I did an interview with Wall Street Journal Online a couple weeks ago about my lost domain name. You have to be a member to be able to read it. Unfortunately, it didn't explain the entire story & I was sent an anonymous e-mail pointing me to a domain forum that I also had to pay to be able to post to. The people on the forum were saying, "Why didn't she pay the $2,500? Real estate agents make lots of money." IOW, they thought I was stupid for letting it expire & stupid & cheap for not purchasing the name back. I was tempted to pay up to explain myself but decided I didn't care what they thought.

Today my husband comes upstairs to tell me I'm in the local newspaper. This time the article was really edited & didn't explain anything about the fact that I purchased the domain through my host & had asked them what the problem was...yada yada yada. IOW, it really made me look dumb!

The funny thing is, the person who runs the company that bought up my domain name is a local kid going to the same college that my son's girlfriend goes to (& my husband's bandmate teaches at). I want my son's girlfriend to trip him & if he has my husband's bandmate as a teacher we want him to flunk him) - LOL!

My husband just called me back as he has received several calls from friends who have read the same (condensed) article in the Chicago Sun Times! My husband was congratulating me for my "press." I said, "Yeah, bad press." He claims no press is bad press.

I can just see a fsbo or expired I have contacted reading the article & thinking, "If she was incompetent enough to let her domain name expire why would I want to work with her?" Hopefully, most people won't understand the gist of the article.

I was going to post the forum thread but either the site is down or gone (can't imagine it's gone as it seemed like it was well established). I'll post it if I the site goes back up (maybe they lost their domain name).

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Good Lord, it's Déjà Vu all over again Judy.

One of my local friends and I were talking about me doing him a site for his former NASCAR business.

The impetus for the conversation was an article he had read in the WSJ, yours.

How freaky!

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I'm a local celebrity! I was on a local radio station (WGN am) along with the guy that scooped up my domain name (he got more "voice time" than me because the dj was on my side & wanted to point fingers at the other guy). Actually, the kid came off pretty good & they were nice to him.

However, they did try to get him to admit it wasn't a very ethical thing to do. And he also admitted that he purchased my url because it was so high in the serps.

My husband recorded the interview although I haven't listened to it yet. I was running around trying to get away from my granddaughter who was not "being quiet while gramma is on the phone" this time. I was waiting for all the dogs to start barking. I even ran out in the cold without a coat for a second while talking.

I even heard from an agent in San Diego who caught this article explaining everything. This article was actually better than the original one I had read and much better than the extremely edited ones that are in the local rags. At least they printed my new url (although I didn't get a link - darn).

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Southwest Chicago Suburbs Real Estate is an affordable area with close access to downtown Chicago. Money Magazine says that Orland Park real estate is one of the best places to live in the U.S. Next door you can find Tinley Park homes for sale and get Orland Park amenities at a more affordable price.

You're not the only one that has lost a domain name... I was a moron and neglected to renew my own name and ended up losing it... now it is some cellular accessories web site with a contact name the same as mine. ugh.

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Aaron

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