RicardoGrande
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The juice is not worth the squeeze. Someone said earlier, it's like you're playing the lottery.
Say you're a lower-class person, you don't even know much about websites but you want to make your NY window cleaning business known.
You go to godaddy.com, you type in NYWindowCleaner.com and search aaaaaaand- it's not available.
You see something about a broker, you click the button.
You find out two words and an acronym will cost you 500$ to purchase.
"F&*# that!"
You click your browser's back button.
You type in NYBestWindows.com
Taken.
You go Back again.
You type in NYWindowSheen.com
It's actually available for 9.99$ or 7.99$ with the new customer discount.
You take it and build a 3,000,000$/yr company.
The new name isn't what you wanted but it still gets the message through and it hosts the site, which is good enough while your team is hitting the pavement and providing the VALUE.
Having a nice domain name is good but when predatory parkers are just sitting on them waiting for a pay day, it's far easier and arguably better (in terms of being creative and having options to choose from) to just go back to the drawing board and find something that wasn't sniped upon expiry or "monetized".
TBH though I would have registrars ban domain squatters and then have the squatters dunked in a cold river in front of the townespeople.
Have a nice day.
Say you're a lower-class person, you don't even know much about websites but you want to make your NY window cleaning business known.
You go to godaddy.com, you type in NYWindowCleaner.com and search aaaaaaand- it's not available.
You see something about a broker, you click the button.
You find out two words and an acronym will cost you 500$ to purchase.
"F&*# that!"
You click your browser's back button.
You type in NYBestWindows.com
Taken.
You go Back again.
You type in NYWindowSheen.com
It's actually available for 9.99$ or 7.99$ with the new customer discount.
You take it and build a 3,000,000$/yr company.
The new name isn't what you wanted but it still gets the message through and it hosts the site, which is good enough while your team is hitting the pavement and providing the VALUE.
Having a nice domain name is good but when predatory parkers are just sitting on them waiting for a pay day, it's far easier and arguably better (in terms of being creative and having options to choose from) to just go back to the drawing board and find something that wasn't sniped upon expiry or "monetized".
TBH though I would have registrars ban domain squatters and then have the squatters dunked in a cold river in front of the townespeople.
Have a nice day.