[gkoberger]

I might be misinterpreting the question, but the way to buy an expensive domain is to go through a broker.

We bought it outright (sent money to escrow), but a lot of people will do rent-to-own. For example, we would have paid $10k/mo for it, and then when we hit $170k it would be ours. But in the meantime, if we missed a payment, the rights would revert back to the original owner.