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Monday, May 4th, 2009

Yes, the triumphant bells of victory are ringing!  I am now a Bido Expert!  You will now be enlightened with my daily puns on the wonderful Bido auction site.  It was only yesterday that I found myself blogging about domains on the Bido auction site, patiently tapping my foot eagerly awaiting the time that I too could post on directly on the site.  Now I can and the world of domaining will never be the same again!  But first, I must type my bio and prepare my profile before the fun and games can begin!

On a side note a domainer by the name of Gary Lach has solicited me with domain SPAM!  Here is the email message that I received from him early this morning:

from    gary lach <garylach@gmail.com>
to    eightmotives@gmail.com
date    Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:21 AM
subject    www.DevilForums.com
mailed-by    gmail.com

Hello , I am  offering the above name for sale at $150 , it was a forum at one time with  1,500  members  .

If interested please get back to me .

Regards

Gary Lach.

If there is one thing in the world that I can not stand it is SPAM, let alone domaining SPAM.  He obviously checked my whois information for a domain name that I own, devilforum.net and figured he might be able to email me blindly about the domain he has for sale.  Gary this was not a very professional thing to do, I am actually quite disturbed that the industry has domainers who use solicitation tactics to sell domain names instead of taking the appropriate routes to find a buyer.  Thanks but no thanks!  Now onto the quality of domain you are selling (spamming).  Lets be honest here Gary, the domain name devilforums.com does not have any range when it comes to the domain name devilforum.com, I guess what I am saying here is that you’ve added an “s” to a domain name that would otherwise be quality and completely diminished the value of the domain name.  Indirectly you’ve actually increased the overall value of my devilforum.net because you have registered a similar TLD and it makes your domain registration look a little defeating.  Anyhow, I would laugh if anyone were to buy the domain you are offering for more than $20, the mere fact that you are soliciting the domain name to unexpected candidates and are trying to charge them $150 for such a name proves to me that such a transaction has SCAM written all over it.

Off to Bido I go!

Best Regards,

Jason Thompson

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