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Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

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Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

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Post by jmathai »

rll wrote: post #9
mapleoin wrote: post #8

Domain squatting made easy?

Yeah, that was my reaction as well. Why legitimize and enable domain squatting?

I don't think this makes squatting any easier than the existing tools to sell domains. I'm giving the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume they did this because, like me, they probably have tens of domains they don't plan on ever using.

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Post by reustle »

abcd_f wrote: post #6

Does this offer an escrow service for transferring domain ownership? Being able to list and browse available domains is nice, bootstrapping negotiations is nice too, but the purchase closing is the most tricky part and the ownership transfer via a third party is an absolute must. GoDaddy offers a service like this and it costs few hundred $ per transfer.

Why not just use escrow?

https://www.escrow.com/services/domain-and-website-escrow.as...

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Post by ramykhuffash »

orik wrote: post #3

A lot of these seem super overpriced. Not that that's a fault in the platform. I hope people don't squat on domains to try to sell them on this.

I think a lot of people like me buy domains planning to do something with them. Eventually we realize that time is limited, but we still hang onto the hope of eventually finding the time to do something with the domains.

I'm guessing they are overpriced because people don't actually want to sell their domains, but they would happily do so if someone was to offer a good chunk of cash for them.

That's my logic anyway. I never bought any domains with plans to sell them, but this site was so easy to use, I threw them up there and put big prices on them, just in case :-)

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Post by thejosh »

whacker wrote: post #12
billpg wrote: post #10

$24,999.00 for freepopemail.com? Somehow I can't see a business based around free mail from the Pope ever earning that much revenue.

free-pop-email.com in case you were being facetious.

Next you're going to tell me expertsexchange.com isn't about gender realignment.

Re: Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains

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Post by benatkin »

reustle wrote: post #14
abcd_f wrote: post #6

Does this offer an escrow service for transferring domain ownership? Being able to list and browse available domains is nice, bootstrapping negotiations is nice too, but the purchase closing is the most tricky part and the ownership transfer via a third party is an absolute must. GoDaddy offers a service like this and it costs few hundred $ per transfer.

Why not just use escrow? https://www.escrow.com/services/domain-and-website-escrow.as...

It's "escrow.com", not "escrow". They try to do a funky thing with their logo to separate the escrow part of it from .com, but they aren't brash enough to leave off the suffix. If they did, I don't think it would fly.

I searched for "escrow.com" reviews and found some negative ones. So there's one reason why someone might not use it.

Another reason would be that as a general escrow service they may not understand the domain escrow process as well as a company that only does DNS escrow.

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