just curious what a reasonable figure is for a domain like matthewsmith.com or davidrandall.com, guess it probably depends if your name is common or not?
Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com
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#2Assuming your first+last is already being parked by someone? Was able to get mine at a registrar, but it was my nickname where I paid a "premium" about 7 years ago... five letters and I really wanted it. Negotiated a guy from $3000 to $300. More specifically, his first response was $3000 then I waited three months and offered $300. He had a formal landing page.. no different from hugedomains.com - I've noticed for non-brandable "premium" domains these services are trying to get $1-2k for personal domains.
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#3I have a relatively uncommon last name, so I got my domain name at the standard price for a domain name ($11/year at Dynadot)
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#4I've been using nbolt.io even though I own neillbolton.com. Is the .com worth it?
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#5I reached out to the owner of my name.com and we agreed on $100. He wanted $4000 but when he realized that I just wanted to host a personal site he was happy taking $100.
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#6I have an unusual last name - firstinitiallastname.com was about $10 per year.
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#7Mine was far too expensive, so I spent three years getting a Ph.D. and bought drtomallen.com instead.
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#8both my first and last name are very rare so I could get it for $10/yr
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#9got mine in around 2005 for about $8 a year
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#10My last name is shared with about 8 people in my country, so I managed to snag lastname.ca and now my email is firstname@lastname.ca (but I still own firstname@firstnamelastname.com which is a mouthful.) lastname.com is parked but it keeps getting renewed shortly before it expires. Both domains cost around $10/yr