Dpf.com *asking Price* How Much !

[Guest]

I can now confirm that here is the asking price for DPF.com if you anyone was interested in buying the domain name :

The company who owns it and asking for to buy it said :

"The asking price is 100,000$ USD

thank you"

Good luck to people who ever decides to buy it

[Zander]

You mistake was asking them for a price rather than stating a price up front which would be a ballpark for what you might spend on it. Obviously they're going to ask for something large as they have no idea what your real budget is and it looks like you've not made an offer. For all they know you could be asking on behalf of a major international business about to launch a major product line where $100,000 is loose-change off the back of the marketing budget for whatever you want that domain for. Did you reply with an offer?

If you want the domain, you might want to send a reply a bit like: ..."$100,000 for a non-dictionary word domain which doesn't strongly link to any major worldwide brand? You must be joking. I'd be willing to put an initial offer of $100 US." and see what comes back. A $1 offer wouldn't be worth their time reading - its not credible - but at $100 and a signal you're willing to negotiate you might get into a reasonable negotiation. For a three-letter dot-com they might want at least a few thousand dollars, but at the moment chances are you're the only buyer who is interested hence have all the negotiating power. Its not like you're committing to buy anything by working out what they'd really sell for.

Domain resellers buy loads of domains cheaply (thousands a day) in the hope that (when they've just expired) someone will want it back so much they'll pay through the nose for it or that the domain name registered will become something an organisation will want and pay well for it. Mostly the registered domains they're sitting on never sell and end up returning for anyone to register after a few years. The idea is that they can get a name, keep it for a at most a few years and get rid of it in that time for a decent price to cover their losses on the ones they never sell and to turn a profit. Sometimes they hit pay-dirt with a domain like "sgiii.com" or "sg3.com" when it gets bought by a company like Samsung prior to their launching of a major new product (e.g. their new Galaxy III phone in this case), but as you can see from this example that ploy has failed as neither domains are 'in use' and companies have them parked. Most of the time these companies are left holding junk they'd rather flog at whatever price they can get above a floor-price (e.g. $150 or something).

Let this be a lesson to anyone looking to buy an existing domain name from a domain holding company: know the max you'll spend, give them an opening price (a low-ish price), but signal your intent to negotiate if they are happy to sell. Finally, make it clear you're willing to hear a counter-offer and that you can negotiate on price, but that you'd be happy walking away if you can't get into reasonable territory with them.