I wanted to buy a domain name. It was taken. I looked it up on whois and found that it had been owned by this guy for 10 years, that he was not a trader, and that there were no contact details. I went to the registrar and tried to get them to pass on a message but they were having none of it. Years ago I would have been stuck, short of hiring a PI or being willing to do days of work. Luckily he had quite an unusual name and had two initials. I paid a small sum to look up the name on the electoral role and found a good candidate. I then paid another small sum to obtain an ex-directory number. Not only that but in order to pitch the offer correctly I took in a satellite view of his house in google maps, and found out his age and occupation, all before picking up the phone. Quite scary in a way. And, yes, I bought it.
March 14, 2008
quite scary in a way
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