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This afternoon, DomainerCon buddy Ryan MacDonald IM’s me..

“some good .us domains coming up today on TDNAM”..

now, was I researching .us domains to potentially buy? No.

Am I a lush regarding interesting domain opportunities? Yes.

so, the sliding doors moment begins.

I begin culling through the names.

He was right, there were some interesting ones.

I throw 20 into my ‘watch’ account.

then auctions begin.

spyware.us sells for $3,030

orchid.us sells for $455

autoloan.us sells for $2,484

all very interesting, but since I’m on a very strong Geo kick, I pass.

except for one.

ames.us

good ole Ames Iowa.

but, as I tend to have a short attention span, I begin plugging away on my other Geo domain, nearly forgetting the auction, Ryan drops me an IM..

“Are you going to bid on Ames.us?”

prior to that moment, I had forgotten.

But now I’m interested again.

There’s about 5 minutes left. The bid’s around $300 or so.

It begins to move. Jumps to 400 or so.

“Screw it. I’ll throw a bid in”, I think.

so I do.

Immediately outbid.

“Hmmm.. I wonder what this bidder’s top bid is…”

so I keep bidding.

up

and up

until I get lead position with a bid of $595.

Now, understand, I’m in a position to win this domain, a domain 4 hours ago I had no realization of, and no interest in.

So, I’m at $595.

the bids creep up, but it’s a high enough bid to Win.

So I’m now the proud owner of Ames.us.

At first I wanted to cuss at Ryan for getting me into this (which I actually did through IM). But I actually should thank him, cause, imo, it’s a pretty neat name. So, thanks. One free wine spritzer at DomainerCon, Ryan, on me.

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