no .com left ?

i own the TLD for .co.uk and most of the world. the .com is owned and not used by a person who wont sell unless its for 50,000$ . a stupid amount as the domain has zero backlinks, PR or anything.

im a Ltd company in the UK , can i make them sell it to me even though they bought it before my company was formed?

second idea id to buy the hyphanated domain which will do well i think still and still use my company name so not confuse anyone.

thanks in advance

 

lots of people reserve the domains and wait for buyers.

 

Not much you can do unfortunately - All i can suggest is perhaps emailing them from an email address which isnt the .co.uk extension of the name you're trying to get. If they see you already own the other extensions then they will bump their price up - you may have already tried this tho.

You cannot make them give you the name, especially as they owned the name prior to your company being formed.

You could go the legal route, but its expensive and risky. Basically you have to prove that you have more right to that name then they do - having a registered company will help your fight, but its not going to seal the deal. This route will cost a lot of money, and if you lose, you lose your money.

 

ive bough www.my-domain.com so will link that to my pr5 main uk site and should do the trick , content will be unique but the database will be connected.

 

I even bought myself a .asia coz everythings gotten already

 

Try coming up with an imaginative name. Something based on a easy to pronounce word in another language. Japanese porn sites are a great source of inspiration for me

 

Now that you can .anything (dot anything) your site, what did you came up with?

how about LTD.LTD ?
just kidding...

 

Those would be domain squatters, unfortunately. I highly doubt you could force them to sell to you through legal action. This is especially the case if they bought the domain before your business was even formed. You just need to come up with a more original domain name. I'd recommend staying away from hyphens when choosing a name, but maybe this would work in your case.

 

my current site in uk is established so changing name will not be an option

 

They're not squatting on anything if they purchased the name before she even started her website.

 

#1. Investing in domain names is a legitimate activity -- like investing in land, houses, commodities, or stocks. Nobody is served well by calling such people "squatters" -- as if there were something unethical in buying up a vacant lot and then asking to sell it for a profit! The term "cybersquatters" should be applied to individuals who register domain names that correspond to trademarks or unique businesses that have not yet put up a website or else who register typos of established websites. There is a distinct difference between a domainer / domain investor and a cybersquatter. It's bad manners to call cops "pigs", soldiers "baby killers", and domainers "squatters".

#2. Do not register a hyphenated domain name. They are perceived as inferior, associated with fly-by-night businesses, and sell for little or nothing. Nobody likes typing in a website with a hyphen. And they will tend to remember the name of the website without the hyphen, which can send traffic to a competitor. Plus, it's very hard to spread the word about a website where you have to say "Remember, there's a hyphen between the words 'face' and 'book' ".

#3. There are things you can do. You can hire me, for example, as a buyer broker to negotiate a lower sales price without wasting time or becoming emotionally involved. You can investigate rebranding possibilities and hire me as a consultant to suggest the best and most cost-effective upgrade options. You can hire someone instead of me in those same roles. You can pay the owner's asking price in order to obtain his property. You can hire lawyers to try to steal something that somebody else legitimately owns, and pay a lot of money in the process, and lose -- or win and be cursed by thousands of people as a bully and a thief. Or you can give up and stick to the UK. I recommend hiring a branding consultant or a negotiator.

#4. The value of a domain is NOT based on its PR or backlinks, though those things are nice extras to have. The value of a domain is based on its potential. Domains with no PR or backlinks regularly sell for thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars. Unless everybody involved in the industry as buyer, broker, seller, or marketplace is a fool, then there's probably something legitimately valuable about quality domains as such -- whether or not they have backlinks or page rank yet. $50,000 may or may not be "a stupid amount". That really depends on the domain.

 

you cant make them sell it you. everybody got right to hold a piece of property and decide not to sell it.

your best option is moving on with a different domain. not sure of uk market, if most people there use .com I would recommend find another .com and use it.

you can check the groupon story in this case.
if you open a business with .co.uk or something like that and properly have copyright the name and stuffs you might be able to prevent them not open a similar competitive business. which eventually might allow you buy it, if you are lucky.