Domain Games...
Is it just me? Or is domain purchasing just a markup game?
Every time I go to Namecheap to get a new domain, all the .com's and good ones are taken. No less by a non-viable website, just taken by a LLC shelfing the name.
Seems to me like this is a markup game where the domain seller creates a domain while you are searching so they can "negotiate" the name from the owner for you at a higher premium price.
It would be easy enough for them to do, I would guess they can register domains for pennies compared to what we pay. And if it gets them a $15-20 sell instead of $10 for likely very easy programming? 150%+ markup on a grand scale isn't bad to boost sales. All you have to do is create a network of LLC's (which are cheap too) to shelf the domains.
Seems like a perfectly viable marketing option for any business without moral constraints...
Kindof like the "Mark-up, Mark-down" sales I see in the stores. Take the regular sell price and mark it up for a week so you can have a 25% SALE and make the same money or better than you would have anyway. Or just falsify a higher price on the original tag and slap a red sticker on it for the sales price (which is actually the regular price). I've watched them do it several times, over and over.
Maybe it's just me and my bad luck with domain names (and an avid conspiracy theory awareness), but you'd think an obscure .com would be available once in a while...
Is anyone else having this issue? Or is there a smart one that knows the secrets of the domain sellers and thinks it's bunko??? Is there an honest domain businessman in the house?
Thanks for your input!
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I agree with you...just last week I searched for a few domain names. Most were available and I didn't buy right away. I went back the next morning and most had been purchased and were for sale at a higher price. Coincidence? I just don't think do.
Yes this happened to me. I kept looking at a domain name at Go Daddy. After looking three times the fourth time Go daddy purchased it themselves and put a $500 price tag on it. Seems like dirty pool to me but Just corporate greed. Some would say good business sense for Go Daddy. Seems rotten to me.
Stinks for doing research. I wonder what Jaaxy does to research domain names? Do you suppose it just does a google search? I would hope that checking on Jaaxy doesn't trigger the domain game... That would stink...
Yes you want to avoid searching for domain names until you are ready to purchase. At that point you go to the provider like Namecheap and search and buy. There are definitely entities out there that will play this game.
Of course I have no idea if they do that, but whenever I created my first site the domain names that I wanted were all premium domains. The one I really wanted was listed at like $500, and like you said there is no website affiliated with it and it was owned by an LLC.
If that is what they are doing they are making some good money!
Some of the parked domains are previously owned and up for sale, you could check whois domain name checker to see if anyone actually owned them previously
I'm pretty sure that when you search for a domain name it is registered and then sometimes livened up by the provider, this has happened a couple of times, day 1 name available, day 2 name not available and parked with advertising. grab them while you can
Maybe the better analogy than a sale price would be... When a real estate agent says he has several other "offers" higher than yours so that you'll boost yours up to increase the base price of the house for his client. Every agent says "we have other offers" almost like robotwork...
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I´m buying mine from a Swedish Company ´cause I´m Swedish and I haven´t had any problem with mine,just some ofc but not so many, and it´s cheap just about 10$ each compare in dollars.