How to go about buying domains from cyber squatters

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TigerUK

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I'm trying to register a keyword rich domain, actually a couple of domains.

Every two-word .com domain is taken. So I'm having to add prefixes and suffixes to my domains.

e.g. TangoDancingOnline.com, MyTangoDancing.com iTangoDancing.com etc

these obviously work around the keyword criteria for SEO purposes, but are really SHIT for branding. They're too wordy, and can be easily forgotton.

I'm trying to get a domain similar to http://superstrength.com/ it's all owned by the same company it seems, nothing on there expect for 1 page affilate/adwords page.

Now I know that google is very well aware of these, and there's no way it's going to give these pages any love. No matter how much SEO you do on it.

However I really want these domains for my blogs, were I plan to put on good quality content for long term projects, do these squatters plan on making money by selling these domains? How is the best way to go about purchasig them?

I've just sent out emails from the whois page wanting to buy domains, but kept the email very brief, I didn't give an offer, obviously because I dont want to make the offer too big and then buy it feeling like I've made a crap decision.
 


TigerUK said:
I'm trying to register a keyword rich domain, actually a couple of domains.

Every two-word .com domain is taken. So I'm having to add prefixes and suffixes to my domains.

e.g. TangoDancingOnline.com, MyTangoDancing.com iTangoDancing.com etc

these obviously work around the keyword criteria for SEO purposes, but are really SHIT for branding. They're too wordy, and can be easily forgotton.

I'm trying to get a domain similar to http://superstrength.com/ it's all owned by the same company it seems, nothing on there expect for 1 page affilate/adwords page.

Now I know that google is very well aware of these, and there's no way it's going to give these pages any love. No matter how much SEO you do on it.

However I really want these domains for my blogs, were I plan to put on good quality content for long term projects, do these squatters plan on making money by selling these domains? How is the best way to go about purchasig them?

I've just sent out emails from the whois page wanting to buy domains, but kept the email very brief, I didn't give an offer, obviously because I dont want to make the offer too big and then buy it feeling like I've made a crap decision.
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If it's a domain on something like BuyDomains or similar, you make an inquiry, they tell you the asking price, you negotiate from there. Usually you can get them down by 20-50% or more off the asking price, depending on the name.

If it's a name parked or on a holding page pending development, like the one you just showed us at Network Solutions, your best bet is to look up the who is, decide what the name is worth to you, and make them an offer via email. Some parking systems, like Parked, Sedo, GoDaddy, NetSol, etc. have the option for the owner to list the domain for sale and you can use the parking system to make the offer directly.

Of course these people plan on making money off these domains. That what domain investment/development is all about. They're not squatting on anything. Cyber Squatting directly refers to camping on trademarks and misspellings. Depending on the name they might actually be turning a decent amount of cash off their parked domains. Traffic comes from places other than Google you know.

They also may have a collection of domains that they plan on developing, but haven't gotten around to doing so yet. You can't make broad assumptions about these things.

You're just bitter because you didn't register them yourself. Someone beat you to it. Figure it out. You need to learn about domains and what they are worth so you know what is a fair offer/asking price for a particular kind of domain. You need to learn how to negotiate the purchase of a domain. What's it worth to you? If you invest in a name how long do you expect before it makes back your investment and starts turning a profit? 1 month? 6? 12? 3 years? What is the long term investment value of the name? Do you think it will appreciate on its own or does it require development?

Etc.

There are lots of considerations to take into account. You might want to start educating yourself. Whining about how other people have the domains you want and calling them Cyber Squatters isn't going to help.
 
^ Well said! ^

I've just sent out emails from the whois page wanting to buy domains, but kept the email very brief, I didn't give an offer, obviously because I dont want to make the offer too big and then buy it feeling like I've made a crap decision.
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Depending on the owner, you might by having done this started out on the wrong foot because most domainers just delete such emails.

(In overall it leads to nothing but time wasting and dealing with dumb ass repsonses)

Show you're a serious buyer, make an offer from the start in your communications.

What your starting offer should be really depends on the domain.

Determine what your top budget is for purchasing the domain, then offer 40% from that as your first offer.

If that doesn't start the ball rolling then move on and forget about it.
 
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