When I want to buy a domain, I use Who.Is to find the owner and send a certified FAIR value through Escrow.Com
Unfortunately, when people contact me to obtain a domain I have, I get very lowball offers - to which I do not respond.
I also offer people to use my domains for Free as part of my project OpenDomain, but most people insist that they must own the domain. I guess they do not get that we are "Open Source for domains".
Open source for domains means nothing to me, what are you to domains? I have no way of linking open source in my mind to the concept of domains.
I tried to look what OpenDomain was so I search and I find some business solutions .com which I assume isn't your project so I look and I find your twitter[1] (I'm assuming) which has the same slogan you used, so I go to the website and what do I find? Just some default filler content for whatever template your purchased.
Owning the domain for a project or a company is key as that is a great part of their identity that they have to build up (especially for online applications). Maybe if your project "OpenDomain" gets some backing and is alive for many years and actually says what it does then maybe people won't have to own their domains but as of now your complaint of people not getting it is moot.
Unfortunately, when people contact me to obtain a domain I have, I get very lowball offers - to which I do not respond.
I also offer people to use my domains for Free as part of my project OpenDomain, but most people insist that they must own the domain. I guess they do not get that we are "Open Source for domains".