Reply #14: There are people [View All]

in the business of buying domain names for the purpose of selling them for profit. If you do a search on the owner of the domain you are trying to buy you may find that it is a business, with ownership of hundreds or thousands of names. Ownership can cost as little as $10.00 per year, so it's a small gamble to hold onto a name for a year or two, even if the name is insignificant. It doesn't matter. If somebody once owned it, they'll buy it.

Your best bet is to alter the name you want a bit, or choose a .net, or .org, etc., until the name you really want becomes available. Unless it is an exceptional name, they will probably sell it for a lot less after a few years.

Someone bought my husband's name (first and last) a while back. So I bought a .net after almost a year of waiting. The .com became available for an unreasonably high price within a few months. I waited and was able to buy it for $100.00 within a year. When I dropped the .net, that immediately went up for sale, same people, same high price. They may still be sitting on it, but I doubt it. Husband's name is unusual.