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Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/ http://www.baseball.com/, the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the arti

Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/ http://www.baseball.com/, the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the article.

johnward 11y ago
I lost interest half way through. It seems strange to me to hold on to a domain name when someone is offering almost 1mil for it.
- wnevets 11y ago
  I'm sure the owner is thinking the MLB makes billions, a couple more mil wouldn't hurt them.
  - johnward 11y ago
    It really seems like they have no interest in selling it at all. It's more of a personal attachment that they identify with that domain name.
- Glyptodon 11y ago
  If you don't need money there's not really any reason to sell something for it.
  - johnward 11y ago
    I guess the "not needing money" part is something I've never experienced.
  - larrys 11y ago
    I deal in this industry. It's not always about needing the money or not needing it. It about gambling that the that offer of 1 million actually could be 2 million. You'd be surprised at how even ordinary people think when they get wind that they have something valuable. Fun Fact: I bought a domain name for a reasonable price off a patent troll company. Was actually one of the easier and most surprising transactions I ever did.
    - johnward 11y ago
      These guys down sound like squatters. They just have had the domain their entire lives and don't really care to sell it.
umanwizard 11y ago
I thought it would be about mlb.com, which I remember Major League Baseball not owning for many years. I guess this is a recurring problem for them. Not sure why.
- bnycum 11y ago
  The article somewhat goes into that. They were late to get online. Luckily they were able to get the mlb.com domain for free from Morgan Lewis. They didn't start to get team domains until 2000. Luckily MLBAM has been leading the way technology wise for quiet a few years. They've been so successful that they have partnered with WWE, PGA, and NHL. The whole operation to secure team domains has been so stealth I learned in that article that MLBAM was able to finally secure my favorite team's domain earlier this year, Rangers.com. All the ads at the ballpark still refer to their old domain, texasrangers.com.
dpeck 11y ago
The owner of baseball.com, Relfex Publishing, has come often while I was searching for a good domain name. They have quite a few domains like this and they aren't interested in selling at all. And as frustrating as that is, it is much better than other squatters in the space who try to treat the domains they have as farmland to be worked and leased off to companies for temporary use. Its the system we have, and it is what it is. In a lot of ways it is disappointing how closely it mirrors physical land use and ownership.
- j_s 11y ago
  The one I immediately think of is steam.com. These situations aren't going to change until whoever is making the decision dies.

Nowhere did they mention http://www.baseball.com/ http://www.baseball.com/, the website I would have guessed was referred to by the title before I read the article.

johnward 11y ago

I lost interest half way through. It seems strange to me to hold on to a domain name when someone is offering almost 1mil for it.

wnevets 11y ago
I'm sure the owner is thinking the MLB makes billions, a couple more mil wouldn't hurt them.
- johnward 11y ago
  It really seems like they have no interest in selling it at all. It's more of a personal attachment that they identify with that domain name.
Glyptodon 11y ago
If you don't need money there's not really any reason to sell something for it.
- johnward 11y ago
  I guess the "not needing money" part is something I've never experienced.
- larrys 11y ago
  I deal in this industry. It's not always about needing the money or not needing it. It about gambling that the that offer of 1 million actually could be 2 million. You'd be surprised at how even ordinary people think when they get wind that they have something valuable. Fun Fact: I bought a domain name for a reasonable price off a patent troll company. Was actually one of the easier and most surprising transactions I ever did.
  - johnward 11y ago
    These guys down sound like squatters. They just have had the domain their entire lives and don't really care to sell it.

umanwizard 11y ago

I thought it would be about mlb.com, which I remember Major League Baseball not owning for many years. I guess this is a recurring problem for them. Not sure why.

bnycum 11y ago
The article somewhat goes into that. They were late to get online. Luckily they were able to get the mlb.com domain for free from Morgan Lewis. They didn't start to get team domains until 2000. Luckily MLBAM has been leading the way technology wise for quiet a few years. They've been so successful that they have partnered with WWE, PGA, and NHL. The whole operation to secure team domains has been so stealth I learned in that article that MLBAM was able to finally secure my favorite team's domain earlier this year, Rangers.com. All the ads at the ballpark still refer to their old domain, texasrangers.com.

dpeck 11y ago

The owner of baseball.com, Relfex Publishing, has come often while I was searching for a good domain name. They have quite a few domains like this and they aren't interested in selling at all. And as frustrating as that is, it is much better than other squatters in the space who try to treat the domains they have as farmland to be worked and leased off to companies for temporary use. Its the system we have, and it is what it is. In a lot of ways it is disappointing how closely it mirrors physical land use and ownership.

j_s 11y ago
The one I immediately think of is steam.com. These situations aren't going to change until whoever is making the decision dies.