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How we got the Hall.com domain

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Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

#13

Post by rjj »

"The idea of using the term “group” or “room” didn’t excite us; group was overused and room felt stale, reminiscent of AOL."

I agree with this, but then I went to hall.com and the very first thing it says in the software window is "Team Room - Hall.com"!

Huh?

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

#15

Post by bretthellman »

rjj wrote: post #13

"The idea of using the term “group” or “room” didn’t excite us; group was overused and room felt stale, reminiscent of AOL." I agree with this, but then I went to hall.com and the very first thing it says in the software window is "Team Room - Hall.com"! Huh?

Thanks for pointing that out. It was more about not being another GroupMeLyO.IO clone

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

#16

Post by pyre »

bretthellman wrote: post #6
rsiqueira wrote: post #3

I'm trying to see an old version of this website (hall.com) using archive.org, but I got an error message because http://hall.com/robots.txt is blocking it: User-agent: * Disallow: /

rsiqueira you're not missing much. Check out the live version :)

Probably just wondering whether it was being squatted or if there was a legit business on there.

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

#17

Post by saurik »

larrys wrote: post #7

"We started the conversation by offering a fair price to show we were serious. We didn’t want to get ignored by starting with a low, insulting offer. After a few emails negotiating a price, we struck a deal for $20k. No equity, just cash exchanged with escrow.com." This is my business (since '96). You did a great job and bought the name for a very fair price. If you would post the contents of the emails you sent I wo…

(Do you generally do, or would you be willing to do, consulting on matters like this, paid or otherwise? If so, I would love to talk to you for a bit and get some opinions. -- saurik@saurik.com)

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by GiraffeNecktie »

Over the years, I've had plenty of offers for my three letter cool sounding word .com domain, unfortunately most have been in that "insult" category. I wouldn't call $20k an insult but at ten percent of my asking price I'm not sure I'd bother responding.
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