Post #128066 by stuff-o-rama on Tue, Nov 30, 2004 4:04 PM

I went to a trade show in 1997, one of my new vendors was going nuts over my store name, thought it was the "best name ever" He asked if I was planning on going online as I had a catalog mail order service at the time. I told him I was in the process, he then asked if I'd secured the domain name yet (www.stufforama.com), I told him my friend was working on it but I didn't know. By the next day he had purchased my name and posted this web site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000308052457/http://www.stufforama.com/

He then told me that if I wanted the domain he would "negociate" with me. I registered under my literal spelling of the store, http://www.stuff-o-rama.com and told him "no thanks." I stopped ordering from the guy too 'cause the whole thing just creeped me out. I kept checking back to see what was going on with the site, he never did anything to it. One day I checked it and it came back "unknown" so I grabbed it! So now I have both names. I didn't bother with the .biz, .net, etc. domains...

Side note: The "Wayback Machine" is a cool internet time waster for those who haven't stumbled across it yet. It archives all of the web sites ever posted. You can check it out at http://www.archive.org

[ Edited by: stuff-o-rama on 2004-11-30 16:06 ]