Been lurking for a while...anyone else 'hunt' domains ?

[Ging]

Lurked for a while but thought I'd post so see if anyone else 'hunts' domain owners ? :mrgreen:

I am amazed at how many premium one word domains are owned by individuals that do nothing with them and just park them. I don't want to go into specific domain names but to give an example :

A .co.uk domain has been owned by the same individual for the last 7 years that I am aware of . It was for sale 7 years ago at £21K. Then disappeared off sale for years and has been parked for the last 6 years (no contact details). The revenue on it probably is in the low hundreds a year. After tracking down the owner via companies house (Domain regged to company, own by another company, registrant director of other company etc) I find the domain is for sale at a price that , in my opinion , could never be realised £xx,xxx.

I would be the perfect buyer for the domain as an end user and the value to my business would be £x,xxx. What makes it even more nuts is the parked pages they are on list my business at the top :mrgreen:

I've found the same situation with other domains that are parked for years and the owners just 'disappear' . Anyone else got stories ?

 

[retired_member32]

Lurked for a while but thought I'd post so see if anyone else 'hunts' domain owners ? :mrgreen:

I am amazed at how many premium one word domains are owned by individuals that do nothing with them and just park them. I don't want to go into specific domain names but to give an example :

A .co.uk domain has been owned by the same individual for the last 7 years that I am aware of . It was for sale 7 years ago at £21K. Then disappeared off sale for years and has been parked for the last 6 years (no contact details). The revenue on it probably is in the low hundreds a year. After tracking down the owner via companies house (Domain regged to company, own by another company, registrant director of other company etc) I find the domain is for sale at a price that , in my opinion , could never be realised £xx,xxx.

I would be the perfect buyer for the domain as an end user and the value to my business would be £x,xxx. What makes it even more nuts is the parked pages they are on list my business at the top :mrgreen:

I've found the same situation with other domains that are parked for years and the owners just 'disappear' . Anyone else got stories ?

do you think they might have been abducted by little green men,i 'll keep my eye out for anything strange,i will contact the x-files and see if they could look into it for you,you will need to be more specific about locations and dates,all the best....i will be wearing a black hat with a pink rose in the corner of the bar at about 9.00 pm and don't be late....

 

[Ging]

Sorry forgot to put in my original post my best/worst domain name.


By favourite is 64k.biz (Bet of a C64 retro freak)

My worst has to

iwantedanastondb9forxmasbutalligotwasthislousydomainname.co.uk

Booze and domain regging not a good idea

 

[mat]

Your probably not the best person to judge how much revenue a domain name is making and how much its worth looking at your above posts.

 

[aZooZa]

The person who owns this name obviously regards it as a "hold" and sounds as though he's not bothered about selling it. There are plenty of people that do that. He's obviously on the right track if his parked pages show your ads!

 

[Ging]

Your probably not the best person to judge how much revenue a domain name is making and how much its worth looking at your above posts.

Was looking at selling 64k.biz a little while ago but it's part of my 'collection' now.

You don't know me at all or what I am involved with in the domaining world. Thanks for your expert insight though.