Domain Names

[Ballistic Banana]

Why do people buy them in 2000 and keep them registered until 2006 and dont even use them.. Is it in the hope that that might get offers on them, if so how do you go about doing that.

TIA

BB

[FourWheelDrift]

Buy the domain name set up and index.htm page for it with "This site for sale - offers to....etc"

Use your current hosting site to host the page with a link from www.domain_name.com to www.ballisticbanana.co.uk/new_domain.htm using invisible URL masking. If you buy through somewhere like easily.co.uk this is easy to do.

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 13th September 20:41

[Ballistic Banana]

Sorry FWD how do you go about asking what they would sell a Domian name for?

[JamieBeeston]

Ballistic Banana said:

Sorry FWD how do you go about asking what they would sell a Domian name for?

You lube up with some Vas, then email [e-mail]

postmaster is an address that should always be configured (officially!)

i would cc to sales@ domain too.

BUT.

DO this from some Random Hotmail account.. just to get a general idea of pricing..

they will 99% ask for some stupid amount...

at least then you can drop the old hotmail account, and ask again 2 weeks later from a different address, offering 40% of what they asked for, and just hoping they desperate for cash!

GL

[FourWheelDrift]

Sorry thought you meant selling not buying. If there isn't a link and it just goes to an ISP holding page then maybe they aren't looking to sell. Maybe contact the ISP or you could go here http://easily.co.uk/ put the domain name you want in then when it says it's already taken scroll down to where it is listed and click the whois button, there may be a contact email on the info that comes up.

[gopher]

Ballistic Banana said:

Why do people buy them in 2000 and keep them registered until 2006 and dont even use them.. Is it in the hope that that might get offers on them, if so how do you go about doing that. TIA BB

The vast majority of corporate domain name buys are defensive registrations, basically they buy them so no one else can. When a large drugs firm (for example) brings out a new product it can result in a few thousand registrations, they will often register them for a fairly long time as well as this can work out more economical - a 10 year registration works out less than 1 registration + 9x1 year renewals.

Cheers

Paul

[Ballistic Banana]

Cheers guts found an e-mail address through easily
know to see if they play ball

BB

>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Monday 13th September 21:52