This week, in fact, just a few minutes ago.  Some guy named Jessie from 126.com tried to sell us a domain related to one we already owned for $89.95 (we have .org and .net, he wanted to sell us .com).  OK, then.  Depending on circumstances $89.95 might not have been a bad deal.  So we pop over to our friends at NameCheap and pick it up for $8.88... a 90% -- yep NINETY PERCENT -- saving.

After we have the domain safe in hand... (probably not safe to have the .COM TLD for one of our ORG sites pointing to an S&F site...)  we do a little research.  126.com is obviously somewhere in Asia... the home page is in Chinese... and "Jessie" is probably Wang Dong or something.  The link in Jessie's e-mail points to a place called dommerce.com ... says they sell "Premium" domain names.  "Premium" must mean we snark the net for unused TLDs of pseudo-popular sites.  The name we JUST BOUGHT for $8.88 is FOR SALE for $89.95.  In the fine print, it says if we pay $89.95 via credit card to dommerce.com, they will TELL US HOW WE CAN INITIATE THE TRANSFER.  Wow!  What a FREAKIN' DEAL THAT IS!  We assume that the $89.95 will give us information that we can already find in any decent whois database about how we can pay some domain squatter an unrealistic sum of money.

For that, we present the coveted Parasite of the Week award to BOTH 126.com and dommerce.com!