I've wanted zakmorris.com for seven years.
For most of that time, it was simply unavailable.
Someone else owned it, and there wasn't much I could do except keep an eye on it and hope that one day it would become available.
A few months ago, something changed.
The owner found me.
And then the emails started.
Interested in buying zakmorris.com?
The first offer was around $500.
I ignored it.
The next email came.
Then another.
Then another.
Not weekly.
Not monthly.
Daily.
Every day I'd get another email asking if I wanted to buy the domain.
The price kept dropping.
- $500
- $400
- $300
- $200
- Eventually around $100
The funny thing is that the constant emails had the exact opposite effect.
The harder he tried to sell it, the less interested I became in negotiating.
After all, I'd already waited seven years.
What's a little longer?
So I kept ignoring the emails.
Then something happened that I genuinely didn't expect.
After months of trying to sell me zakmorris.com, the owner let it expire.
No deal.
No negotiation.
No final "best offer".
He simply forgot to renew it.
The moment it became available, I registered it.
For the cost of a normal domain registration.
That's the part that makes me laugh.
Someone spent months trying to convince me that this domain was worth hundreds of dollars.
Then failed to spend a few quid to keep it.
I've bought domains.
I've sold domains.
I've renewed more domains than I can remember.
But this is the first time I've acquired one simply by being more patient than the person trying to sell it.
Seven years later, zakmorris.com is finally mine.
Now I just need to figure out what to build on it.