A while back, I spotted a domain which looked promising but was already registered. I visited the site to see what or who was using it, only to see it was just sitting idle. "What a waste," I thought. After further investigation, the domain was for sale on a popular domain-parking service (Sedo). I've dealt with Sedo before and for a domain like this, I wasn't expecting any offers under $2,000 to be given the slightest bit of notice. (Note, I don't think the domain is worth that much just the offers / requests at Sedo often seem ridiculous to the average joe like me.) And so began my quest to acquire the domain on a tight budget.

The WHOIS report said that the domain was soon to expire, and was registered with GoDaddy so my first step was to go register an account over there (I primarily use NameCheap and have a couple at Registerfly but hadn't used GoDaddy previously). Why? Because the domain was registered there, and it might be heresay or hard fact but I heard GoDaddy can grab their own expired domains sooner than any other backorder site (like Pool.com). After signing up, I went through the process of backordering the domain (not easy due to GoDaddy's unintuitive way of doing things) and then it was just a matter of paying the fees and waiting.

After a while, I got an email from GoDaddy stating that my domain was not captured and a quick check showed a new, different, owner. I was gutted! Alas, life goes on and I soon forgot about GoDaddy and the domain. Today, I got a nice little email again from GoDaddy but this time informing me that the capture was successful! Carefully checking that this wasn't some lame spam attempt, I signed in to my GoDaddy account and there it is -- I own the domain!

So, now to start thinking about what on earth to do with it. Oh and I'm sure you've noticed that I haven't mentioned its name yet. The domain was wiibb.com (for "Wii Bulletin Board", obviously).