Has anyone any experience of buying a premium domain from one of those "Domain Management" companies who buy up interesting domains and offer to sell them if the price is right?

My company owns the domains that reflect our company name - all except the .com - which is owned by one of these companies.

There is no website on it - but the WHOIS gives details of the owner.

They invite you to make an offer but don't give any clues as to what kind of figure they're looking for.

This domain is useless to anyone except my company as it's not even a real word - nobody could ever possibly want it.

Anyone offer any advice? Ideally I don't want to pay thousands for the domain - because my brand isn't big enough to warrant that yet - but I want to complete the portfolio.

This domain is useless to anyone except my company as it's not even a real word - nobody could ever possibly want it.

Then why does it matter??

offer them $20, and if they refuse, who cares, no one else will ever want it...make sure you tell them that.

You have to make them think it is worthless and that $20 is the most they will get out of you. Don't show that you are REALLY in need of it because they will sense it ASAP and will try to rip you off.

If all fails, check when they expire and register it before them.

Thanks for the advice ModDish & cantletugo - I tried offering them a small amount last year and they never even bothered replying (it says on their site that if you offer them too low an amount that they won't even reply).

Thing is that they keep renewing it...

As for what it's worth - it IS worth something to me but I hate playing "guess the price" - if they would tell me what they want for it that would be half the battle.