Tuesday, October 02, 2007

selling the city?

I received an email yesterday from someone I'd never heard of, offering to buy my domain (www.cityoflegends.com).

The odd thing was they didn't approach me at my registry email (I keep my business separate from my writing)...oh, and the price. They were offering to take my domain I've possessed for a decade, which receives thousands of hits a month and has been synonymous with my writings (and is linked to from hundreds, if not thousands, of sites as well as is the spine for my primary email accounts on the web and that of a few fellow Bohemians and if referred to in nearly all of the acknowledgements and liner notes for my CDs and nooks) for the awe-inspiring compensation of

(gasp) sixty dollars!

I'd be insulted, but this showed me nothing wrong with me or my poetry, but either some arrogance or ignorance on the part of the requestor (I hope it is not the people from the multi-million dollar retirement village in Florida that chose to use the same name (City of Legends), as I would think that (a) they have money and (b) they understand the notion of branding).

I replied that I was not interested and then delated the email. I was bemused. Most likely some web porn operator looking for a catchy name for his staged amateur sex tapes (that's the other thing, the person taking over the domain would end up connecting with my readers due to the good will and connectivity I have built up over the last decade).

Sorry guys, I have my price...but you need to go further than the nearest 7-11 to pull that kind of cash.

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