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> After weeks of gentle negotiating, they came to an agreement: $54K in cash for the domain.
Yikes. That's 3.6x the max budget they were hoping to spend. I really do hope that in the long run it pays off.
> [...] but their budget was $12-15K [...] > .... > After weeks of gentle negotiating, they came to an agreement: $54K in cash for the domain. Yikes. That's 3.6x the max budget they were hoping to spend. I really do hope that in the long run it pays off.
All domains should really cost $1000/year from the registrar at a minimum to stop this idiotic "I'll buy thousands of them and sit on them forever until someone offers me enough for one of them to make the whole enterprise worth it".
All domains should really cost $1000/year from the registrar at a minimum to stop this idiotic "I'll buy thousands of them and sit on them forever until someone offers me enough for one of them to make the whole enterprise worth it".
"The broker would help them find the owners of domain names, negotiate the price, and handle the transaction in exchange for a 10-15% commission of the price of the domain." The incentives there seem misaligned to me. The person negotiating the price for them gets paid a higher commission if the price ends up being higher?
All domains should really cost $1000/year from the registrar at a minimum to stop this idiotic "I'll buy thousands of them and sit on them forever until someone offers me enough for one of them to make the whole enterprise worth it".
I like the Experiment.com brand name so much better, as cool and quirky as Microryza was. Congrats on a good find and sane price!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbuscular_mycorrhiza
"experiment.com" sacrifices the neat science and the symbolism. The only appeal I see is utilitarian. Given their difficulties with "Microryza," I understand that this is enough to motivate the change, but it seems like the opposite of cool and quirky.
Am I the only one that likes the name Ryza more than Experiment? Experiment just sounds so bland to me and will be harder to rank high with.
All domains should really cost $1000/year from the registrar at a minimum to stop this idiotic "I'll buy thousands of them and sit on them forever until someone offers me enough for one of them to make the whole enterprise worth it".
Expensive domain registration would make it cost prohibitive for average people to start a website. The better thing to limit is how many domains you can own, or at least how many domains you can park.
And parking domains is indistinguishable from using them. Unless under "parking" you mean explicitly stating this domain is for sale. But with imposed restriction squatters will just remove those and park domains with "this domain is... well, you get the idea".