{"id":5039,"date":"2016-04-05T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2016-04-05T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:31:15","slug":"domain-offers-a-twist-on-the-proverbial-poor-student-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domain-offers-a-twist-on-the-proverbial-poor-student-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain offers : A twist on the proverbial &#8220;poor student&#8221; inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of making offers for domain names, under the guise of being someone else, isn&#8217;t new.<\/p>\n<p>Domain investing presents opportunities that can be exceptionally rewarding. There is competition in the market, and there are only so many good names available.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid 2000&#8217;s, many LLL .com domains were sold to investors willing to play the &#8220;poor student&#8221; card.<\/p>\n<p>While not every such inquiry succeeded, in many of these cases the &#8220;poor student&#8221; eventually put enough money on the table, to entice the other party enough so that they did sell their domains.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10 years later, the practice isn&#8217;t dead by any means. But I&#8217;ve identified a twist to it: <strong>real students<\/strong> being used to acquire domains.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a domain portfolio holder, you probably have already done a proper evaluation of your domain assets. You have <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/weed-and-feed-your-domains\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>dropped the weeds<\/strong><\/a>, and fed the prospective ones. You also have defined a selling range for your domains, that shields you from having to be caught unguarded when the student offer arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Real students are being utilized by third parties, in a cunning attempt to cloak the actual buyer who makes the offer. Whether they are directly involved in the project or not, that&#8217;s irrelevant. What matters, is that they are used as<strong> soft proxies<\/strong>, a hard proxy buyer being a professional domain broker.<\/p>\n<p>Why are real students &#8211; <em>no quotation marks<\/em> &#8211; a vessel of preference for domain inquiries?<\/p>\n<p>The old variant depends on the real person&#8217;s abilities to consummate an acquisition, all while he assumes the role of a &#8220;student&#8221; which they aren&#8217;t. It&#8217;s very easy to uncover the real intent of those offers; there is no real person attached to them.<\/p>\n<p>In the new version, however, a real person &#8211; <em>a real student<\/em> &#8211; is instructed to establish a connection playing none other than themselves. The only asset that isn&#8217;t theirs, is the money provided by the real party that backs the effort to acquire the domain.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: If you are approached by a student for one of your domains, and can confirm their identity as such, be aware of this nice little twist to the &#8220;poor student&#8221; offer, and adjust your asking price upwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of making offers for domain names, under the guise of being someone else, isn&#8217;t new. Domain investing presents opportunities that can be exceptionally rewarding. There is competition in the market, and there are only so many good names available. 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