You Deserve A Good Paddling

I don’t do standup paddling. I have nothing against it, but I have no time.

A while back I tried to help a local company by purchasing a domain name for their existing website. For whatever reason they did not take advantage of it and I decided to sell the domain name to someone else.

We have a local Facebook group which allows you to buy and sell items and seems to be run by a website design company. They offer websites for what I consider a very expensive price. I tried to post the domain name sale there but the posting never showed up. Also, since that company also charges $200 a month for services I offer at less than $100 a year, I was concerned that this guy would grab the name and resell it himself for gross profit.

I decided to offer the domain name at a reasonable $40 (the cost to purchase an unused name is about $12), so I though that was reasonable.

I contacted a couple local paddle board and surf shops but they did not jump at the chance for a simple domain name. A quick Google search turned up the perfect spot for this name.

The domain name is KonaPaddle.Com and was just purchased by KonaOne, a Swedish company. The whole transaction took only a couple of house from the time I contacted them to the time I pointed the domain to their existing site and gave them info on how to complete the porting to their own hosting company.

I feel I did the right thing in keeping the cost reasonable and finding the right owner.

So in a small way, I guess I am part of the paddle board community now.