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Over the years, I've had plenty of offers for my three letter cool sounding word .com domain, unfortunately most have been in that "insult" category. I wouldn't

Over the years, I've had plenty of offers for my three letter cool sounding word .com domain, unfortunately most have been in that "insult" category. I wouldn't call $20k an insult but at ten percent of my asking price I'm not sure I'd bother responding.

citricsquid 15y ago
So you have a dictionary word that is 3 letters long .com domain and nobody has offered $200k? or is it a colloquialism like "wut"?
- GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
  No, it's a common English word that I believe would be excellent for many different concepts. I had one serious offer at 40k which I turned down. They were wanting to use it for some kind of music sharing site for musicians.
  - JoeCortopassi 15y ago
    You have a domain you are trying to sell, people are asking about it on an entrepreneurial news board, and you won't say what it is? Free press man. Unless you got a real good reason to keep it a secret (how can you if you want to sell it), you should be name dropping that domain as much as possible when you have a captive audience
    - GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
      hum.com
  - mattm 15y ago
    gig?
smackfu 15y ago
Did you just buy it in 1998 or something and keep renewing it?
- GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
  Yes, actually I think it might even have been 95 or 96.
  - martinkallstrom 15y ago
    Me and a friend was browsing for a domain to buy in '95. Cars.com and a lot of stuff like that was available but "who would ever be interested in something that generic?". Starwars.com was available but then George Lucas would have been pissed off, so... We ended up buying pizza for the money instead. It was great pizza.
    - alapshah 15y ago
      Too bad you didn't buy the Pizza.com domain name instead of an actual pizza, because it sold for $2.6 million! http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26m.html http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26... incidentally, I don't see how the pizza.com owner is going to recoup his investment
      - martinkallstrom 15y ago
        Yes, it's too bad. And yet, when I find that a domain like "programmers.ph" is available for registering, I think to myself "who will ever be interested in something that generic?". It still is, grab it if you want. Hindsight is 20/20, it is impossible to know now where scarcity will inflate prices through the roof.

citricsquid 15y ago

So you have a dictionary word that is 3 letters long .com domain and nobody has offered $200k? or is it a colloquialism like "wut"?

GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
No, it's a common English word that I believe would be excellent for many different concepts. I had one serious offer at 40k which I turned down. They were wanting to use it for some kind of music sharing site for musicians.
- JoeCortopassi 15y ago
  You have a domain you are trying to sell, people are asking about it on an entrepreneurial news board, and you won't say what it is? Free press man. Unless you got a real good reason to keep it a secret (how can you if you want to sell it), you should be name dropping that domain as much as possible when you have a captive audience
  - GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
    hum.com
- mattm 15y ago
  gig?

smackfu 15y ago

Did you just buy it in 1998 or something and keep renewing it?

GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
Yes, actually I think it might even have been 95 or 96.
- martinkallstrom 15y ago
  Me and a friend was browsing for a domain to buy in '95. Cars.com and a lot of stuff like that was available but "who would ever be interested in something that generic?". Starwars.com was available but then George Lucas would have been pissed off, so... We ended up buying pizza for the money instead. It was great pizza.
  - alapshah 15y ago
    Too bad you didn't buy the Pizza.com domain name instead of an actual pizza, because it sold for $2.6 million! http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26m.html http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26... incidentally, I don't see how the pizza.com owner is going to recoup his investment
    - martinkallstrom 15y ago
      Yes, it's too bad. And yet, when I find that a domain like "programmers.ph" is available for registering, I think to myself "who will ever be interested in something that generic?". It still is, grab it if you want. Hindsight is 20/20, it is impossible to know now where scarcity will inflate prices through the roof.