"“If the Red Sox or JetBlue had wanted that domain name, they could have bought it,” Engelman said. He said someone living in Naples bought the jetbluepark.net domain name, which routes users to a real estate website. Engelman said he never planned to approach the Red Sox or JetBlue or Lee County to resell the domain name. He owns only one other domain name: ericengelman.com, on which a photo of him at Wrigley Field can be seen and in which he tells the story of buying jetbluepark.com. Have him call me,” Kennedy said. “We can make a deal. Or maybe we can make a deal.”
Congratulations to Mike Mann who is on an unstoppable trek to sell 100,000 domain names at a profit before year's end and is well on track to succeed. He just sold DareToDiscover.com $4,000.00, bought 8/30/10 for just $8.00. This brings his weekly total to 7 ASP: $2,807 Total: $19,650.
If you can predict the future and get inside the minds of major corporations, buying domain names can be a very lucrative business. When the Red Sox and JetBlue decided they were going to build a new park together at Boston’s spring training site in Fort Myers, Fla., one would think somebody would be in charge of purchasing the appropriate domain names. Either that person fell asleep at the wheel, or everyone thought it would be safe to wait.
According to News-Press writer @DavidADorsey, a gentleman named Eric Engelman was thinking on his toes when the plans were announced JetBlue Airways Corp. would purchase the naming rights for the new complex, Engelman saw the story while watching the eveningnews.
The next day, Engelman said he opened his wife’s godaddy.com account and saw that jetbluepark.com, the domain name, was for sale.
Engelman bought it. He said he paid $8.
He decided it would be a humorous prank if he made the website redirect to Yankees.com. He was right. Go ahead and visit the page and see for yourself.
“I just thought it would be fun to have,” Engelman said.
It is certainly fun, and he’s probably going to make a few bucks off of the idea while he’s at it. Sam Kennedy, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Red Sox, first heard the news on Tuesday afternoon and had the following reaction: “We’re going to have to look into that.”
Obviously, the Red Sox and JetBlue can’t let this stand. Bravo, Eric Engelman. That’s what I call a quality prank.
Source: larrybrownsports.com photo: Amanda Inscore/news-press.com
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