Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

#11

Post by LinuxBender » Thu, Feb 02, 2017, 11:44 PM UTC

Being a geek, I would have pre-registered the .net, .org and .com for many variations of any business I might start up, so there would be no need to pay a lot. I've seen people shaken down due to lack of hind-sight.

I would pay a lot to buy .org and .com (the TLD's themselves) but they won't sell them to me.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

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Post by iends » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 12:56 AM UTC

I had to pay $1000 to a squatter to get my own personal name.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 3:42 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

#14

Post by stevenhubertron » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 4:55 AM UTC

$2,500 and would not do it again.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

#15

Post by ohashi » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 5:18 AM UTC

Most expensive, $8,500. Not sure if it was worth it yet, time will tell. I would certainly pay lots for a domain though again. I bought and sold them as a business, I'm comfortable with paying a premium for a good domain.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

#16

Post by skiltz » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 5:26 AM UTC

stevenhubertron wrote: post #14

$2,500 and would not do it again.

Why not?

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

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Post by wapz » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 5:43 AM UTC

skiltz wrote: post #16

stevenhubertron wrote: post #14

$2,500 and would not do it again.

Why not?

I'm guessing the domain doesn't bring customers. Your product brings the customers.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

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Post by wapz » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 5:47 AM UTC

rsweeney21 wrote: post #9

We paid $12 for the .co and lost tons of business from potential customers trying to email us at the .com. We finally caved and paid $9,000 for the .com. It's been 100% worth it for our business to have the .com.

Do you think the loss of business was partially because your company chose .co instead of something else like .io? I could see myself mistaking .co with .com but not .io.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

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Post by TomBeckman » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 7:35 AM UTC

$5000. Use a domain broker like sedo.com to negotiate so the seller doesn't know who you are and how significant the domain name is to you. Bought several sub-$2000 domains this way. Don't assume that the broker can find the domain owner if it's a years-old registration.

Re: Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?

#20

Post by calbear81 » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 8:11 AM UTC

$50K for a company I was working for. It's a 7 letter english word, animal, and was the brand for an ecommerce company that was shutting down but had a lot of history behind it.