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The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
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Re: The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
#12I 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…
I thought wires can be rewound too?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I thought wires can be rewound too?
I think ( but don't know for certain ) that they can be reversed until the receiving bank disperses the funds. I imagine if you're dealing with enough zeros, all bets are off though.
I'd be interested in a "for sure" answer if anyone knows for certain.
Re: The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name
#14I have a two letter .ca if anyone is interested.
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#15It 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.
In general lingo, domainer = squatter.
If you bought a domain name for the sole purpose of sitting/squatting on it until you can find a buyer who will pay significantly more than you did, than you're a squatter.
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#16I have a two letter .ca if anyone is interested.
ping me. t@teddy.net
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#17I was stoked to get the two letter domain name bp.io a few years ago, and hopefully it'll be my online home forever.
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#18My 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…
Let me put this as clearly as I can. This is very bad advice. I've been in this business since 1996 and I deal with end users and customers on both the buying and selling side. For everything from a standard domain registration (at normal pricing that you can get at your registrar) to high value sales (let's say hundreds of thousands of dollars).
Anything but .com is almost always going to be problematic and will more than likely cause problems. You can get a reasonably priced .com you just have to be creative.
Let me give you an actual sale today that I handled.
I bought both the .com and the .org of the same domain name for a customer (someone who sold their company to google iim)..
The .com went for $70,000. I was able to get the .org for $1,500.
Domains are all over the place and despite what the OP says (I will try to address that in a separate post) there are domains that can be had and sellers who are reasonable.
Getting anything but a .com for a serious site is going to be a problem. If anything makes more sense to tack on a word to what you want (pre or suffix) than it does to get anything but a .com
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#19I have a two letter .ca if anyone is interested.
nobody is interested in garbage. that's why garbage trucks come by once per week.
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