How we got the Hall.com domain • Hacker News Board

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by bretthellman » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #16

bretthellman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It was a corporation previosly

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by benvanderbeek » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:16 PM UTC

Everyone besides me probably already knew, but "Wall has been trademarked by Facebook" ? Wow.

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by bretthellman » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:17 PM UTC

benvanderbeek wrote: post #22

Everyone besides me probably already knew, but "Wall has been trademarked by Facebook" ? Wow.

Indeed and they take it very seriously.

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by vaksel » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:18 PM UTC

kloncks wrote: post #4

That's an unbelievable price for a four-character domain.

a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.

i'm in the process of selling a 4 letter domain name, that stands for a major financial product, that gets 20-30K searches a month, and that's currently ranking #1 for that keyword in Google...and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500(estibot value is at $15K).

And that's for a product, that has a transaction fee based model...to a point where a single customer could be worth 5-10K per month, and a big customer could be worth $100K/mo

BTW the estibot value for the hall.com domain is $294,000

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by jonah » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:19 PM UTC

Well done and a great price. (I sold a letter + word .com for more than that.)

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by rudiger » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:20 PM UTC

Great story, and I appreciate the lessons learned at the end. However... can you put the dates in? When you started working on your original product idea, when you bought the domain name, etc.

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by larrys » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:20 PM UTC

saurik wrote: post #17

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)

Sure I'll contact you no problem.

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by bretthellman » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:21 PM UTC

jonah wrote: post #25

Well done and a great price. (I sold a letter + word .com for more than that.)

Thanks jonah, stop by the startup hall and say hello some time: http://hall.com/startups

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by vaksel » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:22 PM UTC

by the way the "if the domain owner held the domain since _____" is wrong.

When you buy a domain on the secondary market, the original creation date gets transferred. So you can have a 1998 registered domain, that was just purchased a week ago

Re: How we got the Hall.com domain

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Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Dec 08, 2011, 11:28 PM UTC

"Hall" has been trademarked. What make you so confident the owners of those trademarks couldn't take action against you, and leave it up to half-chance that it could be taken away from you (even though you may not have infringed against it)?