Buy .com to sell to .net owner?

horusprim · Mar 6, 2016

There is an intrinsically valuable .com in a reserve auction. The reserve is at least 4 figures. I wanted to buy the domain for myself to hold or develop. However, I believe it is unlikely I will get the domain since it will probably be bid higher than what I can pay.

The .net version of this domain name is owned by a 23 year old, multi state, company in a niche related to the finance industry.

I thought about Fedexing the CEO of the .net domain company a proposal about selling them the .com version of their domain. Several post like this one: "www. namepros.com/ threads/ success-rate-of-selling-com-to-net-owners. 09224/" have discouraged me. It seems getting people to buy the .com version of their domain is hit or miss.

What would be the best strategy?

golan · Mar 6, 2016

Indeed this is hit or miss. Every CEO or Marketing Director who understands the value of .com AND has a proper budget, will snap the name in a blink. Whoever doesn't understand, you can not educate them.

DomainVP · Mar 6, 2016

Indeed, it is hit or miss.

hookbox · Mar 6, 2016

horusprim said:
There is an intrinsically valuable .com in a reserve auction. The reserve is at least 4 figures. I wanted to buy the domain for myself to hold or develop. However, I believe it is unlikely I will get the domain since it will probably be bid higher than what I can pay.

The .net version of this domain name is owned by a 23 year old, multi state, company in a niche related to the finance industry.

I thought about Fedexing the CEO of the .net domain company a proposal about selling them the .com version of their domain. Several post like this one: "www. namepros.com/ threads/ success-rate-of-selling-com-to-net-owners. 09224/" have discouraged me. It seems getting people to buy the .com version of their domain is hit or miss.

What would be the best strategy?

Since the domain has a reserve then the domain is owned by a domainer so if this is true then the chances are even greater that this particular domain has already been shopped to this potential buyer. Just my opinion.