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Hey all,
I'm just wondering what your opinion would be about the following:
I want the name atcom dot ca, and the current owner (a domain name pirate) wants $500 for it. Is that a reasonable price?
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Of course it's not reasonable. That's like asking if ticket scalper prices are reasonable or if Vinney is giving you a good rate on your "loan".
Choose another name or domain. I wouldn't give the AH the time of day.
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Originally posted by rustynails:
yes You really think that's a reasonable price?! ---- We got ours from GoDaddy.com for their standard domain name price, but saw others that "squatters" wanted to sell (similar names) for around $100, which was unreasonable. $500 is WAY unreasonable! I would suggest getting another name that is close or change the TLD suffix : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
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as to the 500 being reasonable that's a question you need to decide for yourself the developers of the bush library site recently had to pay 35k to get the name back A company did not miss a chance to profit off an expired domain name. The name is www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com. A Florida firm was handling Web services for the presidential library. The Dallas Morning News reports that the company's rights to the domain name expired. Another company, Illuminati Karate, bought the name for less than $10. Then they sold it back to the Bush library contractor for $35,000. I was in a similar situation on one I wanted so I got the .net and waited and was able to grab the .com when it became available
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Thanks guys! This process is a new one to me...
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The practice of "squatting" should be made illegal. If you own a domain name you should be required to have an active site up on it relevant to the name or lose it.
Works with radio and TV stations. If they go off the air for more than a certain amount of time they lose their rights to that frequency spot and it becomes fair game to anybody interested.
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The practice of "squatting" should be made illegal. If you own a domain name you should be required to have an active site up on it relevant to the name or lose it. I agree, we were asked to pay $3K for LSCG.com. As you can see we have LSCG.net, I wouldn't give them 3 cents. 
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Originally posted by MacOSX: Originally posted by rustynails:
[b] yes
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We got ours from GoDaddy.com for their standard domain name price, but saw others that "squatters" wanted to sell (similar names) for around $100, which was unreasonable. $500 is WAY unreasonable!
I would suggest getting another name that is close or change the TLD suffix :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains [/b]Yup. Its just like real estate, its only worth what someone is willing to pay. ATCOM, is a 5 letter, hardly random, domain name, which essentially all are spoken for with similar names. Its a one time fee (besides the yearly $8) that you are going to build your companies web presence around and may be the best move he makes. I guarantee if he paid the $50 analysis fee from go-daddy it would come back with a 300-600 value, so 500 is not totally off the charts.
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I've seen that with phone numbers too. I have a friend who was offered $500.00 for his cell phone number by a local real estate agent. It wasn't even one that spelled anything (XXX-2121), but I'll bet that she worked for a Century 21 office. He sold it to her and ended up getting an even better new number.
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