How I owned Uniregistry.com for a minute.
A very bizarre thing occurred to me at exactly 4:20am Eastern, on Wednesday – or was it Thursday, October 1st. I can’t remember. Too much beer.
I was discovering the secret options of Uniregistry domain registrar, and out of feeling a bit adventurous I typed in “Uniregistry.com” and clicked the search button.
To my astonishment, Uniregistry.com was available. What were the odds?
After I added this precious domain to my cart (which could not have possibly happened if Uniregistry.com were not available) I prayed that this was actually an error.
None of that happened.
Instead, I got a beautifully crafted invoice from Uniregistry, signed by Frank Schilling, which said that the domain Uniregistry.com had been registered on my behalf.
My PayPal was charged and I was ready to go with my new domain!
I received another email shortly, welcoming me to the Uniregistry family, the domain registrar that has broken the mold among domain registrars. And I was ready to build my brand new domain, Uniregistry.com.
I was so excited that I owned Frank’s very own domain name!
But minutes – or was it seconds, I don’t remember – later, I received another notice from Uniregistry and Michael Ward. He claimed that there was a mistake and a glitch that led to me owning Uniregistry.com.
I was upset. I was in denial. I was angry to the core.
I did not believe Michael, what does he know about domain names anyhow?
All I wanted was to own Uniregistry.com for a minute.
So I started typing this article, in hope that the Times of India and other such prestigious publications would catch it and publish it.
Miracles do happen, after all, and pigs can fly.
I will let you know how it goes. Deep in my mind, and in my heart, I owned Uniregistry.com …..
This made my day!
The good ( bad?) thing about this is that Google, as a Registrar, is training on US citizens. We, Europeans, are not yet able to transfer/register domains since a US postal address is required (at least for the debit card used). So when it opens to other countries, I guess the level of errors of this kind is reduced. Let’s just hope that Registrants using Google as a Registrar haven’t faced that same problem with their domain name.
Gold
4:20am?? Sound like you were burning more than the “midnight oil”. Or maybe you were burning that too?? 🙂 Good article.
Congratulations, buddy! I am now going to move ALL my domains to Uniregistry.com… the good guy’s registry! The ‘new kid on the block’ (lol)
This article is sketchy… It’s a direct copy of a LinkedIn article this week about someone acquiring the Google.com domain. It’s almost word for word. I have a feeling these are all fabrications… Just my two cents
David – I guess you’re not familiar with parody? Not to mention, that it pokes fun at all the ridiculous claims made by the LinkedIn article.
This is a complete joke or you have become a copy cat like.
Are you telling us that you are not aware of Sanmey Ved who bought Google.com the most trafficked website’s domain name for just $12 only and not from after market.
However, if this is true, it means something is wrong with Google domain Registry.
please have the links here if truly that you have not seen the publications which is everywhere
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-owns-google-one-minute-6563791
elevator – It’s called a parody, also read http://domaingang.com/domain-news/the-man-who-didnt-really-buy-google-com-for-12/
Sanmey Ved bought nothing.
This is golden! I am surprised a lot of folks didn`t catch on. The google post was ridiculous to say the least.
I remember last year typing into the godaddy domain search an noticed a 4 letter single word .com available free to register (I can’t remember what it was but I can check my emails) I went through the entire registration process and even paid via paypal, I even had the congratulations page come up but within a couple of minutes I had an email from godaddy telling me there had been a mistake and I was going to be refunded, it was a good name and I was very disappointed
Paul
Paul – These glitches happen more often than believed. The API connecting the Registrar to the Registry sometimes fails, resulting in a bogus registration. The entire Google.com registration incident reached ridiculous proportions, especially since the very domain that supposedly changed hands, is also the Registrar that it occurred through. 😀 Hence, this parody.
PS Real articles have an “100% True” image at the bottom.
Great article very inspiring, made my heart pump with wisdom.
It also reminds me of the time I owned domaingang.com after ready a few blog posts. Yes! The domaingang.com web domain address, I felt like God for a moment.
God bless!
Shaun – Congratulations! I hope you managed to write a couple of articles.