Advice on bidding on a parked domain

cougarclaws

cougarclaws

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I'm on the board of directors for a startup 501c3 and the .com which aligns perfectly with our brand and tagline was parked by a premium domain squatter on 5/28/13 (fuckers). There is minuscule search volume (~22/month) and there are no links pointing to it. A Google search doesn't bring up anything I'd consider newsworthy. There's nothing trending or hot about the domain name that I've found.

Asking price on the site is $1,095 which we'd like to get down.

Some questions:

1. I've looked at serps for the keyword, backlinks, domain age, search volume, and twitter. Any other ideas on how domainers valuate domains?
2. How does the fact that they've only owned it for 2 months come into play when they consider offers?
3. Input on bidding strategy? e.g. offer 25% and be prepared to pay 50%
4. Is anyone here or can anyone connect me with a professional domainer who can advise?

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Who's it parked with? If it's something like Afternic, BuyDomains, Sedo, etc. then it's most likely a brokered sale and you'll be dealing with one of their agents who will be taking your offer to the domain's owner.

Domain sellers don't give a shit about young domains, or traffic. The fact is, you want the name, someone else owns it, and they want to get as much as possible for it.

You could try low balling them, but whenever someone tries to do that to me it just pisses me off. I find it's easier to low ball on more expensive names, because $1,095 really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, and so what are you going to low ball them with? An offer of $250 in hopes you can get it for $500? That's about your only option in my opinion.

You could try getting advice from other professional domainers but, once again, we're talking about a domain with a $1095 asking price, not something into the 5, 6 or 7 figure range. You don't need a negotiations team, you just need to make an offer and see what they say.

If you want to see what domains have been reported sold in the last week, and the year to date, to compare with yours try checking out Igloo & DomainNameSales Team Up For $600,000 Sale as Domain Market's Hot Streak Continues and DNJournal.com Year to Date Domain Sales Charts.

Oh, and inb4 "domainers".
 
wickedDUDE said:
You have a board of directors for a startup and you're complaining about $1,095? WTF
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Do you know what a 501c3 is? We're a group of people with a common charitable community interest. Of our board, one is unemployed, one is a school teacher, one is a government employee, another is a blue collarer. A few of us are better off but everyone has expenses man. These are good people who have invested significant time and sweat equity over the past year. A few of us are wiling to put cash in but we might as well get the cost as low as possible. No reason to be a cunt.

Fatbat said:
Who's it parked with? If it's something like Afternic, BuyDomains, Sedo, etc. then it's most likely a brokered sale and you'll be dealing with one of their agents who will be taking your offer to the domain's owner.

Domain sellers don't give a shit about young domains, or traffic. The fact is, you want the name, someone else owns it, and they want to get as much as possible for it.

You could try low balling them, but whenever someone tries to do that to me it just pisses me off. I find it's easier to low ball on more expensive names, because $1,095 really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, and so what are you going to low ball them with? An offer of $250 in hopes you can get it for $500? That's about your only option in my opinion.

You could try getting advice from other professional domainers but, once again, we're talking about a domain with a $1095 asking price, not something into the 5, 6 or 7 figure range. You don't need a negotiations team, you just need to make an offer and see what they say.

If you want to see what domains have been reported sold in the last week, and the year to date, to compare with yours try checking out Igloo & DomainNameSales Team Up For $600,000 Sale as Domain Market's Hot Streak Continues and DNJournal.com Year to Date Domain Sales Charts.

Oh, and inb4 "domainers".
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Thanks.
 
I have never get a response when I try to lowball offer's, most of them don't even respond, you can try to bid some what close to the BIN and see if that works bro, good luck
 
I've purchased a handful of domains from brokers and most of the time the max discount is 30%. I'll go in with a 50% offer and work from there.
 
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