I get the usual dosage of domainer spam, on a daily basis. These are individual domains being offered, based on domains that I own, with hyphens inserted between the keywords or alternate TLDs.
I delete those immediately.
There is another category of email offers that fall in the “domainer fail” category, and I will explain its issues by using a real example from a Joaquim Rodrigues who operates URLideas.com
Our friend introduces himself from a Hotmail account. Fail checkmark #1.
He then proceeds to state:
“Iām liquidating a part of my domain portfolio.”
That’s Fail checkmark #2. When I hear someone is “liquidating” something, it means that they are trying to get juice out of rotten oranges. What I want to see is current investment activity by the pitcher of those domains.
Which brings us to Fail checkmark #3: URLideas.com has nothing to say for the person or the company. It has a lame “under construction” image and a fax.
Last time I used a fax was in 2009. Fail checkmark #4.
The attached list was in Excel, and that renders Fail checkmark #5. With the amount of viruses and trojans in the wild, sending anything else than a text document might immediately forward your offers to the trash.
After scanning the attachment for viruses, I opened it. There were three columns: domain name, TLD it belongs to and notes. The notes field contained prior sales of other TLDs for the same domain, or visitor stats. Jotting Fail checkmark #6: I don’t care about how much wespeak.es sold for; when you offer wespeak.asia the domain+TLD must “speak” for itself.
Finally, Fail checkmark #7 comes in the form of numerous adult domains, and Spanish words that I’ve no interest in.
Joaquim Rodrigues stated in his email:
“Iām sending to you this email because according my searches, you are one of the best investors in this industry.”
Thanks, Joaquim – and that’s why I’m now using your email as an example of what you should not bug the “best investors in this industry” with, when you want to “liquidate” your domain portfolio.
Geez, according to the emails sent to me from Rodriques, I was told, that I was “one of the best”… oh well
Well stated Acro. I always wondered how they could pick apart some of my domains, and then invest in the variations, and try to sell them back to me? Amateurs, or just dumb ass domainers??? Everyone of these emails gets the “delete button” treatment from me.
Hmm, flattery gets you nowhere anymore!
I would have substituted ‘this industry’ with ‘the universe.’
Domainator – My long lost domainer brother! š
Dustin – Agreed, spammers need to try harder with flattery š