You can counter-offer. I offered a domain-squatter half what they asked, and they sold to me immediately... leaving me thinking that I could have offered much l

You can counter-offer. I offered a domain-squatter half what they asked, and they sold to me immediately... leaving me thinking that I could have offered much less. Maybe choose a different name. "Project name" is probably hard to google for. That's another reason for making up words. It's easy to test for uniqueness by googling it yourself. Choose a .com name. ".com" names are helpful because people expect it (and sometimes ponder a little over why it isn't a .com); and browsers try automatically complete to that first.