I noticed someone registered a variant of a domain that I own, it's a three word domain with a plural form (xxxxxxxxphotoS.com vs my xxxxxxxxphoto.com) and according to overture it's now getting a little bit of type ins every month, no doubt misguided bookmarkers of my own site. Keep in mind my own more popular domain had 0 type ins when I bought it, so the traffic is only from what I've developed, not natural type ins.
Anyhow I decided to contact the owner of this domain to purchase it; yeah it was stupid of me not to just register this variant at the same time I bought the real one, however I didn't plan on developing it into a TGP like I did either. So the owner emails me and tells me he's getting about 70 type ins per day on the domain, and I should make him an offer.
I explained what's going on with the traffic source (being my tgp traffic) and sent him back an offer of $50, which seems reasonable for 70 misguided TGP bookmarkers per day. I was willing to negotiate up a little and assumed that there would be some haggling.
This is what I got in reply:
"Sorry, xxxxxxxxphotos.com is worth more in the $10,000 range."
Domain guys, do you think this dude actually believes this shit or is he pulling my leg? That traffic probably wouldn't generate more than $150/year at most considering it's just TGP traffic. And actually that's a rather generous amount.
Anyhow I decided to contact the owner of this domain to purchase it; yeah it was stupid of me not to just register this variant at the same time I bought the real one, however I didn't plan on developing it into a TGP like I did either. So the owner emails me and tells me he's getting about 70 type ins per day on the domain, and I should make him an offer.
I explained what's going on with the traffic source (being my tgp traffic) and sent him back an offer of $50, which seems reasonable for 70 misguided TGP bookmarkers per day. I was willing to negotiate up a little and assumed that there would be some haggling.
This is what I got in reply:
"Sorry, xxxxxxxxphotos.com is worth more in the $10,000 range."
Domain guys, do you think this dude actually believes this shit or is he pulling my leg? That traffic probably wouldn't generate more than $150/year at most considering it's just TGP traffic. And actually that's a rather generous amount.
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