radar81
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- Jul 23, 2019
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I'm looking to buy a .com domain that has a private registration. It's for my full name: (firstname)(lastname).com, and my last name is relatively uncommon.
So the domain name is super unique and probably isn't worth much to many people except for the person who owns it and a minuscule handful of other people. The whois registration is private, but I think that I have identified the guy that owns it and I could contact him through social media. He has owned it since 2008 and it appears to be set to autorenew every year. Checking the wayback machine, he has had a really crappy WordPress site there since 2009 and hasn't updated it in years.
I'd like to try to buy the domain and negotiate directly with the owner rather than paying one of these agency services. Thoughts on this strategy? What is this type of domain worth and what should I offer?
So the domain name is super unique and probably isn't worth much to many people except for the person who owns it and a minuscule handful of other people. The whois registration is private, but I think that I have identified the guy that owns it and I could contact him through social media. He has owned it since 2008 and it appears to be set to autorenew every year. Checking the wayback machine, he has had a really crappy WordPress site there since 2009 and hasn't updated it in years.
I'd like to try to buy the domain and negotiate directly with the owner rather than paying one of these agency services. Thoughts on this strategy? What is this type of domain worth and what should I offer?
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