The majority of my domain buyers are corporations, start ups, and companies in stealth mode. I'm pretty sure the occasional proxy buyer managed to get a good deal, and as long as the price is right I would sell to a domain investor as well. All these categories of buyers have one thing in common: … [Read more...]
Domain offers : The “school project” commentary is getting old
January 17, 2017 by 1 Comment
Plenty of domain inquiries that arrive at the Uniregistry Market come from sketchy accounts. Some use proxies, incomplete or made-up names, or other bogus contact information. Those, are easy to ignore quickly, without spending as much as a second on them. Then, there are the student … [Read more...]
Most end user buyers have no clue what an “aftermarket domain” is
September 2, 2015 by 8 Comments
If I could have a dollar for every email I sent, educating prospective buyers about aftermarket domains, I'd be at least one thousand bucks richer. The fact is, end user buyers - as opposed to domain investors - are for the most part unfamiliar with the value and pricing of domain names. This … [Read more...]
How I turned a false spam email into a $7500 sale
August 7, 2012 by 5 Comments
As promised yesterday, today's 'big news' is that I turned an email inquiry - mislabeled as 'spam' - into a sizable sale. I don't park all of my domains; some of the better ones I build into temporary placeholders, with a designed logo and an email address to be contacted at. Some of them are … [Read more...]
Sedo deletes account – that was fast!
August 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This morning I received a notification that the Sedo account which made the offer I previously blogged about, has been closed. It appears that the account was only active for a few hours! The email from Sedo mentioned the following: "Unfortunately we have been forced to cancel the recent bid … [Read more...]
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