Re:Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
by LeonM on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:41AM
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> It's not one-sided. There is an incentive on both sides to come to a reasonable agreement.
I believe that there was no agreement to be made. O'Connor put the domain up for auction, so MS was bidding against other buyers, not O'Connor.
> But the fact is, if Microsoft walks away from the negotiations, he gets nothing
I expect that the domain still would have sold, although not for price that MS now has paid.
Regardless of who O'Connor would have sold to it would have been a nice payday and he knew that. It was just a matter of waiting for the right moment to put the domain up for auction.
I believe that there was no agreement to be made. O'Connor put the domain up for auction, so MS was bidding against other buyers, not O'Connor.
> But the fact is, if Microsoft walks away from the negotiations, he gets nothing
I expect that the domain still would have sold, although not for price that MS now has paid.
Regardless of who O'Connor would have sold to it would have been a nice payday and he knew that. It was just a matter of waiting for the right moment to put the domain up for auction.