nestle.co.uk
In 1994 I was building websites, a bit early on in the game. One of our clients was Nestlé, and after I'd told them that they might like to register the URL nestle.co.uk (which was available) I had a look at what else was free. We also did work for Mars, and mars.co.uk was unclaimed, as well as a few other planets. Some of our clients were in healthcare, and though nurse.com was taken, nurse.net was free as I recall. And so on. I thought it might be an idea to register a few of the more interesting ones for myself, to rent out or sell later, but then work came in and I never got around to it.
If I had, I would now be drinking my beer on my beach on my island…
(enile, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 19:59, 22 replies)

nurse.net?
Who uses .net? Seriously, who?
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 20:52, closed)

.net It's a good framework to work on. tee hee

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 20:56, closed)

Hahahayeah. Loads of people bought islands by sitting on trademark domain names.
Wait ... I don't mean loads of people, do I? I mean absolutely nobody ever. You dick.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 22:10, closed)

Oi, Doc! Shams! Shamboooooooooo!
Go on, tell us about the time you missed the opportunity to punch someone in their worthless wordy throat for a post they made on QOTW.

Oh no, wait....That didn't happen, did it? EVER.
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 23:42, closed)

Islands
Thanks shambolic internet sage, you've set my tortured mind at rest.
(enile, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 1:14, closed)

if you'd been a couple of years earlier and registered a bunch of two or three letter .coms you could be driving your Ferrari off the back of your yacht into Monte Carlo
but that's like saying 'oh if I'd bought Microsoft shares at threepence each ...'
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 12:23, closed)

Your recent edit to add 'trademark'
'Nestle' is a common word ('Nestlé' is the trademarked name), 'Mars' a planet and 'nurse' a job description. I'd have been well within my rights to register any of them. Remember 'apple.co.uk'? That was owned by the illustration agency until the computer company recently made them an offer sufficiently generous to persuade them to relinquish it.
(enile, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 16:49, closed)

Yeah, that offer went along the lines of "give us it or we'll bankrupt you with a frivolous lawsuit that we can afford to drag out for years."

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 17:01, closed)

leave the poor dopper alone
he genuinely thinks he missed out on a fortune
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 17:05, closed)

8" cock
You're never poor with a dopper.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dopper
(enile, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 0:33, closed)

subject
I like that you use the Subject: line for an actual subject. Very 1990s.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 9:46, closed)

No. Especially none of these lot
thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/08/13/15-of-the-most-expensive-domains-of-all-time/
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 9:55, closed)

You'd even get some change.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 10:51, closed)

Scotland?
And freeze to death?

www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/saba-bay-parcels
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 10:54, closed)

Not bad, but if you can't simultaneously freeze to death whilst getting eaten alive by clouds of midges, where's the fun?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 11:33, closed)

Yerr. Lots of company trademarks in that list. Derp.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 12:11, closed)

Nice. Added the word 'trademark' 8hrs later.
We all saw.

You poor thing, it must be hard being made to look so foolish, so regularly.
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 14:05, closed)

not my fault you can't read, bedsit boy

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 14:37, closed)

That last one is fucking retarded.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 13:27, closed)

some people just can't be trusted with tens of millions of dollars, bd

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 14:20, closed)

Two jobs ago...
I was a DNS admin when a three letter .com fell into our lap by acquisition. I checked the value on an estimator and it put it at $250,000. A little bit of temptation there. They weren't using it for much.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 23:25, closed)

I was aware of a guy who was arrested and sent to prison
He was arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant in one US state for skipping a suspended sentence in another. In the US this means a painfully slow extradition proceeding while locked up, getting extradited and then serving the remainder of his sentence in another prison.

He was a collosal tit who rubbed up lots of people on the internet the wrong way so it soon became public knowledge that he was inside.

I put an immediate bagsy on a prominent domain he owned using a domain registrar, waited for it to expire and got it. The mad bastard (for he was very mad in the head) came out of jail about 3 years later demanding me to hand his domain. He even accused me of stealing it although he had allowed it to expire. After reading his pathetic rationale for this (that his lawyer had betrayed him etc.) and his threats I wrote a reasoned timeline of events suggesting he had ample opportunity to renew. Then I got a rambling but slightly conciliatory email offering to give me a sub domain on his domain if I handed it back. Fat chance. I just ignored that email.

Must have made 20 or 30 grand out of that site. So crime does pay, just not necessarily to the person committing it.
(MagicMoose, Wed 9 Apr 2014, 20:57, closed)