Literally EVERY good domain is taken

Literally EVERY good domain is taken.
Is it possible to find some good domains, inactive since 2000 or so, dox the admin, contact him on the phone and ask to buy it in hope that he doesn't know how much it's worth?
is anyone doing it?

Taken doesn't mean they aren't for sale.

I think what you really mean is every good domain isn't $4.99.

yea but stupid fucking domains like boating.com could cost 10k-20k usd
does every pesrson who registered a domain back in the 1990's know what its worth now?

I'm sure they are competent enough to do a quick Google search on their domain's worth when somebody offers to buy it.

that wasn't the case with baseball cards for example (people selling cards worth 100k usd on ebay for $30)
so why would it be with domains?

That has never happened though.

Get a hipsterme.me domain, there's so many TLDs now you can grab a good name in any TLD.

anything that isn't .com/.net is practically worthless

Something similar happened to a buddy of mine. He's a guitarist and wanted to register (his full name).com. The domain was already registered, but inactive.

My buddy did a whois lookup and found the e-mail that registered the domain. My buddy sent an e-mail asking to purchase it.

The owner actually replied right away saying "my name is also (his full name) and I only use this so I can have the domain as my email. If you want it I'll sell it to you for $1,000.

My buddy made a counter offer but the guy declined. Just too much money.

I see you've done very little research.

Motorcycle.se is worth over a million.

Poker.org over a million.

Beauty.cc over a million.

Poker.de a million.

Credit.fr about a million.

Etc.

You don't need a .com or .net name.

If you are a film/streaming related company, a .tv domain would work.

If you are making business website, a .biz domain would work.

If you are making a personal website for your portfolio, a .me domain would work.

Do some more market research before investing in domains.

It used to happen more often than it does today. About a decade ago I used to buy older video games off Craigslist. People would just throw an arbitrary price on their things. "$50 for the console and games!" I'd look up the price of the games, realize it was $300 worth of stuff, and purchase.

This doesn't happen today though because much more people are keen to the internet.

And I bet they weren't the original owners and didn't care how much it was worth and just wanted to get rid of it. You can find these deals at yard sales and flea markets every weekend.

All of that is completely irrelevant. Domain names aren't baseball cards or video games.

Domain names are a commodity on the free market, the comparison to baseball cards or even video games is absolutely 100% pertinent.

>You can find these deals at yard sales and flea markets every weekend.
You actually can't. In terms of video games, from what I've seen - everything for the past several years has been priced at market value.

Dude if you're gonna talk out of your ass don't state your opinions as factual.

Just because cow shit and gold is for sale on the free market doesn't mean they are comparable at all.

And I wasn't talking about video games you fucking tween. I was talking about good deals.

>dox the admin

Wow we've got an ub3r leet hax0r here. WHOIS info is public dumbass.

i ran into one of these fucks, the truth is you can actually sue the domain out of them easily enough. because the have to use it in good faith, and you can prove it is not so if they host nothing productive there.

>Literally EVERY good domain is taken.

lol that is so wrong, there are no good domains.

look at bitly

100 million dollar company, name doesn't even make sense.

there are hundreds of TLDs to choose from, it's not like they're all completely dried out.

Retard.

He's talking about a domain name that is valuable regardless of what is actually on the website.

one word domains are not good. If you want information about boating, do you go to google and enter "boating beginner guide" or do you just go up to your url bar and hit boating.com and slap enter?

What are you smoking? Microsoft wasn't able to get Mike Soft to take down his own domain because its the guys name. He has no obligation to host anything productive there or anything at all, you can squat on your own name for however long you like.

i'm not talking about stuff like that. i'm talking when some fucker happens to own your companys name in domain doesn't host anything on it and wants to ask a small kinds ransom for the domain. kinda what i ran into. still thinking about if i want to fuck over the retard. it wouldn't be too hard but i would have to spend some time on it.

Recently bought 7 domains related to cuckolding and sold to a porn company called dogfart for about $5k

>Domain names are a commodity on the free market, the comparison to baseball cards or even video games is absolutely 100% pertinent.
No it isn't you dumb fuck. Baseball cards were bought by fucking everyone. The people owning them are not enthusiasts or experts on the topic. Video games are likely being sold by parents, so it is the same situation there. If someone had the tech know-how to register a domain name 20+ years ago, they probably fucking know what they're doing. Owning a domain is a super fucking specific thing. Only very knowledgeable people do it. Comparing it to something like fucking baseball cards where everyone buys them is fucking stupid. Get out, retard.

Some of those are not worth over a million or anywhere near it. Poker and Credit, certainly - but beauty.cc even has a buy now price of 20k. The variance is extreme.

Any business worth its salt will want a .com or .net eventually - if you're small scale then you're the perfect target audience for meme extensions though.

Thousands of people do the latter, that aside - you are not the target audience for domain resellers. Register your boating-beginners.com domain for $.99 and be done with it.

If you don't have your patents in order, you're not going to take anything down anytime soon. I doubt you'd be posting on Veeky Forums if you did - tough luck buddy.

patent's are not required. it's enough for them to take the domain away even if you can prove it they hold it for no other reason than to fleece you.

sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't. patents might help obviously. or make it easier.

i thought about it first patenting the domain name as a brand (which we could easily) and then going at them. not sure if we need to. the guy got out native domain and company initials which is part of many brand names we hold. he hasn't been using the domain for anything since 2001. it would be a walk in a park.

That's the asking price. What they will accept is a different story.

I've dealt with domain owners and they can be heavily haggled downward.