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I'm curious, is there a backstory on how you came to own ww.com?

• jacquesm 16y ago
  Yes, the short version is someone auctioned it off on ebay (I never went to ebay in my life before then) and was apparently negotiating with weight watchers. I had a lot of money set aside from the sale of 'gameplay.com', so over Christmas I negotiated with the guy (while all of Weight Watchers was on a holiday they well deserved) and by the 27th we had a deal. We set up an escrow, I paid, he transferred the domain. Weight Watchers came back from their holiday and was sorely pissed off :)
  • tsycho 16y ago
    Care to give a ballpark on how much you paid for it? Just curious.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      mail me.
  • kls 16y ago
    Wow, great story, I have a similar one, a guy registers Orlando.com because orlandosurfnet is not available and he wants to do an ISP. Anyway, ISP does not go so well so he slaps up a booking engine from HRN now hotels.com and starts making a little bit of revenue. So HRN, Disney and a few other players are all after the domain and bombard the guy with lawyers. I am pretty sure he had Aspergers or some other form of high functioning autism. So I think it freaked him out and he just was not budging. So we go down to his office, talk to the guy take him to lunch find out what he really wants to do and just don't bombard the guy. We finalized the paperwork that day and grabbed it out from under the other players. Anyway, your story just reminded me that a little honest conversation and a little less business can go a long way some times. In the end everyone got what they wanted. Well not everyone but all the parties I was interested in did.