Thanks for your insight! I'm going to start by looking into DomainTools (never heard of that before, but sounds super helpful). If I had to guess, the person that bought it back in the day bought it for a long period of time because he/she thought the idea would work - at least that's what I'm hoping.
I might end up sending you an e-mail too. I really appreciate that you'd be willing to give up some of your time to help me out with this. I think the majority of us here on HN really value our time very highly (myself included), and it speaks worlds about your generosity to be willing to give some of it up. Thanks again!
No worries. It'd honestly be a pleasure to help out. Domains are a bit of a murky world - but - as the other comment says, the parking provider might be happy to broker a sale as well.
Take a look at sedo.com, afternic.com & namejet.com to get an idea of what premium domains 'go for' in the aftermarket.
Are some industry references that I've got in my RSS feeds. Unless you're prepared for the sorts of costs that domains go for, you might find yourself a little shocked by how much this person might want for the name alone.
Quite often it's worth it - but depending on the scope of your project - you might also want to consider looking for alternative names for your project. Someone recently posted http://impossibility.org/ to HN and I thought it was absoloutely brilliant. A domain name generator. It's bloody fantastic.
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Thanks for your insight! I'm going to start by looking into DomainTools (never heard of that before, but sounds super helpful). If I had to guess, the person that bought it back in the day bought it for a long period of time because he/she thought the idea would work - at least that's what I'm hoping.
I might end up sending you an e-mail too. I really appreciate that you'd be willing to give up some of your time to help me out with this. I think the majority of us here on HN really value our time very highly (myself included), and it speaks worlds about your generosity to be willing to give some of it up. Thanks again!
No worries. It'd honestly be a pleasure to help out. Domains are a bit of a murky world - but - as the other comment says, the parking provider might be happy to broker a sale as well.
Take a look at sedo.com, afternic.com & namejet.com to get an idea of what premium domains 'go for' in the aftermarket.
http://domainnews.com/ http://www.domainnamenews.com/ http://www.dnjournal.com/
Are some industry references that I've got in my RSS feeds. Unless you're prepared for the sorts of costs that domains go for, you might find yourself a little shocked by how much this person might want for the name alone.
Quite often it's worth it - but depending on the scope of your project - you might also want to consider looking for alternative names for your project. Someone recently posted http://impossibility.org/ to HN and I thought it was absoloutely brilliant. A domain name generator. It's bloody fantastic.