"The Judge Movie" with Duval and Downey Jr - I owned that .com A Lesson and story!

Ok, so 4 years ago I registered thejudgemovie.com I don't remember exactly why. There was no book or anything or if there was, I didn't know it. Certainly no movie in the making that I knew of. I think I read in the paper there was this mobster who was called "the judge". So knowing how hollywood loves gangsters, I paid the $10. 2 years ago I get an email from someone interested in it. Private type of email. Certainly not "This is Robert Walton from Warner Brothers". First name kinda thing. Very casual. I was not experienced at selling domains then, so I probably said "for the right price" or something like that. Didn't know what was up and was guarded giving a price. Oddly, the domain was due to expire in 3 months, so I at least knew to renew it for another yr.

I then later listed it for $1500 thinking maybe something was up. I get an email again a yr later from the same guy offering $1000. I took it via SEDO so I didn't have contact with the guy really. 6 months or so later I see it was registered to Warner brothers, a few months later (now!), a movie with Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr called the The Judge is out with those 2 actors on my little $10 domain.

$10 into $1000 is a return we'd all love all day and I try not to speculate what could have or could not have regarding $$$, but I learned something from it. Either these studios do this privately so you don't soak them for big bucks or this guy just heard something was up. I don't know. The time gap between emails was strange though. I'm not big into domain speculation but sometimes I get a hunch. Just figured I share this, since it's topical as the movie is out now and if anyone ever encounters something like that in the future, maybe this will help you with some diligence. Some private little yahoo email inquiry may not be what it seems....

Nick