Here's a startup idea for them: Sell hall.com and walk away with a million dollars.
From my experience this seems like an incredible steal. Congrats :)
How we got the Hall.com domain
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Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#52I'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 :)
Are you specifically concerned about the site's past history being available, and/or do you want to block the current version from being archived for the future?
To give a chance to the crawls which feed the Wayback Machine (and drop your de facto veto of showing any prior crawls), you could whitelist 'ia_archiver' and 'archive.org_bot'.
To give a chance to up-and-coming search engines where competition is sorely needed, you could also whitelist 'ScoutJet' (for Blekko.com) and 'DuckDuckBot' (for DuckDuckGo.com).
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#53I'm pretty shocked you got it for so little. I've been offered more than five times that for my "first name only" domain, and it's just been from other people with the same first name. Though they're right about the lowballs and not even replying. I routinely get mail either demanding that I give it to somebody because, "I is can start no profit save cancer" or around $150 because somebody thinks a domain name is a n…
For some reason, I've had no offers for my "first name only" domain... :-/
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#54I'm pretty shocked you got it for so little. I've been offered more than five times that for my "first name only" domain, and it's just been from other people with the same first name. Though they're right about the lowballs and not even replying. I routinely get mail either demanding that I give it to somebody because, "I is can start no profit save cancer" or around $150 because somebody thinks a domain name is a n…
that's not a TLD.
Indeed, and thanks for the correction!
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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.
larrys -- I'm in a similar situation and the domain brokers I've talked to have all been really sleazy. I would love to an HNer experienced in this field. I'd reach out to you privately but unfortunately your HN profile and even some light Google stalking didn't yield much as far as your contact info. So if you could contact me that would be great as well.
nate.hashem@gmail.com
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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.
Let me jump on that as well. We'd love to talk to you over some consulting on a domain. Email in profile :)
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#57"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…
I would love to talk to you as well, I am not too crazy about our current domain but most of the reasonable ones are taken... me@cs.mu thanks :)
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#58"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…
Larry, my email is rogerdjin@gmail.com and I want to talk to get your advice on domain issues too. Please reach out :)
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#59That'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 mod…
If you've got such an awesome domain, that others are valuing, why not build your own company on that domain? Busy? Hire someone to build something that gets you even 2-3x your adwords revenue - and you'll no longer care that you can't sell the domain.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#60I do not know why companies insist on buying domains. We have given domains to open source groups for years for Free including Drupal.com, OsCon.com, and many others. and yet we have companies insist they want to own the domain. We are "open source for domains" - don't they understand it is free to use?