RE: Domain acquisition

2009-12-15 Thread Jurgen Pletinckx
| On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:52 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: | But what is the etiquette in these situations? I'd rather not reveal | to them | to what extent my friend is interested in the domains. To hide that I | have | to go through aliases or proxies. Which feels just a bit sordid, |

Re: Domain acquisition

2009-12-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Hm. But that really only holds for domains you're actually using, or have plans for, right? Can I actually find out which other domains the proprietors hold? A reverse whois, so to say. There are some services which can do this - they do it by downloading the .com zone

Re: Domain acquisition

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Morgan
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:16 AM, the hatter london...@bang.meep.org wrote: Try dnsaleprice.com - it keeps track of auction prices.  For instance, 4 letter, 1-word .co.uk's sold in the last year shows 20 words or almost-words, with decent words from $900-13 and some other 4-letters from

Domain acquisition

2009-12-14 Thread Jurgen Pletinckx
Dear lazyweb, If I want to acquire some domain names for, say, a friend of mine, I would obviously find out who the current tenants are, and proceed to send them a quick note to open conversation. To which they have yet to respond. Hypothetically, of course. As the tenants do not appear to be

Re: Domain acquisition

2009-12-14 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 14, 2009, at 4:09, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: But what is the etiquette in these situations? I'd rather not reveal to them to what extent my friend is interested in the domains. To hide that I have to go through aliases or proxies. Which feels just a bit sordid, somehow... 1) Offer more

Re: Domain acquisition

2009-12-14 Thread Jason Clifford
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:52 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: But what is the etiquette in these situations? I'd rather not reveal to them to what extent my friend is interested in the domains. To hide that I have to go through aliases or proxies. Which feels just a bit sordid, somehow... 1)