How I Got My Very First Domain Back: lfbear.com

Ten years ago, by pure chance, someone gifted me a .com domain. Even though domains weren’t super expensive back then, as a broke student, there was no way I was going to splurge on buying one myself.

However, they only paid for one year. When it expired, I couldn’t afford to renew it, so it got snapped up by domain squatters.

Later, after I started working, even though I had the money to register other domains, I could never quite forget my very first domain. This year, I finally bit the bullet and bought it back from a foreign domain broker.

I won’t bore you with the details of the process, but it involved a lot of haggling (turned out foreigners like a good story too!). In the end, I managed to get it back at a reasonable price.

I’m so thrilled. I’ll be using this domain going forward. It feels like a true return to my roots.

P.S. Honestly, foreign domain brokers seem a lot more reasonable than some of the local ones here.

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