Silly Domain Sellers?

[James]

So today I get a generic email from one of these guys trying to sell me a domain, I usually get 100s of these but this one was interesting because this was a profitable keyword domain (I have removed some information)

Hi,

We noticed that you currently own ______.biz (correct?).

The domain name _______ is for sale, which is similar to your domain and may help in driving organic traffic and improving SEO. There are also 68,000,000 global searches via Google per month. Not to mention that advertisers are paying $0.22 per click.

We're only asking $800 for this domain. If you are not interested, we understand and apologize for the inconvenience. However, if you would like to acquire it, please let us know for we are connecting with other online businesses and this domain will go to the first who replies.

Thank You,
Sam
Info@______.org
"if you want it...________.org!"

Now the funny thing this domain was actually pretty decent as the .biz for this actually makes money so I thought this was a decent buy, I did a who is look up and I noticed that no one even owned this domain they were selling yet all other tld's were taken.

So I purchased it for $4 and saved $796..

My question is how do these guys have a viable business emailing people to sell domains when they do not even own the domains LOL

 

[johno69]

You should email them saying you'll buy.

 

[Lucas]

So I purchased it for $4 and saved $796..

Nice!

My question is how do these guys have a viable business emailing people to sell domains when they do not even own the domains LOL

A simple script that goes through dropped domain lists and gets email addresses of contacts for similar domains then emails those people asking if they want to buy wouldn't be hard to create. Even at a fraction of a percent success rate and with no overheads (in terms of buying domains) unless an order is made, given the amount of TLD domains that drop everyday, I wouldn't be surprised if they make some money. Actually not a bad idea I reckon, apart from the fact that I hate getting those emails and they are pretty much spaming.

 

[sp@rky13]

A simple script that goes through dropped domain lists and gets email addresses of contacts for similar domains then emails those people asking if they want to buy wouldn't be hard to create. Even at a fraction of a percent success rate and with no overheads (in terms of buying domains) unless an order is made, given the amount of TLD domains that drop everyday, I wouldn't be surprised if they make some money. Actually not a bad idea I reckon, apart from the fact that I hate getting those emails and they are pretty much spaming.

But wouldn't you verify ownership seeing as you want to make sure it's not a scam and when you do, and find that it's not owned you're not gonna send an email back saying, "Can I buy it for $800?" You're just gonna register the domain.

 

[mylesagnew]

This wouldn't be intrust domains would it?

I've got 100's of these the last few months.

 

[James]

This wouldn't be intrust domains would it?

I've got 100's of these the last few months.

Nah I was from "Want it now" yet I also have had many from "CHEVRETEAU" and also saw a few from intrust...

Very annoying some of these guys, even when you block the email they pop up over and over...block the domain, they pop up on a new one lol.

 

[Data Glasses]

I am seeing an increase in this style of marketing as well, for me it's not too much and i dont begrudge them for trying to sell names ......although prefer they own them if they are going to spam.

I have only received this style of email for .coms

 

[Snooks]

Well i think they are a pain, but they have a chance of making money for no outlay.

I just bought the domain name sydneydirectory.com because i recieved such an email offering me it for sale, for $499. It unintentionally alerted me to the fact that it was dropping and i bought it for $69 through SNAP (Moniker)

Now lets say i didnt know it was dropping, i could have said to him i will buy it, in which case he could bid anything up to $499 and secure the name on the drop. Now if he had of got it for $69 like i did (min bid), then he would have made a quick and easy $430 for a few spam emails.

Its actually quite a good plan in some aspects

 

[techmo]

So I purchased it for $4 and saved $796..

Nice one! bet that pissed them off. You certainly took away their opportunity for a bit of margin bargin

 

[Chris.C]

I don't know if I'd call it "silly"... sounds like a pretty low risk high return business model if it can be automated - even if 50% of people do check to see if it's registered it doesn't cost them anything to send emails.

 

[joe]

These same guys just offered me "package dot com" for $200. Bargain, right?

But, umm..

Creation date: 30 May 1995 04:00:00
Expiration date: 29 May 2018 04:00:00

Not likely to drop anytime soon, and sure as hell not likely to be auctioned off for $200!