the ryan king

When I was first setting up this website, shopping for domain names, all of the ryanking.* names were taken (but unused by their owners). This is one of the reasons I ended up with theryanking.com.

Awhile back, however, I noticed that ryanking.com was coming up for renewal. Hoping that the owner would not renew it, I setup an auto-registration request at GoDaddy. Unfortunately, my auto-register script didn’t get to the domain before a squatter did. Now the squatter wants to sell me the domain. Here’s an email from the new owner/squatter:

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your enquiry.

A search for “ryan king” shows approximately over 209,000 results from Google.

Names such as ryanking.com are very much in demand especially as there are more than 60 MILLION domain names currently registered.

If you consider that just recently Fish.com sold for $1,020,000, MyPremierCard.com for $135,250, JMM.com for $55,000 and HorseSupplies.com $52,500 etc there have been many other 5 figure sales – I’m sure that our asking price could be considered an investment for a domain of this quality.

The price of this domain is £7,000 Great British Pounds or US$13,350
(close offers may be considered). This is a one off payment for the rights to the domain, however you will be responsible for paying the yearly registration (approx $30).
…

I certainly don’t think the domain is worth US$13,350. I’m going to make a counter-offer, but I’m not sure how much I should offer.

How much do you think the domain is worth? Anything? Am I just wasting my time and money?

If you don’t think this is awesome, you shouldn’t be reading my blog.

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