I have wanted this URL for years

[Kelemvor]

Same here. My wife has a company and has the .net domain because some idiot has the .com. It's been sitting at the "Coming Soon..." page through register.com for years but he wouldn't sell it because he had money invested in his branding of a sort of similar but not really name.

I tried to tell him that the site wasn't doing him any good since he wasn't even using it but he didn't quite seem to understand.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: mooglemania85

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I wanted to get nakedfrog.com for quite some time... but for years, some guy owned it and basically did squat with it. I checked up on it on about a monthly basis... and then I must have missed out when it became available, because I checked it again, and it was a gay porn site.

In the time it's taken me to read all the dozens of posts below yours, I still haven't stopped laughing at this. Sorry man :laugh:

sooooo, are you still checking up on the site on a monthly basis?

A monthly basis? Certainly not.

 

[RichUK]

www.richuk.com

Anybody want a muffin?

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: mooglemania85

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I wanted to get nakedfrog.com for quite some time... but for years, some guy owned it and basically did squat with it. I checked up on it on about a monthly basis... and then I must have missed out when it became available, because I checked it again, and it was a gay porn site.

In the time it's taken me to read all the dozens of posts below yours, I still haven't stopped laughing at this. Sorry man :laugh:

sooooo, are you still checking up on the site on a monthly basis?

A monthly basis? Certainly not.

Weekly? Daily? Hourly? Viagraly?

 

[zeruty]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
I own 0.999equals1.com and I'm not using it. Should do something with it I suppose...

I should look into theplanetakesoff.com maybe I could make money off that

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Who says you can't make him a lowball offer?

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: DBL
A 3 letter .com URL is worth a lot. Maybe not 15K but that is not that unrealistic of a price IMO.

i just bought DBL :evil:

 

[Fritzo]

I have a long complicated Polish last name and some idiot in Las Vegas registered every last name in the phonebook.com and is selling them for $5000. Yeah, right.

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
Who says you can't make him a lowball offer?

I did that a while ago, followed by a higher lowball.

I'll think up another url. I should forget about this one.

 

[akubi]

you're about 10 years late to the party if you want a 3 letter .com domain

 

[Regs]

This reminds me of the story of the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He made a site called broadcast.com with his college body for broadcasting sports games. Build up a lot of vistors and "clicks", then yahoo came along and gave him 10's of millions of dollars for it.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Regs
This reminds me of the story of the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He made a site called broadcast.com with his college body for broadcasting sports games. Build up a lot of vistors and "clicks", then yahoo came along and gave him 10's of millions of dollars for it.

You meant billions, not 10's of millions. But whats a few orders of magnitude between friends?

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: DBL
A 3 letter .com URL is worth a lot. Maybe not 15K but that is not that unrealistic of a price IMO.

i just bought DBL :evil:

I've been waiting for the day a 3 letter Anandtech screen name commands the same premium.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: DBL
A 3 letter .com URL is worth a lot. Maybe not 15K but that is not that unrealistic of a price IMO.

i just bought DBL :evil:

I've been waiting for the day a 3 letter Anandtech screen name commands the same premium.

:laugh:

 

[djheater]

Somebody sniped my own name from me. I let it lapse, and when I checked it recently somebody was squatting it..

Whatever...

 

[TallBill]

I sold tallbill.com for $200 a few months ago because I wasn't using it and now its completely unused. In only a few months it will be available again, and hopefully I'll snatch it back. I really want bobscott.com (my name) but some old guy in Florida owns it and barely uses it. Oh well, some day hopefully he'll grow tired of it.

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Regs
This reminds me of the story of the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He made a site called broadcast.com with his college body for broadcasting sports games. Build up a lot of vistors and "clicks", then yahoo came along and gave him 10's of millions of dollars for it.

You meant billions, not 10's of millions. But whats a few orders of magnitude between friends?

That is where Cuban got the money to buy the Mavs, right?

 

[bsobel]

That is where Cuban got the money to buy the Mavs, right?

Yep.

 

[edro]

I just checked my name.com and it was registered 2 days ago! The longer version of my name is still available though. Ex. Timothy instead of Tim.

 

[purbeast0]

I have a good domain that is www.***news.com where the *** is a 3 letter acronym that is pretty popular in certain markets.