Are They Really This Dumb in Dallas?
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As I said earlier this year, one of my goals for the year was to find a few new sources of secondary income. One of the paths I’ve taken to meet that goal has me flirting with the domaining business (yes, that’s an affiliate link, and yes, the info is worth every red cent). I’m no Kevin Ham or anything [yet 
], but I’m slowly and steadily building my virtual real estate empire. It’s always interesting to browse through what some are willing to pay for a domain name and get a little inspiration.
In catching up with the news from the latest auctions, I just had to shake my head at America’s Team and their utter ineptitude in fumbling the auction of a great piece of VRE: Cowboys.com. Thinking they were going to get a prime domain like Cowboys.com for $275 rather than a more realistic $275,000 (but still insanely cheap — if that were a domain in my stable, I’d be looking for another zero to be tacked on) is cluelessness on a grand scale. Pleading poverty certainly won’t work. After all, they are spending in excess of a billion on their new stadium. The $275k would barely be a rounding error.
Moron of the Year, indeed… 
Matthew Anton said,
Wrote on October 26, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
when I first read about this I couldn’t help but think how informal they must think the process is…they texted in 275 apparently assuming it would be read as 275k..big mistake. You need to be exact and precise when dealing with large sums of money and it proved to be the loss of that domain name.
lisa from gumdiseasetreatmentsblog said,
Wrote on October 30, 2007 @ 3:25 pm
Yes, they are.
It’s a pity that they lost out do to their ignorance, isn’t it?
Promotional Dude said,
Wrote on November 13, 2007 @ 1:16 am
Wow, that is stupid. Have you checked out the domain auction service over at Moniker.com? I was wondering how that works. I was planning on looking at it during Pubcon next month.
Marty said,
Wrote on November 15, 2007 @ 6:44 am
First of all, let me wish you good luck in building your empire in this beautiful internet world :] and second, that’s hilarious! A premium domain for so cheap? What were they thinking? LOL!
Llama Money said,
Wrote on December 4, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
That domain should have sold for at least low 7 figures.. and it probably will one day if it ever goes back up for sale. Can’t believe they missed a huge bargain on it by being careless…