I remember doing this as well for one of my first crypto startups in 2020/2021 Crypto Code.
I emailed the owner of cryptocode(.)com a cryptography professor in the US to ask him to give me the domain at a friendly price.
He told me to pay 3BTC at the time for both cryptocode(.)com & cryptocode(.)net i was just a 22 or so years old builder who didn’t have up to $5000 dollar to his name at the time. 🤣
I went on to buy cryptocode(.)us, i no longer own that domain name anymore.
Builders always build.
Just bought our .com for $25k from a public NYSE-listed company, cold-calling its CEO.
> realize the domain name belonged to a public company (shit).
> cold-call all board members then CEO
> follow-up everyday