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First register the .net name while you are thinking. It's only $7 or so. .com is better than .net because .net is below the radar for most people. Have you t

by russell 18y ago

First register the .net name while you are thinking. It's only $7 or so. .com is better than .net because .net is below the radar for most people. Have you thought of .org It doesnt mean nonprofit. It was set up for everyone else not in the military/industrial complex. Most people are aware of .org. The going price for parked or low volume domains is around $15K Maybe an offer in that range will get his attention. Someone in another thread made the point that most people will come to your site via search and your real name is not important. I dont really subscribe to that argument because people tell their friends without giving a proper link, say on the phone. I thing you will regret the conflict if you go the .net route. Find another catchy name or add another word to the name you are already considering. TheCatchyName vs CatchyName. Remember catchy names are rarely as good as you think they are. Final piece of advice. Do a trademark search for your name. (tm) is weak but (R) is very strong and you should avoid the conflict.

tjic 18y ago
I think that this was unfairly down-voted - there's a ton of great information here.
- axod 18y ago
  >> "The going price for parked or low volume domains is around $15K Maybe an offer in that range will get his attention." I wouldn't spend $15k on a domain unless that amount of money is small change to you. Also I think that's an insanely high figure in any event.
  - russell 18y ago
    I based the 15k price of transactions that friends were involved in One had a good name he wasnt using, the other had plenty of cash. Other considerations show up: in calif. it is very difficult to find a good company name to register. Combine that with the difficuly of finding a domain name, $15K may not be so much. In general I agree with you, $15K could be put to a lot better use.
silencio 18y ago
> Most people are aware of .org. No, they aren't. I worked at a nonprofit that had a .org address that nobody remembered, not even the staff, many of whom ended up giving out name@foo.com addresses and even printed their business cards with the .com instead of their name@foo.org address. Ended up getting the .com and the .org so people would stop confusing them. You'd imagine if there was a TLD someone would remember with regards to an organization it would be .org, but it's really .com or whatever the prevalent ccTLD in the country is. Speaking of telling friends and clients and other such people your email address/url over the phone, every single time I've told my super short email address (me@janey.me) to someone that wasn't geeky, it ALWAYS ended with "so is it me.com?" (well, I do have a mobileme account but no...), "so what is this at? hotmail? yahoo?"... I think that's why I still primarily rely on my gmail account that nobody has a problem with.

by russell 18y ago

tjic 18y ago

I think that this was unfairly down-voted - there's a ton of great information here.

axod 18y ago
>> "The going price for parked or low volume domains is around $15K Maybe an offer in that range will get his attention." I wouldn't spend $15k on a domain unless that amount of money is small change to you. Also I think that's an insanely high figure in any event.
- russell 18y ago
  I based the 15k price of transactions that friends were involved in One had a good name he wasnt using, the other had plenty of cash. Other considerations show up: in calif. it is very difficult to find a good company name to register. Combine that with the difficuly of finding a domain name, $15K may not be so much. In general I agree with you, $15K could be put to a lot better use.

silencio 18y ago

> Most people are aware of .org. No, they aren't. I worked at a nonprofit that had a .org address that nobody remembered, not even the staff, many of whom ended up giving out name@foo.com addresses and even printed their business cards with the .com instead of their name@foo.org address. Ended up getting the .com and the .org so people would stop confusing them. You'd imagine if there was a TLD someone would remember with regards to an organization it would be .org, but it's really .com or whatever the prevalent ccTLD in the country is. Speaking of telling friends and clients and other such people your email address/url over the phone, every single time I've told my super short email address (me@janey.me) to someone that wasn't geeky, it ALWAYS ended with "so is it me.com?" (well, I do have a mobileme account but no...), "so what is this at? hotmail? yahoo?"... I think that's why I still primarily rely on my gmail account that nobody has a problem with.