Everyone and their grandma seems to have become domain brokers overnight.
Today’s spamming moron is CategoryDefiningDomains.com – a name that reeks of long-tail debauchery.
If your company name is a three-worder longer than John Holmes’s schlong, you must be really desperate to proclaim what you’re doing.
The email was addressed as “Dear premium domain name investor, developer” and the email address was harvested straight from the WHOIS.
That’s exactly the debauchery that I detest. It wasn’t personalized and it wasn’t from someone that remotely did business with me in the past.
And trust me, I have done business with a lot of people.
This digital douchebag promotes domains such as Sushi.com, Pasta.com, Salons.com and others. I’ve seen this happen many times in the past: a generic domain holder is duped by a spamming schmuck who then sends out a salvo of emails without any research or filtering.
CategoryDefiningDomains.com is also a piece of digital manure; when you are supposedly a broker of six and seven figure domains, you develop your own web site first.
I pity the fools that allegedly ok’ed this middleman approach to offering their domains for sale.
I know you are really talking about something other than your first parag., but I have had to resort to buying 3 word domains at times b/c there’s no 2 word domains left & I am not spending thousands to build my site.
I’m not a domain expert even though I learn slightly more every year & have some domains left that are parked (I know, very low level.)
So I hope you are only talking about the spammers out there, not us real micro business people who have to find a good domain when starting a new site.
Michelle
Michelle – When one attempts to appear to be a ‘professional’ domain broker, they need to get a quality domain for their business. No excuses. It reflects bad on one’s image. But that’s just the cherry on the pie; spamming is the pie, obviously.
Right, I understand, I was just talking in generalities re: all businesses, obviously if you are in the domain industry it’s another issue altogether.
Helps weed out the competition don’t you think?
Michlele
Can you show us how we can sent out 50 emails “at once” with personalised names attached to each email? Just to save time.
Or we have no choice, but to take longer time to sent out 50 emails individually with personalised names attached?
Your advice will be appreciated.
RAYY – Did you try googling “mail merge” for email?
When one simply skims email addresses, they don’t have exactly the type of personalized info that is needed in the first place!
When the emails were voluntarily submitted, e.g. by people who wanted to be part of a mailing list, that info would be there.
Hi,
You need a list building software.
Here’s my review for the 2 I use…
http://michelleprefers.com/category/e-mail-newsletter-service-providers/
If you have any questions, shoot me an e-mail.
Wish I was notified when someone responds to this thread.
TTYL
Michelle : )
Thanks for info Acro.
I will try mail merge.
I do agree that un-personalised email always look bad and unprofessional.
This moron has been spamming for some time and seems to regularly change domain names and identities, bogus contact information, etc… that’s the pattern of a spammer after all. Definitely not the way to foster trust especially when we are talking about domains that belong in the 6-figure range.
Usually domain spammers are peddling rubbish domains, I give him credit for pimping valuable domains but it’s a shame that premium inventory is entrusted to that moron. Its ultimate value is effectively depreciated because of the unwanted exposure and alienating of qualified buyers.
The owners should be made aware that their jewels are being dragged in digital mud by an incompetent wannabe broker.
Kate – I fully agree. This is a disgrace and gives domain investors a bad name.