I figured if there was any place in the world to ask it'd be on here since you guys deal with similar situations on the daily and nightly.
I am an average guy who does web dev as a hobby and am helping my gramps set something up for his business. They have the name of the business locked in from some insane price (2200 or something), is there any hope of getting it down to 400-200? All the other major TLD variations are available and it's pretty discreet name and partially in a different language so I'm not sure why they think it's so valuable. Literally no one online seems to be using anything similar to it so I'm trying to negotiate it down.
I know you guys think it's dumb to pay that premium given the other TLDS are available, but I don't want to let my gramps down.
What do you guys think is a good strategy? Factors to consider:
1) Should I call or email? I think calling might be preferred for negations, but I'm not sure.
2) Calling back multiple times to talk to different representatives? Depending on how moody one guy feels, negotiations can take a turn for the worst. But I'm not sure how they operate, maybe calls per domain get tagged and increase value further, so should I just talk to one rep? Male or female rep? Testosterone will make negations difficultly, but there are also bitchy females heh.
3) Purchasing one other TLD (.net, .org) and telling them that, "I'd like to get the .com as an option given it falls into my budgeting plan, but I'm not super invested in it". This is the truth as I have no problem working with the other TLD, but I want to at least try to go all out for my gramps if it's budget-able. Or would this just makes the value soar even higher? I've seen people on other forums say either way so not sure.
At the end of the day, I know it doesn't matter to HD, but my gramps is an immigrant who has worked from nothing to get his business running and just don't want to let him down with something sub-par. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks in any event
I am an average guy who does web dev as a hobby and am helping my gramps set something up for his business. They have the name of the business locked in from some insane price (2200 or something), is there any hope of getting it down to 400-200? All the other major TLD variations are available and it's pretty discreet name and partially in a different language so I'm not sure why they think it's so valuable. Literally no one online seems to be using anything similar to it so I'm trying to negotiate it down.
I know you guys think it's dumb to pay that premium given the other TLDS are available, but I don't want to let my gramps down.
What do you guys think is a good strategy? Factors to consider:
1) Should I call or email? I think calling might be preferred for negations, but I'm not sure.
2) Calling back multiple times to talk to different representatives? Depending on how moody one guy feels, negotiations can take a turn for the worst. But I'm not sure how they operate, maybe calls per domain get tagged and increase value further, so should I just talk to one rep? Male or female rep? Testosterone will make negations difficultly, but there are also bitchy females heh.
3) Purchasing one other TLD (.net, .org) and telling them that, "I'd like to get the .com as an option given it falls into my budgeting plan, but I'm not super invested in it". This is the truth as I have no problem working with the other TLD, but I want to at least try to go all out for my gramps if it's budget-able. Or would this just makes the value soar even higher? I've seen people on other forums say either way so not sure.
At the end of the day, I know it doesn't matter to HD, but my gramps is an immigrant who has worked from nothing to get his business running and just don't want to let him down with something sub-par. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks in any event
