Usually a company wants to find it’s way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile.
Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opposite. David & Goliath had to “settle” for DNG.com because they could not get DavidAndGoliath.com. The domain was owned by another ad agency out of Dallas.
So the current owner, Slingshot put together a bunch of ransom videos to tell David And Goliath they needed to pay up.
MediaPost reported:
A series of videos featuring two masked men are being released daily this week. In the videos, hosted on urlransom.com, we see that a poor little laptop that’s standing in for the davidandgoliath.com domain name is being held captive until David & Goliath pays up. In the second video, the two masked men…OMG…pry off the laptops keys! There will be three more videos until all is revealed or, I assume, David & Goliath pays up.
The Dallas Agency, while holding davidandgoliath.com captive and demanding David & Goliath pay up, isn’t all bad. All they want is for David & Goliath to donate to their charitable foundation.
It all turned out to be in fun and David And Goliath agreed to a charitable donation, while Slingshot agreed to transfer the domain.
When you type in DavidAndGoliath.com it currently redirects to urlransom.com but I am sure that will update soon.
Kudos to both companies on having some fun with the domain transfer.
thelegendaryjp says
This would have been a funnier story if it was really a set of ransom videos for a domain someone truly wanted to buy and not a marketing ploy.
VR says
Looks like someone wanted the domain for 17 years.
Domain says
Cool story, you get outside domaing and see some real creativity. Great stuff.
K.J.Haroon Basha says
Cheap publicity.