I ran over to Oxford Mississippi last weekend to see some friends, and run some research for one of my sites…
For those who haven’t visited — downtown Oxford is centered around an idyllic town square, where the city pulses with activity year round.
During the trip, we met a few folks for dinner at Taylor Grocery, down in Taylor MS. One of the folks who joined us had just opened up a new pizza joint in Oxford - right off the downtown square.
The moniker he chose for his new venture? Square Pizza. Aptly named.
Now, this fellow ain’t a domainer, but he understood the value of a domain name. So, prior to his business opening, he went domain shopping for SquarePizza.com, and discovered that it was taken. But he did recognize BuyDomains had it for sale.
At this point, he could have easily scurried to .net, .org, .biz, .me, or .whatever. But he didn’t. A non-domainer understood the value of .com. And so - he wisely negotiated the price down, and eventually spent a few hundred dollars to acquire it.
A smart business decision? You Bet.
And I told him exactly that.
I find it fascinating, in these small situations, to discover small business owners that ‘get it’. That don’t settle for hacked up, dash-ridden, number plagued .biz domains, and go for the .com gold.
So now that he’s taken care if his site, I gotta figure out how I can get him to deliver to Atlanta…
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Great story, Peter. To think there’s a NamePros thread where someone’s taking a rather “different” approach to this, and it’s caused an uproar.