<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ba041c5-e809-4d6d-b325-cdc74416f4b1/7783A0D9-C265-46B0-806B-D7036C26CD56/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/03/startups-domain-names-are-gold.html" href="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/03/startups-domain-names-are-gold.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.startupprofessionals.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/03/startups-domain-names-are-gold.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/03/startups-domain-names-are-gold.html">Startups: Domain Names are Gold</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/03/startups-domain-names-are-gold.html"><OL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Pick the right name.</STRONG> This is actually the hard part, and is easier said than done. Review my previous article on this challenge – “<A href="http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/02/your-company-name-can-make-or-break-you.html">Your Company Name Can Make or Break You</A>.”<BR /></LI><BR /><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Register the name if available.</STRONG> Domains cost between $7 and $15 per year at <A href="http://www.godaddy.com/">GoDaddy.com</A> or <A href="http://www.register.com/">Register.com</A>, if nobody already owns it. It's a good idea to also buy between three and 20 names that are close to your primary address or that could be confused with it.<BR /></LI><BR /><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Otherwise, find the owner.</STRONG> But with 105 million names already in use, chances are someone else already snagged it. First you have to find the current owner, using <A href="http://www.domaintools.com/">Domain Tools</A>, or other lookup functions available on the net.<BR /></LI><BR /><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Negotiate for the name.</STRONG> The median price is now $5,000 for an average name, to $2.75 million paid for CreditCards.com recently. For these prices, you should consider an intermediary like <A href="http://www.moniker.com/">Moniker.com</A> or <A href="https://www.escrow.com/">Escrow.com</A> - for a $250 to $500 fee - to help ensure that sellers truly transfer title to the address.<BR /></LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7783A0D9-C265-46B0-806B-D7036C26CD56/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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