Domain cut throat business

[john_karr]

If a owner forget to re-register his domain name and you backorder it and you get the domain name, and the owner send you a email saying he want it back. What do you do in this cast? do you guys have sympathy for a individual that forgot to re register his domain name and give it back or your mentality is you snooze you lose? You want the name you buy it back. Now im not talking about a trademark name a regular domain name like goat.com for example. Domaining is a cut throat business from what i see in the last 2 yrs in the biz whats your take?

 

[Smiler]

You have a point about you snooze you loose. But, some end user used their domain for their own purpose or projects. I think if he was a domainer he would have never forgotten to re-register it. Here is a question for you. What would you do if that happens to you? But it is up to you to decide what to do with the domain. This is just my personal opinion.

 

[john_karr]

It wouldnt because i re-register all of them but your right a domain dont forget to register a name. but if it did ill be pissed

 

[htmlindex]

Feel sorry for him & give it back to him at a good profit :hehe:

 

[bricio]

it isnt easy to answer this
i think neither Smiler nor htmlindex r wrong... it depends on what u will do w the domain name :imho:
if u want it for a development go ahead... it is yours otherwise u could even sell it to the previous owner a litlle more expensive than reg fee (assuming he had/has a project reagrding that name and he is a domainer)
im telling u this cuz id like that would be done to me if i forgot to renew my name (actually i never -> auto renew :hehe: ) and i think would like too if it had happened w u
but ur conscious will tell what to do and i really think u wont be wrong if u keep it w u or sell him/her for $x - $xxx,xxx (expensive if it is a co)

 

[PowerUp]

Sell it to him for a profit. If the domain is important to him, he'll pay you. You're actually helping him by charging him so that he feels the pain in his pocket and never forgets to renew all his other domains.

 

[djmadfx]

I would put it on Sedo and email the guy the link to make an offer on it... haha. After he makes an offer, I turn it into an auction and advertise it everywhere I can. You'll find out just how much he wants it back then.

 

[DomainBELL]

you are entitled to a profit - if you even want to sell it back to him...

there's no excuse for forgetting to renew a domain name nowadays....
the registers have the free service to auto-renew and bill you...


~DomainBELL (Patricia)

 

[mhdoc]

It's not like the domain is cutoff without warning. Even if the owner somehow fails to notice to two or three warnings sent by the registrar before expiration, any website on that domain goes down the day the name expires. If it goes 30 more day it moves to the RGP period. So the original owner has at least 60 days to notice there is a problem.

 

[dnk]

Even for decent generic names which are developed, the earlier registrant is some times only willing to pay $100. Not worth the effort.

 

[john_karr]

Me I will sell it to him

Feel sorry for him & give it back to him at a good profit :hehe:

LOL I hear you man

 

[Devil_Dog]

If you forget to pay your mortgage, you go bye bye....

Same analogy for domains in my opinion.

 

[Michael]

It's yours... so keep it if you wanted to develop it. If you picked it up to try and flip it, he just made your job easier by contacting you. Unless he has it trademarked and could cause legal problems for it, make him pay fair market value at least.

 

[accent]

Gather information - web.archive.org/collections/web.html (aka: the way back machine), maybe Google has his website in cache. If it is just some guy with his not-for-profit hobby and the domain is not too valuable I might let him have it for reg fee or a little more. A quandry because I invest significant time choosing names, but it is not a good idea to be an a$$ about small amounts of money. Maybe write and say I paid $ to reg and used X hours, what does he think would be fair.

If it was a significant business then they should bring their wallet.

Domainers are considered cybersquaters by large numbers of the internet public. Incidents like this can help or hurt all our reputations.

 

[hawkeye]

Gather information - web.archive.org/collections/web.html (aka: the way back machine), maybe Google has his website in cache. If it is just some guy with his not-for-profit hobby and the domain is not too valuable I might let him have it for reg fee or a little more. A quandry because I invest significant time choosing names, but it is not a good idea to be an a$$ about small amounts of money. Maybe write and say I paid $ to reg and used X hours, what does he think would be fair.

If it was a significant business then they should bring their wallet.

Domainers are considered cybersquaters by large numbers of the internet public. Incidents like this can help or hurt all our reputations.

I agree. Make a few bucks and help out a 'not domain savy' non-profer, or small time owner. But if it's a good name and a significant business site, let them prove how much they want it back. Like someone noted, don't pay your mortgage and see how compassionate they are.

 

[italiandragon]

I`ll flip a coin , destiny will decide his faith.

 

[john_karr]

If you forget to pay your mortgage, you go bye bye....

Same analogy for domains in my opinion.

GREAT example man that the way i see it you snooze you loose. Mortgage company dont give a you know what if they have to take your home away from you. If its a good generic name its a rap you want it you pay for it or I sell it to someone else. I need the money to pay my Mortgage LOL

 

[rome2ng]

get some profits but don't over do it.

they may get pissed and launch courts ruling and offensive against you.

i will agree with $100-$200 "meaningful" profit about it

 

[ji]

Gather information - web.archive.org/collections/web.html (aka: the way back machine), maybe Google has his website in cache. If it is just some guy with his not-for-profit hobby and the domain is not too valuable I might let him have it for reg fee or a little more. A quandry because I invest significant time choosing names, but it is not a good idea to be an a$$ about small amounts of money. Maybe write and say I paid $ to reg and used X hours, what does he think would be fair.

If it was a significant business then they should bring their wallet.

Domainers are considered cybersquaters by large numbers of the internet public. Incidents like this can help or hurt all our reputations.

i mostly agree.

most people with domains don't know anything about this "business". they might say oh whatever i'll save a few bucks and reregister the domain when I feel like starting this project again. They are not aware of the people registering every single dropped domain.

 

[athletec64]

I don't really like the idea of backordering and snagging their names and trying to sell it back for a profit...i just dont do it