What’s It Worth?
Tuesday 15th November, 2005I'm in negotiation with one of these cyberterrorist
squatting companies for the Domain name jaffacake.co.uk which is currently
in their name.
I offered them a pretty standard price for it as I really don't think it's much use to them. I already hold the .com .org and .net suffixes so no company or person in their right mind would bother paying the money for a domain that mainly owned by me and that I own google searches for. (Google Rank 6 now :-)
They tell me it's available for a lot more money than that...my reply:
It's ok, I have .net, .org and .com already; just trying to complete the set so I can double the rent and start building houses/hotels.
When you're ready to sell at a reasonable price, let me know.
I didn't expect a reply, but I got one:
What is your reasonable price?
Bearing in mind that I took someone out for dinner the other night and it cost me £100 - That was reasonable for a posh meal.
But then I spent £4995 on a brand new car - that was reasonable for a new Suzuki.
What is a reasonable price to complete the set. - If I pass GO i collect £200!
Nice blog btw - you got me hooked reading then :o)
Kind Regards
Andrew
So what's it worth then? To register a .uk domain with 123reg costs a whole £3.04 a year. They're nice people at 123reg you see and that's why they hold all my domain registrations. It takes a lot to get your name mentioned on this page as 10,000 genuine hits a day is quite a considerable advertising base. Now if "Andrew" was to sell it to me at a nice price, he too could get a really nice link and a big thank you for all my readers to see. They might even click the link to his site and see the other lovely names available.
Alternatively I could just surrender to the hostage taker's demands and pay up...not likely seeing as normal domains cost £3/yr. I mean, what next...he'll offer to submit me to Google and the other "top 50 search engines" for £50/yr?
So where do we go from here? What is a reasonable price? Aren't Suzuki's cheap these days? (I guess they have to compete with Aygo in today's market) Did Andrew have a Jaffacake dessert with his posh meal? Or maybe just the Sticky Richard?
All comments welcome - Incidentally, my offer of £20 was declined.
I offered them a pretty standard price for it as I really don't think it's much use to them. I already hold the .com .org and .net suffixes so no company or person in their right mind would bother paying the money for a domain that mainly owned by me and that I own google searches for. (Google Rank 6 now :-)
They tell me it's available for a lot more money than that...my reply:
It's ok, I have .net, .org and .com already; just trying to complete the set so I can double the rent and start building houses/hotels.
When you're ready to sell at a reasonable price, let me know.
I didn't expect a reply, but I got one:
What is your reasonable price?
Bearing in mind that I took someone out for dinner the other night and it cost me £100 - That was reasonable for a posh meal.
But then I spent £4995 on a brand new car - that was reasonable for a new Suzuki.
What is a reasonable price to complete the set. - If I pass GO i collect £200!
Nice blog btw - you got me hooked reading then :o)
Kind Regards
Andrew
So what's it worth then? To register a .uk domain with 123reg costs a whole £3.04 a year. They're nice people at 123reg you see and that's why they hold all my domain registrations. It takes a lot to get your name mentioned on this page as 10,000 genuine hits a day is quite a considerable advertising base. Now if "Andrew" was to sell it to me at a nice price, he too could get a really nice link and a big thank you for all my readers to see. They might even click the link to his site and see the other lovely names available.
Alternatively I could just surrender to the hostage taker's demands and pay up...not likely seeing as normal domains cost £3/yr. I mean, what next...he'll offer to submit me to Google and the other "top 50 search engines" for £50/yr?
So where do we go from here? What is a reasonable price? Aren't Suzuki's cheap these days? (I guess they have to compete with Aygo in today's market) Did Andrew have a Jaffacake dessert with his posh meal? Or maybe just the Sticky Richard?
All comments welcome - Incidentally, my offer of £20 was declined.