Multiple times per year, I receive unsolicited email from random people – typically from consumer-class email addresses – asking if my domain (this domain – getwired.com) is for sale.

To answer the question bluntly; no, it’s not for sale.

To the people who will read that and then still want to ask me if it’s for sale… effectively everything has a price, right?

I registered this domain name in Oct. 1995. That’s over 28 years ago. It was a great find even then, a great eight-letter dot com domain. But this wasn’t just a domain name I was just going to hold and never use. It was intended to be used for a cybercafe (fellow old people, you remember those, right?) A good friend and I had a plan to start this cybercafe together. However, as life often does, life threw me for a curveball and I was offered a job that moved me across the country and then within 6 months, I relocated to Seattle. So the cybercafe went from dream to dust.

But that doesn’t mean this domain name doesn’t have incredible sentimental value to me to begin with. I’ve owned it for more than half of my life. I use it daily for email (as do several other family members), and yes – I use it to host this blog that I don’t update frequently enough. But I’m working on that too.

So if you’re going to send me an unsolicited email asking if I’m selling the domain, entertain me. Amuse me. Don’t ask cold if it’s for sale with no starting offer. Start with your minimum bid and tell me what you’d be willing to pay, and bear in mind that I’ve got to shift my entire life and email addresses I’ve used for almost three decades to sell it to you.

And understand that the answer is most likely still going to be a “no”.