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OK, I'm doing this just for fun and as an attempt at a conversation starter. I just received an inquiry on this one and I normally just say its not for sale.

So what do you think? Water is arguably the world's most important resource. Where would you price this domain for an end-user sale?

Rob
 
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$xxx,xxx min

Bottle water

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Obviously many end users for this one. Perrier, Fiji, and Dasani (Coco-cola) comes to mind.

Low to mid xxx,xxx.
 
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Nafti said:
Obviously many end users for this one. Perrier, Fiji, and Dasani (Coco-cola) comes to mind.
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I don't know - the online world's not built like that anymore and I still think it comes down to a company that somehow uses "water" in its name, either as a brand or a secondary term.

It would be a great brand for a Canadian non-profit or charity related to water usage, supply and/or cleanliness, but they're notoriously cheap, even though they pay their executives private corp CEO-level salaries.
 
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The .org is the Matt Damon/Gary White initiative for getting people clean water and sanitization.
 
The guy who contacted me yesterday wants if for charity purposes, says he wants to give back by helping Indigenous/First Nations get access to clean water. It's hard not to be skeptical about motivations, what's in it for him? I can only assume its the corporate CEO-level salary, which he says is his background.

I said it would take a 6-figure offer just to open negotiations, and his response was:

That domain would be ideal... but I know the economics of securing it.

I suppose that's more encouraging than a $50 offer.
 
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NRCAN... Natural Resources Canada

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water, air, two things that are priceless.

I just looked up water.com and see what they're doing.

Such a huge commodity that everyone needs, also could be a name of a totally unrelated product or service. Such an easy word to remember and spell.

After just a couple minutes thinking, I'd have a hard time selling for under $500k if you aren't a motivated seller.
 
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domains said:
helping out the First Nations water situation is a noble cause, but they don't need a domain like this to do that. Something like FNwater.ca would be fine or a number of other hand regs anyone could think of.
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I'm not sure I agree. Using Water says this is a Canadian problem. Using FNwater says its a First Nations problem. If they expect to raise money, they need to portray this as a Canadian problem otherwise they're not going to get very far.

Now I think that there are fundamental problems between First Nations and Canada and that the current water problem is probably a direct function of that dysfunction. But that is a much bigger/deeper discussion.
 
rlm said:
Now I think that there are fundamental problems between First Nations and Canada and that the current water problem is probably a direct function of that dysfunction.
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That's the downside of self-government where there are few, if any, checks and balances on how those billions of tax payer dollars are spent.
 
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Fair point, I'm kind of assuming that they wouldn't pay near the top price for a domain like this, so should probably just register something that's available and describes what they are doing.
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To do what they need to do, they're gonna need hundreds of millions of dollars. I've read that the average registered Canadian charity CEO salary is 6-figures. Add staff to do actual work, directors, board members, marketing, web development, etc... So I think any serious charity can afford to pay me too. Of course i doubt they actually will, but it is possible.
 
rlm said:
You'd think so. I don't know the politics of it, but apparently its not getting done.
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Paying for it and getting it done are two totally different things under First Nations self government.
 
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