On average, I receive three to five bogus offers for domains in my portfolio, every week.
These offers are either clearly over the top offers, e.g. seven or eight figures USD, or inquiries without a dollar figure that provide bogus contact information.
In the past, I used to respond to each and every such inquiry, as long as they provided an email. This, I no longer do.
If someone wants to get off by quoting insanely high amounts of money, that’s an indication they do not understand the process or the market.
In other words, such offers don’t catch my attention and are filtered through as juvenile communications. I do record the IPs though, all thanks to the Domain Name Sales platform.
The second category, those that provide bogus contact information, is equally interesting to peruse.
Such inquiries indicate an actual interest in particular domain names, and thus enough reason for taking a better analytical look in the particular domain: Were there similar registrations in the past year, in other TLDs or gTLDs, or incorporating the keyword?
To summarize: bogus domain offers can provide valuable information for your domain portfolio analysis, without having to engage in a single email with the person that placed them.
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