Turns out the Nets.com trolls are a 69
The Barclays crew isn't getting Nets.com anytime soon. (USATSI)The New York Times finally found her. The person who has been trolling the Nets for years with their ownership of Nets.com and the subsequent redirect of the site to websites for the Mets, the Mavericks, and other hilarious troll efforts, is a 69-year-old woman in Sante Fe and her son, the Times reports.
Her name is Jane Hill, and she bought the website as part of a bundle from a deal with an Internet subscriber service for $20,000. She's demanding $5 million for it. Which is pretty reasonable. I mean, she's seen the Nets' roster.
So she and her son have been trolling the team forever. The Nets say they're not going to cave to their demands, saying 'Our fans know our website is BrooklynNets.com' according to the Times. Which is definitely not true. I even go to Nets.com still by accident.
You wonder why owner Mikhail Prokhorov doesn't just set up a dummy company to purchase her Internet provider service outright. Deal would probably be for less.
It's weird that the Nets will spend (and lose) so much money but refuse to cave on this. You figure a $2 million offer would probably secure it. Then again, the Hills are likely in no big hurry. They can squat on that site forever. (I have a former colleague who still has the domain name to rumored expansion teams that never came to fruition).
That's the thing with domain squatting. It's a long-term game.
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