[dawson]

I've purchased two £30-50k domain names through Sedo and one £300k two-letter domain name through a domainer – all experiences were pleasant and I felt the negotiations and price were fair.

More recently I purchased a .com for £7.5k for a new startup and the general consensus is the domain is worth a lot more than I paid for it - I have already had three speculative offers but I'm keeping it :) I also purchased the .co.uk for a very low price from the original owner who replied immediately and was very pleasant.

I tend to use an alias or third-party to purchase the .co.uk/TLD if I already own the .com as the seller will often bump the price.

I've had a couple of bad experiences, for example trying to purchase nihil.com and the seller wanted $65k – which it isn't worth imo, this was five years ago. I enquired again using a different alias a few months ago and they're now asking for $132k – meh.

There are some obvious techniques to not over paying, but all in all, it's timing and luck I feel.