My Bird Name was Taken

My Hoped for Bird Name was Taken – What a Bummer!

By Charles L Harmon

Good Luck or What?

Rusty Blackbird is looking a little pale

 

Being heavily into the Internet I had put up a new Bird Quote website about a half year before. I decided to make up a name for the administrator of that site. I thought of many names and finally settled on the domain name RustyBlackbird.com.

That’s a real bird and a good symbol that represents both me and the website. I checked to see if the domain name was available knowing it was so unusual that it would surely be mine. Wrong! It was taken and my luck was stone cold.

I had spent a lot of time and a lot of deliberation picking that name and wanted it not only as the administrator name, but had planned to make it a companion website to promote www.BirdQuote.com .

What to do? What to do? I felt I had spent too much time and planning to give up so easily. I checked to see who the owner of the domain name was. Who could possibly have a domain name like that? Lo and behold, I recognized the unusual name of the registered owner.

Out of the millions of domain owners, the name I wanted was registered to someone I had met several months earlier at a bird show in San Diego. At least I assumed it was him, Sam Crowe. If it was the Sam I had met earlier that year we had spent several hours over two days talking about all sorts of things. I didn’t know he had any domain names, but knew he had a bunch of websites.

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Good domain names that are relevant, short, easy to spell and pronounce are very difficult to come by nowadays. Most are already taken. But then again, some people are lucky and get a nice, short, easy-to-remember domain name. Take Chitra, for example. A first class writer, she needed a short, relevant domain name for her new social site. She got lucky and now has www.SocialVani.com. Now she needs more good luck and is looking for people to submit interesting blog posts to her site.

I quickly wrote up a proposal for me to buy his domain name, if indeed it was the Sam I knew. Off it went by email. Back it came by rejected email as no such email address. I double checked. I had sent it to the email address on record.

 

 

Now I was feeling a little sick in the stomach. I thought maybe I had hit the jackpot, but instead my email went into file 13. Now I really wanted that domain name. I couldn’t give up so easily. That’s just not me.

I racked my mind and tried to remember our conversations. I knew Sam had a lot of websites, but didn’t remember them. Then it hit me. Yes I did remember one of his websites, only one, but that was enough. I quickly recovered the scrapped email from file thirteen and resent it to the contact email on the website I remembered.

Bingo. I struck gold! Not only was the domain his, but he offered to sell it to me for exactly what I offered him. And to make matters even better he offered to buy it back for the same price if I decided not to use it. Was that Good Luck or What?

I couldn’t get a better deal than that. Good Luck was on my side. So if you want to see what a Rusty Blackbird is all about then visit my Lucky Rusty Blackbird website at http://RustyBlackbird.com. Rusty is an active sponsor of Wish Good Luck.

Copyright © 2010 – 2012 Charles L Harmon

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