Similar story: When my old band was releasing our first studio album we still didn't have a proper website set up. So I threw something together, but our guitarist (also an internerd) was supposed to register the domain. When he tried to register it, someone else had gotten it ONE DAY EARLIER. Of course, little did we know that he procrastinated until AFTER we had everything pressed/printed/shrinkwrapped/etc and the booklet had the domain in it. D'oh!

We contacted the owners, but it was some startup and they weren't willing to let go of it without at least a few thousand bucks, which wasn't worth it to us. We wound up just using a different address and hoping people would just use web-search and find us (nerdy aside: Google hadn't taken over yet ).

Best part? The start-up never ever launched. The domain was up for grabs again a couple years later (but we had gone our separate ways by then).

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