Ask HN: Whats the most you've paid for a Domain Name?
Was it worth it and would you do it again? What are your thoughts on spending a small fortunate to get your .com?
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We paid $12 for the .co and lost tons of business from potential customers trying to email us at the .com. We finally caved and paid $9,000 for the .com. It's been 100% worth it for our business to have the .com.
Do you think the loss of business was partially because your company chose .co instead of something else like .io? I could see myself mistaking .co with .com but not .io.
$5000. Use a domain broker like sedo.com to negotiate so the seller doesn't know who you are and how significant the domain name is to you. Bought several sub-$2000 domains this way. Don't assume that the broker can find the domain owner if it's a years-old registration.
I had to pay $1000 to a squatter to get my own personal name.
The problem is that it is an emotional topic for sellers. Most sellers think that their domain is worth 4 figures or more at the least while it may not be the case often.
I have found many squatted domains that I will happily pay say $200 give or take but I am shelling out $5000 for a domain name (unless I have free VC money to burn :))
Ultimately, I end up buying a domain that is not taken and live with that.
I have found many squatted domains that I will happily pay say $200 give or take but I am shelling out $5000 for a domain name (unless I have free VC money to burn :))
Ultimately, I end up buying a domain that is not taken and live with that.
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Most expensive, $8,500. Not sure if it was worth it yet, time will tell. I would certainly pay lots for a domain though again. I bought and sold them as a business, I'm comfortable with paying a premium for a good domain.
getting the domain of my dreams would involve like bribing an entire country and that's money i can spend in better ways.
i think it depends on the projected ROI.
the most expensive for me was an io domain for 80€/year, though. wrong purchase.
i think it depends on the projected ROI.
the most expensive for me was an io domain for 80€/year, though. wrong purchase.
$50K for a company I was working for. It's a 7 letter english word, animal, and was the brand for an ecommerce company that was shutting down but had a lot of history behind it.
Not that much, it was about 15 Euro IIRC.
I'd need a damn good reason to spend more than $50 on one. And though there are many good reasons, none of them have applied to me so far. :-)
One of the reason it's worth it is because Google still prefers .com a lot.
$2,500 and would not do it again.
I spend $99/year for mohni.sh (my first name - Mohnish)
$700 for supermathworld.com from a squatter
Being a geek, I would have pre-registered the .net, .org and .com for many variations of any business I might start up, so there would be no need to pay a lot. I've seen people shaken down due to lack of hind-sight.
I would pay a lot to buy .org and .com (the TLD's themselves) but they won't sell them to me.
I would pay a lot to buy .org and .com (the TLD's themselves) but they won't sell them to me.