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Uniregistry offers dating-inspired buy-now domains

Kevin Murphy, June 20, 2019, Domain Sales

Uniregistry has come up with a novel way to flog its clients’ domains, inspired by a dating web site.
It has published a list of 60 domains where a final price had already been negotiated by its brokers and agreed by both sides but the sale had for whatever reason not been completed.
The total value of the list appears to be $433,800.
VP of sales Jeffrey Gabriel blogged that the listed prices won’t come down, but that the sellers may decide not to sell at the stated price after all.
All the sales will go through the usual Uniregistry landing-page offer system.
Andrew Allemann has already bought one.
It appears to be a one-off (or occasional) proposition, rather than a new formal, developed, automated buy-it-now service.
I imagine it will be more popular among buyers — who don’t have to muck about too much negotiating a price — than sellers.
Smart sellers, from what I can tell, tend to base their price to a large extent on how rich they think the buyer is.
Gabriel said he’s calling this hook-up service “Missed Connections”, named after the section of Craigslist where people who make meaningful eye contact on public transport can post classifieds in an attempt to make contact with their near-miss.
I once told my girlfriend I loved her for the first time via Missed Connections. True story. Of course, that was back in San Francisco in the mid-noughties, a time and place in history when almost every meaningful transaction or life experience was carried out via Craigslist.
Nowadays, I hear it’s mainly just prostitutes.