Woman: “The signs are up... check the Website... is it up?”
Man: “Ok... (typing on keyboard) wait a minute... this isn't the website for the new store!”
Woman: “Are you sure you typed it in correctly? www.superstoremlg.ca...”
Man: “Yeah, it's right... let's check another site... well, google's up... so is loblaw.com... hmmm...”
Woman: “Did you tell the IT guys to register the domain name and everything?”
Man: “ME? YOU were supposed to tell them!”
Woman: “Look at the last meeting it was decided that YOU were going to tell the IT guys to register the domain name.”
Man: “No, we decided that I would be sure to get the domain name printed on the big huge signs that were going to go up on the ‘Shrine of Hockey’, and YOU would make sure all the technical details were ironed out so the Website could be posted at the same time as the signs went up!”
Woman: “Shit. Aaagh.... right... dammit. What do we do now?”
Man: “Well, let's check the domain registrar... crap. some nerd's already registered it..”
Woman: “God, the sign was only up for, what, 8 hours? This is bad. This is bad.”
Man: “Relax, the days of domain name squatting are over... we can prove that we have a right to the domain name and we'll get it back.”
Woman: “It's too generic... we could always try to register ‘superstoremlg4u.ca’. Or how about ‘superstorem1g.ca’, where the "el" is a "one"?... nah, who'll type that in right... wait... who's the registrant... (typing on keyboard)... never heard of him. Maybe he's just goofing on us for not registering the domain... I don't want to go to management and tell them those huge signs have to be altered because we forgot do register the domain. That won't be a fun day.”
Man: “Well, let's give him a call and maybe he won't be a dick about this... and... maybe he'll make a condition of turning over the domain name that no-one get's raked over the coals for this... ahem... ‘oversight’...”
Woman: “One can always hope...”