Purchasing a registered domain
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- zarkonite
I'm setting up a new business venture and someone's parked on the domain I want.
I've contacted them about purchasing it, and am waiting on a response.
Does anyone here have advice/experience with this kind of stuff and would like to share helpful insights?
Thanks very much!
- detritus-1
Change your name.
- thisautoflavour
- I'm sort of half joking, but really - if I were to start a business, I'd make sure that 'is the domain name I want available?' is in my Top Ten To-Do list.detritus
- It's not the most important thing for me at this point, it's just the .com that's taken and it's parked so worste case IF the business makes enough we'll dishzarkonite
- out the cash when we're flush...zarkonite
- akiersky0
maybe pick a different TLD to use after your name? there are hundreds of them now: http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-al…
- doesnotexist1
go daddy has a service that will help
i wouldn't contact them yourself
been in the same position and our client reached out, the owner of the URL researched them then asked 100x more than they initially asked
- thanks, I'll look into that godaddy featureamagick.zarkonite
- zarkonite0
They have two things on godaddy, one service that's a broker between you and the owner and another to bid on the domain when it becomes available.
Both fairly affordable.
- deathboy0
More curious what is it worth to you? Would u drop 5-7k on it?
- zarkonite0
@deathboy Not from the get go, but it's the list of things to do. I would pay that much once and if some of the business metrics are met.
I mean I always start everything as lean as possible and using .co or .biz is ok for now. But if sales are growing as planned and we're all feeling like we can afford it I'll need the .com to avoid confusion/marketing problems.
Either we include it in our first round financing or we spend from our revenue if that's the best place to put our cash.
I personally don't care, but my non-techie partners seem gung ho on it... so I'm doing my due diligence before I explain to them that it's really not that important. Best way to do that IMO is by letting them know "this costs x and brings in y" can we get better ROI elsewhere with that money.
- huh. well i'm sure the price will go up with your success. Be interesting if they sell it on a flat cost plus percentage of future profits or somethingdeathboy
- plus i always figure if you are a success you might not need a .com. IE videocopilot, but i guess could also be industry specific for fraud problemsdeathboy
- it's not just about the domain - if another company or companies trading with that name then choose another name.fadein11
- True, price will go up with success. I'll keep that in mind, try to look smaller than we are =)zarkonite