mouse in a room of elephants

Hey Gang!

My name is Chuck Fox and I'm new to this forum. I've got a situatio
that some of you may be interested or curious about and I also see
constructive thought regarding this matter. To that end, I've decide
to visit a few of the more relevant forums to get this message out an
seek comments and suggestions. Basically, throw this into the "court o
public opinion."

First a little background on an odd and unfathomable "David vs
Goliath" story I find myself involved with.

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, as I was relocating all of my client an
business websites to another hosting provider, I accidentally mis-type
my domain in a client email, omitting the ".com" suffix.

I usually check to make sure the links in my emails are correct b
clicking on them, and was pleasantly surprised to find it direct t
Google, with "thinkvision" as the search term.

My http://ThinkVision.com site was listed first, but what reall
surprised me was the other listing under mine that led to IBM's pres
release announcing their new product-line of flat-panel monitors.

These monitors went by the name of "ThinkVision."

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvision.html

What I'm looking for are people such as one might find on this forum t
visit my blog and --

A) Let me have it...
B) Let me know what you think...
C) Tell me where I can stick it...
D) Give IBM some shtick!

Eventually, I plan on going "global press" with this blog and could us
some ballast to make it more relevant.

If any of you have ever had any kind experience, similar or not, in th
domain name game, I'd like to hear from you. If, after visiting, you'v
got an opinion of this situation, by all means let me know about it b
commenting, or posting to the blog forum.

The home page of the blog explains this anomaly in more detail, so I'l
leave it at that and hope to hear from you. Hopefully positiv
thoughts, though negative opinion is accepted also, cuz that's th
nature of blogging.

The blog: http://tv.chuckfox.com/

If you work at IBM, don't tell anybody until I go "global."

In advance, thanks for the help. Rock On!

Best,
Chuck Fox

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

tv (AT) chuckfox (DOT) com
http://tv.chuckfox.co
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In article <7172e24a888c1e60c82f4b80d1ba63ae (AT) news (DOT) thenewsgroups.com>,
ChuckFox says...

Hey Gang!

My name is Chuck Fox and I'm new to this forum.

ILTM that you're just trying to rip IBM off. $10,000 is far more than a
fair price for the domain.

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Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php

"ChuckFox" <ChuckFox.17eitj (AT) mail (DOT) forum4designers.com> wrote

Hey Gang!

this is pretty damned lame dude.... why dont you just go get a job??

"Hywel" <hyweljenkins (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

In article <7172e24a888c1e60c82f4b80d1ba63ae (AT) news (DOT) thenewsgroups.com>,
ChuckFox says...
Hey Gang!

My name is Chuck Fox and I'm new to this forum.

ILTM that you're just trying to rip IBM off. $10,000 is far more than a
fair price for the domain.

Really now. I'm getting ready to dump some of my domains. They're up for
grabs for what I paid for them.

They offered you $10,000; you should have jumped all over it. Do you think
it's worth MORE than that? Well, it's worth what someone is willing to pay
for it. So it's arguably worth $10,000. But not a penny more. Because the
ONLY other person besides you who may conceivably want it is IBM. And
they've made it clear what they're willing to pay for it.

Try e-Bay. And let us know how well you do.

J

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Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php