I feel like the take away from this is 1.) start with a .com domain and 2.) choose a company name that is cheap to buy for a domain.
How and why we acquired our .com domain
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#23Honestly the key is to be patient. Put it a low-ball offer on a .com you want then wait. They'll reject initially, then they'll contact you again every couple months to see if you're still interested. Keep the low-ball offers going, maybe increasing by very small increments. Eventually you will catch them in a moment where the seller is desperate and then you strike a deal. I got a 6 letters .com domain for $3k down…
I got one of my personal domains back for $100 after years of various different squatters asking between $2k and $10k for it. "Literally no one else will ever buy this particular domain from you, take the win" finally worked.
Curious, how’d you lose it? Expired cc?
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#24That is a great and very transparent write-up, I'd say the best I've read in years. Usually companies don't disclose the final price. My dream .com domain name is squatted by somebody in Korea owning 10.000s of domains. One year they forgot to pay their registration, 'whois' printed 'overdue' (can't remember the exact words). I tried to register, backorder, everything. Nothing worked sadly.
I've been looking at the domain lifecycle lately, and it can take a couple of months after the expiration date for it to actually become available for registration. I'd check with whois on the command line.
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#25lol I saw the domain of the article and was definitely curious why OP wanted advaitruia.com so bad
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#26Great write up. I paid $3500 w/ broker fees (sedo.com) for my (lastname.com) about 11 years ago. Seemed super expensive at the time, but more and more "professional individuals" (lawyers, doctors, etc) that share my last name were appearing on the internet despite the rarity of it, so I knew I had to act fast.
No regrets! ...and the rest of my family loves having first@last email addresses :).
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, that was not clear. It was a typo and I've corrected it to $8K (this was for the domain). Thank you for pointing this out The broker was $1-1.5K
I still do not get it. >That’s exactly what we did. We had a brief discussion on broker fees, our domain broker had already proved himself and we liked him. The feeling was mutual, we got a great deal on his broker fees and paid $8,000 all said and done. If you paid 8,000 for the domain and 1,000 or 1,500 for the broker, you paid 9,000 or 9,500, all said and done.
Correct. I've edited it to say that clearly (finally). Sorry about all the confusion here
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#28lol I saw the domain of the article and was definitely curious why OP wanted advaitruia.com so bad
Haha, that was a straightforward purchase. I dont think i've ever been able to find another advaitruia (advait on its own is an uncommon name)
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#29> There was no doubt that .com has a better brand than .io.
Ten years ago, there was still some merit to this. Given changes to browsers and search engines, I believe this has a "vanity license plate" level of importance today.
> There is no definite way of isolating the importance of the .com but it is likely to have played a part.
"We have no way of knowing if traffic would be as high or higher if we stuck with .io, but it definitely would not have been."
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got one of my personal domains back for $100 after years of various different squatters asking between $2k and $10k for it. "Literally no one else will ever buy this particular domain from you, take the win" finally worked.
Curious, how’d you lose it? Expired cc?
IIRC (it was long ago): Expired card, broke college student, procrastination, and at a time where domain squatting was somewhat new.