Almost 3 years ago to the day, I wrote about a hilarious threat I had received concerning dennis.com. A fellow by the name of Richard Dennis got all blustery and threatened to sue me since he was “a US company, who have the rights to this domain.”. After a bit of netsleuthing, I found out that the guy was actually a backpacker from the UK.
Incredibly, the same guy emailed me again today:
Patrick,
How’s is going ?
I see you recently renewed the domain Dennis.com, but you done seem to
be using this site.Do you have any plans for it ?
Would you consider selling it ?
Regards,
Richard
Contact@RichardDennis.com
So I dashed off this reply:
Richard:
When I saw your message, I was sure your name rang a bell. Sure
enough, you’re the same Richard Dennis who made some ridiculous legal
threats about dennis.com a few years ago! Kudos for the persistance,
but minus 10,000 points for a total lack of tact and style.
Until August, 2009 Richard!
update:
From Richard’s site, emphasis mine:
That richard dennis has to be the biggest blow hard on the planet. Soon to be dennis.com….What a sally.
Posted by: Patrick dot com lover at August 3, 2006 9:34 AMYou are the owner of all coveted domain names… all the way back to your famous run-in with the WB over the rights to ‘animaniacs.com,’ eh?
Posted by: scd at August 4, 2006 6:15 AM