00:00 The hosts of the podcast Reply All go on an odyssey to discover who owns vacant domain names and how they end up empty in the first place.

03:04 The hosts receive a lowball offer for the domain they want to buy, longform.org, and suspect that the person behind the offer is the owner of longform.com, Michael Birkins.

05:43 Max and Aaron bid on longform.com, but the bidding war with Michael Birkins escalated to $25,000 before they decided not to buy the domain, suspecting it was a scam; however, they later discovered that there was another buyer.

08:01 Longform.com was actually sold on May 4th, days after their contact with Birkins took place, and they found the domain listed for sale on a website called Afternick for a $10,000 minimum bid alongside other domains that were much cheaper, leading them to believe that they had somehow been entered into the system as bigger fish.

11:09 Afternic, a domain name broker, did not own Longform.com and was not trying to sell it, and the fact that Longform.com was listed on their website was just a random mistake, but they were helpful in guiding the hosts through the domain resale universe.

13:42 Mark Monitor, a company that manages portfolios of domains for large corporations, bought Longform.com but refused to disclose the buyer or the sale price, leaving the hosts with no answers.

16:02 Mark Monitor sold longform.com to a Fortune 500 or Fortune 1000 company, but the sale price remains undisclosed.