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Do You Get Emails From Domain Sellers?

by kindsvater
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Seems like I've been bombed this year from people offering their domains. I have domain X. They have something very similar, about to become available, suggesting I buy it because it is so close in name.

Almost always, the domain is about to expire or was not renewed and is in some stage before final deletion.

Just a last ditch effort to make some money off a losing domain they are not renewing.

This is getting real old.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Tyler
    I've got several back in the days when i collected domains and sold them. At the most i had 50 domains at the same time on hand, and i used to get emails from desperate domineers that tried to sell me look-alike domain names like if my domain was bestcars.com he would try to pull out "Mike, i have a amazing deal for you.. I own greatbuycars.com" etc etc. I agree, this was cool back in 90s.. but now.. cmon hopeless domainers..

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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Yes, one in particular was eMailing me almost daily.

      I have the singular version of the domain, and they were trying to sell me a misspelled plural version. (I do also have the correctly spelled plural version too.)

      But, the contact URL changed with each eMail, which strikes me as suspicious. I started marking them as spam when the contact URL contained an obscenity in the domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    I have a .org and a .com , and one of the domainers bought a .net and wanted me to buy the domain he had. He bought it himself for a $10, and wanted to sell that for a very low price of $2400. Yea, right.

    I simply said "I will think about it" whenever he sends an email (and apparently he has multiple different companies) and he was religiously updating it every year, until he gave up a few years back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce NewMedia
    Yes, I used to get a lot of these emails....usually it was someone who owned the dot net or dot org, or some extension I'd never even heard of. And yes, like the earlier posters, they apparently paid $8 or so, and wanted $150+.

    I assumed they were novice IM'ers realizing all the domains they foolishly bought were now going to expire.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
    I get them all the time :-) These sellers, of course, don't even own the domain. They just attempt to snag it for you when it becomes available to register. They're not selling the domain name, they're selling their capture service.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      I have been exposed to the same sort of thing numerous times.

      Here's what I reply to the sender:

      "I am really interested in your domain as I own a similar one, 'mydomain dot com.' Please extend registration of your valuable domain, 'yourdomain dot com', for 3 more years indicating your ownership and then I will consider an immediate and significant offer to you via bank cashier's check. Of course I will need your full name and address in order to send your payment."

      I have never heard back a second time from anyone.

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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        I get a lot of these. (I do always own quite a lot of domain-names, though). Most of them aren't offering to sell me domains - some are, but more are offering a service to grab them for me if/when they become available.

        Meanwhile, whenever I actually want to buy a registered, not-in-use domain-name, and send inquiry email accordingly, I never get a reply. :rolleyes: :p
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          Meanwhile, whenever I actually want to buy a registered, not-in-use domain-name, and send inquiry email accordingly, I never get a reply. :rolleyes: :p
          You must not be trying to buy my domains.

          Or, if you are, you're not offering enough to elicit a response.
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    • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
      Originally Posted by Gene Pimentel View Post

      These sellers, of course, don't even own the domain. They just attempt to snag it for you when it becomes available to register. They're not selling the domain name, they're selling their capture service.
      Ahh. That explains a lot.

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      • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
        They are quite annoying to say the least. I've set up rules in my outlook to auto junk them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danielle Lynn
    Yep, I've gotten several of those emails, and like Bruce, I figured they were 'domain snaggers' trying to make a quick buck off of me.

    I just completely ignored their emails.
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  • Profile picture of the author thekaver
    i have been getting quite a few recently!

    what has annoyed me is when i kindly decline they try again a week later. Decline again and another try a few weeks later! they desperate to get rid of them
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  • Profile picture of the author lastreporter
    Just got one today. I politely replied I wasn't interested. He wanted $250 for a similar domain name to mine.

    If this pitch is like the last one I got a few months ago -- could be the same person I don't remember -- then I expect many follow ups with last lines like:

    "This is your final chance to purchase this domain. I have other offers... .
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    I got one of them lately from someone who is actually infringing on our trademark. I replied by telling them how nice it was of them to inform me, and to now please hand it over before we file a lawsuit.
    Which reminds me, I have to tell our lawyers about them.
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  • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
    Originally Posted by kindsvater View Post

    Seems like I've been bombed this year from people offering their domains. I have domain X. They have something very similar, about to become available, suggesting I buy it because it is so close in name.

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    Tell them you'll buy it just as soon as they have it appraised by a reputable domain-appraisal company. Then send them a link to an appraisal company that you own or are otherwise affiliated with.


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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by R Hagel View Post

      Tell them you'll buy it just as soon as they have it appraised by a reputable domain-appraisal company. Then send them a link to an appraisal company that you own or are otherwise affiliated with.


      Not a bad idea. And if they actually do it, tell them you've changed your mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick Pretty
    There is a variant of this scheme in which scammers pose as a representative of a government and claim that someone is trying to register a domain name that closely resembles one you own.

    At its core, it is a phishing scam married to a protection racket -- i.e., people get duped into providing personal information and paying a fee that purportedly protects them from trademark infringement or domain-name disputes.

    Such emails may appear to come from a government agency, a registrar or both.

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    • Profile picture of the author InfinetADs
      Yes! All the time! They get very annoying, sometimes they have a link at the bottom of the email to quit getting them but sometimes they redirect you to something completely different or it's a payment link. I guess the best thing is just to ignore it.
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