My plan was to sell https.net on a recent Sedo auction for a million dollars. Am I kidding? Not! The place was right. I just did not do proper marketing campaign before the auction, like the pizza.com guys did. They sold their domain for $2,605,000.00. I got only $2,500.00 for my domain. Next time I am going to do a better job at marketing.

The first plan did not work, but all hope was not lost. Suddenly, yesterday I got another chance to be a millionaire. I received an email with a proposition to get $7,773,275.51 (50% of £7,800,000.00). All I need to do is to provide my name and a phone number to “Mr.Jason smith”.

Note to the reader: All quoted text is shown exactly as it is written in the email.

You see, “Mr.Jason smith” is “the credit manager in a bank here in the United Kingdom.” He writes:

“I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day.”

Well, I will not keep you guessing. This is kind of a typical Nigerian Phishing email. I usually do not get this kind of nonsense emails because my mail system puts it in a safe place where nobody can see it. This one got trough to my junk folder because it is full of errors. For your amusement below are forensic details of the millionaire offer.

Email was sent from IP 80.89.185.37 which is allocated to Cobranet Limited, with the physical address:
plot 8, Rafiu Babatunde Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, Nigeria.

Next, the Russian mail server mail.starlink.ru scanned it for content and added SPAM to the Subject line.

From and Reply to are different email addresses, probably false.

Below are partial headers (technical details) of the email.

From: Jason Smith <jason231smith at yahoo.gr>
Reply-to: Jason231smith at hotmail.com
Subject: [SPAM] Be our trusted contact

Received: from mx.starlink.ru ([77.50.1.3])
Received: from 80.89.185.37 ([80.89.185.37]) by mail.starlink.ru

End of story. I am not a millionaire. Back to the drawing board.

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There are some outrageous bids for domain names being auctioned off. How about $1,000,000.00 for pizza.com, is it too much?

Follow the link below to see for yourself.

http://greatdomains.com/search/searchresult.php4?auctionevent=Greatdomains

From 7863 five letters English dictionary words the following .com domains were available on March 14, 2008.

AGUIE.COM
DEEYN.COM
JOETE.COM
MOUED.COM
RYCCA.COM

There were many more six letters English dictionary words.
Out of 11866 words, I found the following six letters  .com domains were available on March 14, 2008.

AIDSES.COM
ALACKS.COM
ALEJOA.COM
ALUINO.COM
AYLMAR.COM
BAERIA.COM
BIBBYE.COM
BRNABA.COM
BRNABY.COM
BYRANN.COM
CLXVII.COM
COPSED.COM
DNIREN.COM
DORREE.COM
EADITH.COM
ERUCTS.COM
FAFFED.COM
FAUNIE.COM
FTPERS.COM
GORAUD.COM
HIEING.COM
HULAED.COM
ILAIRE.COM
JDAVIE.COM
JUIETA.COM
KAYLIL.COM
KELLBY.COM
KILNED.COM
LECHED.COM
LOURED.COM
MARTED.COM
MEALED.COM
MEWLED.COM
MILTED.COM
MILZIE.COM
MIPSES.COM
MIRIER.COM
MOUING.COM
MULCTS.COM
MUNMRO.COM
MUREIL.COM
MURVYN.COM
MYRVYN.COM
MYRWYN.COM
NOELYN.COM
NOESES.COM
OBIING.COM
OFELLA.COM
OLENEK.COM
ONFROI.COM
ORALLA.COM
ORALLE.COM
ORELEE.COM
PEWITS.COM
PHEKDA.COM
PURIMS.COM
PUTNEM.COM
PYXING.COM
QUESES.COM
QUINES.COM
RAHING.COM
RANDED.COM
REJIGS.COM
REVKAH.COM
RTFMED.COM
SAITHS.COM
SEINED.COM
SHALNE.COM
SIRRED.COM
STAYRE.COM
TANHYA.COM
TILDIE.COM
TRIKED.COM
TWILIT.COM
VERIEE.COM
VILYUI.COM
VIVAED.COM
WALLIW.COM
WANIDS.COM
WEFTED.COM
WILONE.COM
WYATAN.COM
ZONNYA.COM

End of lists and post.

All of the domain registrars have problems. They like to challenge user’s sanity with feature overloaded web interfaces. Guys, simplicity and fast database updates are the key. That is why I still pay higher prices for some domains registered with OpenSRS operated by Tucows. Their management interface is text based and simple. Database updates are instantaneous.

I have no more domains with NetworkSolutions. Their prices, $35 for a .com name, are you kidding or insane? Read the fine print of their service bundling advertising in detail. Ten years ago they used to be the only game in town. That would explain why their customer service has been arrogant with me. Take for example a simple question: “I would like to find out what domains use my DNS server named ns1.example.com”, answer: “We do not have this kind of information”. Who does? You operate .com Registry and own the database. This gives me two choices. Lookup 6,000,000 domain names or abandon the domain server name. They also used to offer 100 years domain renewals.

Another interesting and forgotten fact is that about ten years ago domain name registrations were free of charge.