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How common was the name? I assume at least fairly common if he had such a high initial ask.

• 72deluxe 7y ago
  21st Century Fox?
• duxup 7y ago
  I ran into a small community of domain squatters or speculators or whatever you want to call folks who buy them up purely in order to sell them at a profit. The level of amateurism / folks just looking for a quick couple dollars was pretty high and what they asked for / got, even based on their own stories, was all over the map. Many of them didn't care about what they initially ask for even at the risk of scaring off a sale. A lot seemed to be kids or folks with limited resources playing it as a game for fun / in the hopes of striking it rich.
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  • zebraflask 7y ago
    It's largely a game or done for the novelty value, I think, for many of them - kind of like buying a certificate that says you named a star or an asteroid. I ran across one that had my name as a .com (something I'd obviously want), had a bunch of back and forth for several years, once or twice every year, and eventually they realized - ya know - nobody with this name is ever going to pay the exorbitant price they wanted, then they let it lapse. Picked it up for $10 or so, instead of $15,000+. Some of the very short domain names that map to abbreviated company names in China can still be valuable, or if they're somehow truly unique, but for the most part, domain squatting is a dead end for 99% of the domain names at anything less than a very large scale.
    • franga2000 7y ago
      You only need predict one startup or celebrity name right and you can do all the squatting your cold evil heart desires for the next 20 years. Everything after that is pure profit. Domain names are cheap and companies are rich. It's not that unlikely.