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Interesting Development
I currently own the .com .net .org of a domain and I just was approached by a branding company asking how much I want for the lot. Now I'm curious how much I should let them go for. It could be a very powerful brand, and if they hire a branding company they obviously have money to spend.
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50 gazillion dollars?
@FRCorey, PM the domain names?
@FRCorey, PM me the domain's too.
@vld Huh?
I know what PM everyone the names!
ffs, just post the names!
Don't PM me the domain, just post em, you own em, what could possibly go wrong
Depends on some factors:
Has the company which is asking for the domain a trademark for it's name? Which business? You better post the domain here, so we can take a guess of it's value.
hah.
Guys this company has branded companies like American Airlines, Sharp, Toyota.
I'm starting to think at least 5 figures here.
Are you actually using the site?
If they were smart they would have used a lawer or some third party to ask you. Not a name that raises the value =\
That said you may have more room to work with ^^
@jarland Oh Hell No!
No I'm not using the domain, I had a plan for it for a business hosting venture.
put it this way using a different language version of (life)hosting
Ask them how much they want to pay.
Take what they offer and double it at minimum.
Francisco
I waited a few hours to make em sweat, and asked them to send me an offer.
$20 each, maybe $10 for the .com.
yeah, inb4 sued and forcibly removed of your property.
What if others want to make a offer
@kbar they cant sue me and take it, I have a DBA filed under that name.
If it's a branding group they likely have some fairly deep pockets. People with a very small budget don't go paying branding companies to get things going.
Francisco
I had a professor in Uni that was approached by a shell company (or branding company or something) for a domain he owned. Got like $6,000 for it, ended up being the name of a prescription drug from a big pharmaceutical company. He was sitting on it for years, he had plans to develop it, but never got around to it, so he sold it. Too bad I can't remember the name of the domain...
@liam and this is my worry, I want to see what they offer, because I can see the name being a big company if someone put enough money behind it.
Besides my wife needs a new car lol.
really? so if they take you to court, you'll be willing to pay the court fees and lawyer fees and take the lost time from your business in order to fight over those domain names, eh?
Domains are a real grey area. Last year I was domain squatting on the domain tinychats.net just because. And one day I got an e-mail saying that tinychats will file a wipo arbitration against me if I do not give them the domain. If I didn't give it to them I would have to go to court and all that fun stuff. But I just gave them the domain because it wasn't worth my time or effort.
Unless they can prove they existed prior to my DBA filing, they can do nothing about it.
"Well first of all this was registered prior to your brand"
but your not using it
1) "so!"
2) "been using it as a irc vhost"
I think domain squatters are on a similar level to patent trolls...