A recent discovery marks the end of an era for domainers.
In what appears to be a sad discovery, the entire skeleton of the last surviving sample of Domainus Terminus – or “end user domain buyer” – has been recovered inside an old well in Hicksville, Missouri.
Known for their nomadic lifestyle, large families of the Domainus Terminus species occupied most of the Great Plains of Midwest America until the mid 2000’s – often traveling as south as Florida in search of investment food.
Ostensibly avoiding the big conferences where domainers gathered in order to peddle their wares and boast about capturing a live sample of the Domainus Terminus, this species is now extinct.
Domainus Terminus represents the ultimate dream of every domainer. No live samples have been observed in the wild since 2005, although scientific publications such as DNJournal often present bits of information leading to the conclusion that the species survived in small groups until as late as 2008.
Nowadays, the cold climate of the economy prevents domainer explorers, entrepreneurs, minisite gold-diggers and other such snake oil salesmen to research the forests of North Carolina in search for footprints of Domainus Terminus and thus restore hope for surviving members of this species.
Meanwhile, the US Government has officially declared the species to be extinct, along with the dodo bird and virgin college students.
It will be a while before domain scientists will be able to clone the species and thus revive the extinct creature directly from its DNA. Until that happens, domainers will flock to domain conferences, trading their virtual property among themselves, fondly remembering Domainus Terminus and its contribution to the global forest economy.
In my back yard all along, damn wish I would of known:)
Same here.
I knew that guy.
That’s what happens when Domainus Terminus gets hunted down as a sport.
Look.
I’m sorry.
It was an accident,.
Sort of.
The Domainus Terminus kept making low ball offers on my domains listed on Sedo.
I explained to him many times that his $60 offer would net me just $10 after Sedo’s $50
minimum commission.
He didn’t care.
I finally stopped responding to his offers.
But that didn’t stop him.
Using my personal info from WhoIs, Domainus Terminus bombarded me with $60
domain offers through daily phone calls and emails .
Sometimes he’d offer just $50.
I disconnected my phone and changed my email address.
Not good enough.
Domainus Terminus visited my home address and started making his low ball offers in person.
I couldn’t take it anymore.
I know a Cleaner, who “takes care of problems “.
I traded several of my better .COMs for the Cleaner ‘s help solving my problem.
The Cleaner was just supposed to rough up and threaten Domainus Terminus but hey,
accidents happen.
While negotiating with the Cleaner, I had Bruce Marler’s Missouri.me site on my computer screen.
That might explain how Domainus Terminus ended up in Bruce’s back yard.
I’ll ask the Cleaner about that next time I see him.
And that’s a story you’ll only find on DomainGang.com
Patrick, you just wrote domain history. While Rick Schwartz is busy talking about “deepthroat” audio, you’re providing us with some amazing play by play from the last breathing moments of this extinct species.
Simply awesome.
I think that you might be a little premature in your emasculation of the Domainus Terminus species. I have received a report that one was spotted shopping at Palmsprings.com over the Thanksgiving weekend.
If the U.S. Government has declared the Domainus Terminus officially extinct, that would mean that there are about a million still around.
Howard – The Hawaiian shirt is a typical outfit of Domainus Floridanensis – a species that closely mimics the behavior of Domainus Terminus by acting as a broker. Unfortunately, it never makes any purchases or sales.
Richard – You might be right after all. They might have declared it extinct to prevent others from monetizing the traffic.