Ask:HN If x.com is $1.5M then how much x.net should be?

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by subrat_rout • 12 years ago

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I contacted owner of a particular x.com domain for which he/she asked for $1.5 million. It is beyond my reach. I see a domain registrar company is sitting on it's x.net version and asking for around $5k. How much should be the offer price? Thanks

hugovie• 12 years ago

Why so expensive?

goldenkey• 12 years ago

Because can. Can? Do.

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

I believe the owner of the domain has kept it for >10 years. And with a very basic web 1.0 site. Anticipation?

justhw• 12 years ago

I'd walk away and get a .com that is closely related. If your name is a .net you're always going to have to remind people it's a .net in your logo and so forth like Authorize.net. If your product is an app I'd get a .co or append "app" to the .com

Now days .com's aren't as important as they once were.

Read how Marco Arment decided naming his app and his dealing with a squatter. ( http://www.marco.org/2013/09/24/naming-overcast )

Also a recent thread about how a YC Co. acquired Experiment.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7265540

Good Luck

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

You are right. It is the business or execution side of the business that matters. I got another domain very close to what I wanted with 3 extra letter(suffix) for few hundred dollars from a squatter.

54k for the domain is still higher(unless you have some angel money to throw at it). I'd use that money to bootstrap my project.

pushkargaikwad• 12 years ago

Most of the domain owners often ask for ridiculous prices and that domain certainly won't be worth even 5% of what he is asking for.

If you are looking to build a product/company, you want to avoid going with .net (specially if .com is owned by someone else who is looking to sell it at premium anyway)

My advice would be to go with some other name, as the domain registrar/parking companies also inflate the price by 3x-5x so the real price of the .net is probably 1k

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

Yes, I agree.Thanks

maheshone• 12 years ago

X.com is owned by eBay? It's redirecting to http://www.ebayinc.com/

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

Well, it is not exactly x.com. I have put x.com for the sake of example.

AznHisoka• 12 years ago

Walk away. a .net for almost any word is not worth that much. Even computer.net or iphone.net isn't worth that much to me. I assume you don't got millions in reserve.

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

.net version asking price is around 5k not in millions.

akrurnan• 12 years ago

if a title like "whatsapp" which seems to have nothing to do with an sms service is sold for $19 bn, i'm sure domain names have nothing to do with company valuation.

choose "whatsx.com" instead :-)

subrat_rout6• 12 years ago

That seems to be a plausible suggestion. Thanks

Ask:HN If x.com is $1.5M then how much x.net should be?

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