Domain inquiries arrive in all types of colorful examples of how people approach domain ownership.<\/p>\n
Having been an active domain investor for more than 15 years, I can honestly write a book about the myriads of inquiries that often lack common sense.<\/p>\n
It’s not that a particular offer arrives with a price that is unreasonable. It’s that quite often, these offers arrive with a nonchalant, “I do not really care about the domain”<\/em> attitude.<\/p>\n Allow me to demonstrate with an example, why this attitude is from the get-go destructive towards any future agreement.<\/p>\n When you visit a car dealership, you are more than welcome to look around. You can touch the car, get in and out of it, test drive it even – as long as you are not looking like a homeless hobo.<\/p>\n If you decide to buy the car, however, you never tell the salesperson that you don’t really need it<\/em>, and proceed with offering 1\/10th of its value, or less.<\/p>\n Domain valuation is one thing, and knocking off a domain’s ticket price is another.<\/p>\n If you don’t really need a domain, but instead treat it as a commodity that you “could have”<\/em> and not one that you “must have,”<\/em> then save us both time and aggravation by not stepping foot into my dealership in the future.<\/p>\n It seems that thanks to these individuals, one has to create a long list of disclaimers to be agreed upon, even before a quote is given.<\/p>\n It’s a recommended type of defense, and often, protection, against those that trivialize domain ownership, and domain assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Domain inquiries arrive in all types of colorful examples of how people approach domain ownership. Having been an active domain investor for more than 15 years, I can honestly write a book about the myriads of inquiries that often lack common sense. It’s not that a particular offer arrives with a price that is unreasonable. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[639,269,1189],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-domain-offers","tag-domainers","tag-domains","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n