If The Name Is For Sale There are no reliable statistics available, but it's likely that the majority of domain names are currently registered by resellers rather than site owners. Therefore you have a great chance of buying the name you really want, even if it has already been registered. The obvious way to find out if the name is for sale is to email the owner. But before you even consider contacting the owner, read the following very carefully. It could save you a lot of money.
Domain names are an abstract intellectual property, they have no fixed price.
The sale price is arrived at purely as a result of negotiations between the seller and buyer. As in all negotiations, the winner is the likely to be the party with the most meaningful information about the other side. Of course not. It's not untypical for a reseller to ask five to ten times the amount from a corporation, as compared with a fellow reseller. Use your first name, or better still, an alias.