From: urlbuilder@hotmail.com (Al B. Bock)
Newsgroups: alt.domain-names.wanted
Subject: Re: Domain name speculators
Date: 5 Jul 2003 00:00:02 -0700
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"Simon Sheppard" wrote in message news:...
> Does anyone want to collaborate on schemes to fuck up domain name
> speculators? I'm sick to the teeth of them.
>
> Simon Sheppard
Simon, See you jumped over to DN's Wanted to solicit support to fxxk
up DN speculators. Wow, you must have really been burned somewhere
down the line. Why so much animosity! For my part, I have a few names
I've made small investments in and would be gratified if someone would
acknowledge the value of one of my ideas by making a small investment
of their own.
I'm not interested in highway robbery or gloating over my catch-that's
misdirected ego and not business. I think in general, a return equal
to the investment plus some compensation for time spent searching,
thinking, administering i.e. an hour @ $25 is not out of line. An
average domain name, for an average buyer, than, would come out to
roughly $50US.
If I had a name like MSN.com, and had beat their marketing dept. to
the punch, you bet I'd hire a negotiator and make as much money as
possible. If, as you predict, the sky is falling in on the U.S.
economy (an opinion I do not share), it is not the small entrepreneurs
who are at fault. I would point you to the large corporations who have
consolidated, lobbied for their special interests and, in essence,
have been instrumental in creating a sub-economy composed of
entrepreneurial individuals who are working to survive. If I had
something one of these corporations wanted, you bet I might have a
sense of "puerile smugness", although I doubt I would exhibit it.
To the average buyer, whom, I assume, also has an entrepreneurial
motive in mind, $50-$100 would be a fair price to pay for a website
address.
Lighten up man, or at least focus your anger at the right target.