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

6 points by subrat_rout ↗ HN
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

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hugovie
Why so expensive?
subrat_rout
I believe the owner of the domain has kept it for >10 years. And with a very basic web 1.0 site. Anticipation?
justhw
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_rout
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
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

AznHisoka
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_rout
.net version asking price is around 5k not in millions.
akrurnan
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_rout
That seems to be a plausible suggestion. Thanks