The Art of Getting a 3 Letter Domain Name

Post by billpg » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

mietek wrote: post #28

larrys wrote: post #21

As someone who both buys and sells domain names (and particularly 3 letter .com's since 1996) let me point a few things out. I might also mention that I am the go to guy for a few well known VC's that you have heard of although that is not my main business at all (although it could be it just doesn't pay that well compared to other things I spend time on.) This statement: "Within a day or 2 we started getting respons…

> People in the business can be jerks and unreasonable for sure but it would be more likely for someone to "ask" for 100k or simply say "domain is not for sale" than to say "7 figures" (2 letter, possible, 3 letter, specifically "all of the responses", no. FWIW, here's an email I received when enquiring about a 3-letter domain name: Thank you for your interest in this domain name This domain name is among our most pr…

Post by adventured » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 8:04 AM UTC

marban wrote: post #42

adventured wrote: post #40

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It's not very bad advice. I've been building web businesses for 16 years. You have no advantage over me on time. The end of the dominance of .com was always inevitable, and is already occurring. Sites as varied as ask.fm, twitch.tv, minecraftwiki.net, foods.tv, formspring.me, php.net, about.me, imageshack.us, last.fm, mega.co.nz, rapidgator.net, popads.net, speedtest.net, ustream.tv, prchecker.info, who.is, all.biz,…

You're mixing up the importance of a .com for an app- vs. web-centric business.

Post by glennon » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

adventured wrote: post #40

larrys wrote: post #18

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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 mor…

It's not very bad advice. I've been building web businesses for 16 years. You have no advantage over me on time. The end of the dominance of .com was always inevitable, and is already occurring. Sites as varied as ask.fm, twitch.tv, minecraftwiki.net, foods.tv, formspring.me, php.net, about.me, imageshack.us, last.fm, mega.co.nz, rapidgator.net, popads.net, speedtest.net, ustream.tv, prchecker.info, who.is, all.biz,…

Post by gadders » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 9:01 AM UTC

larrys wrote: post #18

adventured wrote: post #6

My 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 mor…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

underwater wrote: post #33

mietek wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People in the business can be jerks and unreasonable for sure but it would be more likely for someone to "ask" for 100k or simply say "domain is not for sale" than to say "7 figures" (2 letter, possible, 3 letter, specifically "all of the responses", no. FWIW, here's an email I received when enquiring about a 3-letter domain name: Thank you for your interest in this domain name This domain name is among our most pr…

Are you sure you talked to a person and not a robot? I'm sure that each and every domain you ask about is one of their "prized and sought-after" domains. The "five-figure and higher" line (repeated four times!) is pretty funny. I'm not sure of any other market where price estimates span multiple orders of magnitude. It is just a transparent way to get you to name a figure first.