Human Errors Happen

Last year, I won a non-.com auction at Dynadot. The domain name may be considered a typo of another word word, but this “typo” has 100+/- TLDs registered, which is what caught my attention. In fact, at least 15 of those TLDs are developed, so there’s quite a bit of usage around this brandable term.

Shortly after buying the domain name for less than $20, I listed it for sale on Afternic. Somehow, I mistyped the domain name and listed the correctly spelled non -.com domain name. Apparently, when I later searched my Afternic account for the domain name and didn’t see it, I added it a second time – this time with the actual domain name I bought and own.

Months later, I awoke to a congratulatory email from Afternic informing me I sold a domain name via LTO. The endorphins flowed for a few minutes, until I went to Dynadot to retrieve the authorization code for a transfer. I looked through my account and my heart sunk. I realized I must have inadvertently listed the wrong domain name for sale.

Whenever I receive an email from Afternic asking me to authorize a listing and it’s a domain name I don’t have listed for sale there, it irritates me. “Who the f is trying to list my domain name for sale,” I think to myself. On the rare occasion when a seller backs out of a sale on a platform, I think, “what kind of jackass sells a domain name and then backs out of the deal?”

Well, apparently I was that jackass to someone.

Human errors happen. People make mistakes. I screwed up and feel badly about it. This was a small deal, but I am frustrated that I made an error. Hopefully the person on the other end showed some grace to Afternic, GoDaddy, or their registrar when the news was broken to them.

This is a good reminder to me of the importance of being cautious when listing domain names for sale. I don’t recall ever listing an incorrect domain name for sale, but it can happen. It’s also a good reminder to be kind when things happen out of the ordinary. Perhaps it was simply a human error.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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  1. I recently managed to book a 27 hour layover in Munich. I don’t know why Expedia would ever list that as an option. Cost me a couple hundred to fix that error.

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