $1000 or don't write back. Never heard from anyone.</p> <p>-Greg</p> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:29:27 +0000 Greg K comment 1204455 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net