The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
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The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
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#2Disappointing. There's no discussion of how much they paid, or how they actually got their domain name. From the article, it makes it seem as though they are in a lease to buy situation.
Re: The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
#3Three things jump out at me in that post:
1. Using any online 'appraisal service' or what have you as a pricing guideline is not something you can depend on. There have been numerous tools like this and sometimes their results are so wrong it is funny.
2. People who own domains get do get a lot of mail, often of the "let me scam you" variety. Standing out from these is the trick.
3. A good domain name is worthless without good content. Don't pick a bad name, by all means, but what lives at that name is much more important than the name imho.
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#4I sold RebelSpirits.com for $500 to a winery business owner last year. We scanned and emailed each other our drivers licenses and he sent a check for $500 in the mail. I released the domain to him after I deposited the check. His check was from a major bank.
Can some one tell me if my method was smart or stupid? What could have gone wrong other than check fraud?
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#5It would be cool if you were more reserved with your usage of "squatted" to describe domain names. Amateurs commonly use it to mean "he has something I want," but in domainer lingo, a squatted domain is used specifically for trademark infringement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro... .
I think it's an important distinction to make when describing domain name disputes.
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#6My suggestion would be to seek out a generic tld other than .com (unless you have a lot of money to burn). Here's Google's list of what they consider to be a generic tld:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en
I recently picked up a useful .fm three letter domain for a new service. It perfectly matched the service, and I think the negatives of alternative generic tld's can be overcome very well these days.
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#7I sold RebelSpirits.com for $500 to a winery business owner last year. We scanned and emailed each other our drivers licenses and he sent a check for $500 in the mail. I released the domain to him after I deposited the check. His check was from a major bank. Can some one tell me if my method was smart or stupid? What could have gone wrong other than check fraud?
If someone had stolen ID _and_ checkbook, it might not have been the person you thought you were dealing with. I don't know if you looked into the winery / called it or whatever, but I'd have wanted some way to establish with fair certainty who I was dealing with beforehand. ( and probably would have accepted a check like you did given the amount. )
A surprising number of people don't know a check can be pulled back out of your account weeks after the deposit. Paypal or credit cards aren't much better. So far as I know using escrow, wire transfer or bank draft are the only "sure" ways payment can't be revoked
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#8My suggestion would be to seek out a generic tld other than .com (unless you have a lot of money to burn). Here's Google's list of what they consider to be a generic tld: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en I recently picked up a useful .fm three letter domain for a new service. It perfectly matched the service, and I think the negatives of alternative generic tld's can be overcome very well th…
It depends a lot on how you expect people to come to your site and the cost of losing them versus the cost of the better domain. If you run a TV ad for example.co , you can expect an order of magnitude more people to visit example.com instead.
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#9My suggestion would be to seek out a generic tld other than .com (unless you have a lot of money to burn). Here's Google's list of what they consider to be a generic tld: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en I recently picked up a useful .fm three letter domain for a new service. It perfectly matched the service, and I think the negatives of alternative generic tld's can be overcome very well th…
It depends a lot on how you expect people to come to your site and the cost of losing them versus the cost of the better domain. If you run a TV ad for example.co , you can expect an order of magnitude more people to visit example.com instead.
This is overwhelmingly true, and even documented for .co unfortunately. I'm hoping over the next year as new tlds come on board, tld awareness/education goes up. Don't get me wrong, I don't think any will make a dent in .com in any reasonable timeframe as far as value and familiarity go, but at least help erode the 'all websites end in .com' mantra that so many hold.
Secondarily, it'd be nice to watch domain squatters 'fortunes' dwindle to nothing. I wish icann did more to enforce rules against it, yet i'm not sure what such a solution could be.
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#10My suggestion would be to seek out a generic tld other than .com (unless you have a lot of money to burn). Here's Google's list of what they consider to be a generic tld: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en I recently picked up a useful .fm three letter domain for a new service. It perfectly matched the service, and I think the negatives of alternative generic tld's can be overcome very well th…
It depends a lot on how you expect people to come to your site and the cost of losing them versus the cost of the better domain. If you run a TV ad for example.co , you can expect an order of magnitude more people to visit example.com instead.
I agree with that in general. I'd say that if you've got TV money (or similar) to spend, your domain buying options are a lot wider than most startups. And if your service gets to that level of success, you can at least attempt to buy your .com.
We're also probably at the point now, where even if your alt domain service becomes highly successful, there's a good chance the .com won't be available no matter what (short of a million dollar purchase, either due to a serious business owning it, or ransom).