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Offline takemehomegrandma

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Re: Amiga Inc formally dead?
« on: April 09, 2010, 05:53:14 PM »
Quote from: Wayne;552481
Yes, but if you try to purchase it (as I did) it comes up as not available.  I'm guessing it's pending deletion for the invalid WHOIS info..
 
The way the expiration date works is that the date listed (the 2011) is to allow godaddy to keep it in their system during the grace period, which I'm not sure applies.
 
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I tried to buy it too, but by using godaddy's "Domain Buy Service", where you pay them to negotiate a deal with the domain owner. You don't have to google much to get a hold of upset articles on the web describing how godaddy has a habbit of pulling back domains for more or less valid reasons (invalid whois info being one that often gets mentioned), to sell them off to new customers. I thought I might have a chance by using the "Domain Buy Service" from godaddy themselves, so I paid the fee! :) After a while though, I had suddenly "asked for a refund" (huh?!??!), the service was canceled, and my money put back into my account. I asked for an explanation, but never got one. Anyway, worth a try! ;)

Anyway, if anyone is interested, their "Certified Domain Name Appraisal" service (which was included in the Domain Buy service) suggested that the domain to be worth between $1,268-$3,296. My ass! A domain that has been dead for a decade. But I was prepared to pay $1,500 for it, which also was my bid.

My plan was actually to make a latino-lesbian site out of it. Seriously! :)
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)
 

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Re: Amiga Inc formally dead?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2010, 06:12:37 PM »
Quote from: persia;552534
Assuming no one from Amiga Inc steps in to claim it, Amiga.com will go to auction.  You have to realise that while it is worthless as a computer domain the name "Amiga" means Female friend in both Portuguese and Spanish.  It could easily be worth a small fortune to a dating service or the infamous Español Lesbianas.

My guess:  minimum €25,000, maximum €250,000.  

This is big, a real word, in a big real language, in dot com.


Worth a try though, right...? ;)
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)