In June 2013, a friend and I started an event series called Break the Bubble, which is geared towards helping Minnesotans make new friends.

Of course, somebody already owned the domain, but thanks to a whois lookup, I was able to figure out the owner’s email.

I shot him a message…and to my surprise, he wrote back. Below is the story of how we ended up buying breakthebubble.com, in exchange for a $60 box of chocolates.

Note that his name has been changed for confidentiality purposes.

On 8/16/13, I wrote: