The most valuable part of my website is my domain name. Firstly, it’s super short – it stands at a bold 4 characters long. Secondly, it represents me – I am Timothy Wong. Thirdly, it took me a long time to get it. There’s probably a few more reasons why its so valuable to me, but I guess you now understand how Timothy Wong (I) might have a close emotional bond with timw.com. Alright, enough emotional talk and boasting.
Everyday I dig through around 100 emails, spread across several accounts (personal, business, etc.). Yesterday, one particular email caught my attention. It was sent through this website’s contact form and is as follows (names and emails censored for privacy reasons):
—– Original Message —–
From: ********@*******.com
To: *@timw.com
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Contact Form: Offer for domain www.timw.comDear Timothy Wong,
I am interested in acquiring your domain, [http://www.timw.com] for US$1000 (One Thousand US Dollars). I understand that you currently have a website under this domain name, but I strongly believe that my offer is sufficient in getting you set with another domain, as well as leaving you with quite a nice sum of cash.
Please let me know what you think ASAP. I am willing to negotiate for the domain in question.
Regards,
T***** W*********
I have sold about 6 domain names in my time, but I have never even considered selling timw.com. It doesn’t matter what price you throw at me, timw.com is not available. I’m going to sit on it until I die.
P.S. Please excuse my excessive use of ‘Timothy Wong’ in the first paragraph – I’m trying to increase my search engine ranking for the keyword “Timothy Wong” 
August 13th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Vurta could do with a few more assets worth that much!
Well done!
August 14th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Tim, will you sell it to me?
August 15th, 2006 at 7:32 am
haha
this actually made me laugh!
but i BET youd sell for £1000000
xxx
August 15th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Hahah I didn’t know people wanted your domain.. and offered $1000.. actually thats not sooo much. Lol
August 16th, 2006 at 12:20 am
Timothy Wong. THE Technopreneur!
Jenn
August 18th, 2006 at 9:27 am
For you to delcine an offer of $1000 real cold cash, I would say you have no life.
August 18th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Another point:
You’re being too greedy. Would you like it if the previous owner of timw.com was like “I will never give awa timw.com!”
– it took me a long time to get it.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
myBot: Money isn’t everything, notice how I said I would not sell it for any price. If the previous owner (who had no use for the domain) said he would never give it away, I would simply move on.
Anyhow, thanks for the comments on every single post on my site!
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
He he…
I was very sad when timw.com was not available!
I have to say that timw.net is surely an even lovelier domain though
Nice site, by the way!
TW.