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shilmy

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Hi,

Do any of you has regularly sell your domain to end users? If so, do you mind share with me in this thread on how find potential end users for your domain?

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Sjarief
 
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I have been trying this End User contact process for a bit now. I have not had any success and I understand it is a difficult process but I thought I would run by the experts here the email I am sending out. I used parts of some emails listed in this thread but any feedback would be appreciated. Maybe I am not talking the domain up enough, offering enough domain information or getting the wrong contact info. Are there any red flags in this text I should change?

I have been using whois and manta.com for contacts.

Here is my email:

Title: xxxxx.com Domain Name is for sale.

Email:

First Last, Director, (Company)

Hello. My name is First Last and I am the owner of the domain name xxxxx.com. I am contacting you to let you know this domain is available for purchase.
I believe owning this domain will further your online presence and benefit your company.

If you are interested in this domain, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you for your time,

First Last
Domains @ domainpier.com
Cell: (nnn) nnn-nnnn


Paypal verified since 2000:

Escrow Approved:
escrow.com


That is very similar to my letter, which I have had some nice success with. While it could possibly be improved, I doubt it is what is holding you back. One thing, though, if you are using one of your domains for for your email and/or in your sales letter signature, make sure it resolves. On days I send out emails, I find that I get more traffic to my domain that I use for email and in my signature. Other than that, your sales email makes sense and seems like it came from a real person.

Would you care to share the domains you are pitching and how you go about finding potential buyers? These two factors are what have made the biggest difference for me.

I find my success begins with the domain. There are a lot of ways to mess up even if you have a good domain, but pitching domains that are at the very least average is required for success. I send out 20-30 emails per domain, and I nearly always get multiple responses for a .com that makes sense. .Org's and .net's that make sense and that would truly be an upgrade for the potential buyers also do well. Anything else is a hard sell, for me at least.

The other day, someone sent me an email re: sms-free.ws and free-sms.mx as a domain "I may be interested in." While I do have a domain that contains "sms," I would never be interested in those two, and IMO, people spamming stuff like that is hurting the rest of us...
 
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That is very similar to my letter, which I have had some nice success with. While it could possibly be improved, I doubt it is what is holding you back. One thing, though, if you are using one of your domains for for your email and/or in your sales letter signature, make sure it resolves. On days I send out emails, I find that I get more traffic to my domain that I use for email and in my signature. Other than that, your sales email makes sense and seems like it came from a real person.

Would you care to share the domains you are pitching and how you go about finding potential buyers? These two factors are what have made the biggest difference for me.

I find my success begins with the domain. There are a lot of ways to mess up even if you have a good domain, but pitching domains that are at the very least average is required for success. I send out 20-30 emails per domain, and I nearly always get multiple responses for a .com that makes sense. .Org's and .net's that make sense and that would truly be an upgrade for the potential buyers also do well. Anything else is a hard sell, for me at least.

The other day, someone sent me an email re: sms-free.ws and free-sms.mx as a domain "I may be interested in." While I do have a domain that contains "sms," I would never be interested in those two, and IMO, people spamming stuff like that is hurting the rest of us...


Thank you very much for the detailed and informed response. Rep added. Yes, I think my domains are not super and I my skills at finding end users has been limited to manta.com and whois.

I have been trying to push the following:

labtest.us
craftideas.us
sandboxes.us

I realize that non-dot coms are going to be even harder but I think these are worth trying to sell. I have had no responses but I realize I have not put in a huge effort yet. I wanted to make sure my email was not holding me back though.
 
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Yeah, I would say the domains are probably the main issue here. .Com, .org, and .net are much easier to sell in my experience. You may get lucky with pitching a .us, but they have been tough sells for me. I like the extension, but I have had no luck with pitching them. I've gotten the "how much?" response a couple times with .us names (I have many, but I think I've pitched less than 5), and most of mine are around the same quality as yours. With those type of names, I think I could sell 1 in 10 for $200-300. I'm pulling that number out of thin air, so take it as just a guess :). If that held true, though, and if I had paid reg fee for those 10, that could still be a decent ROI, depending on how long it took me to find prospects.

As far as finding prospects, whois is a very good place to start, and I haven't used manta, but I plan to check it out soon. I find a lot of prospects in Google, mostly companies who are advertising for the given domain's keyword(s) and on the 2nd-4th pages of the SERPS. I also use some of the search modifiers found in the bottom section of this page.

I took a look at your names, and I think lunchboxes dot co and pottingsoil dot co might have a decent chance of selling to end users. I own only a couple of .co's and have never sold one, so I really have no feel for how prospects will respond... H
 
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I agree that .com domains are the best for selling to end-users, but personally i sold much more non .coms to end-users. I guess ratio is 90%/10% in favour of non .coms.
 
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I agree that .com domains are the best for selling to end-users, but personally i sold much more non .coms to end-users. I guess ratio is 90%/10% in favour of non .coms.

me too I have sold more non .com's but that has only to do with the .com quality I had pitched so far

My best sellers are domain hacks btw, endusers love this type of domains (if they are good!).

Rest assured selling fair priced quality .com domains is the easiest thing ever, but I just don't have enough of them and only 3-4 with upper $xx.xxx potential, and that is what I want for them!
 
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Hello all,

does anyone by chance have Federer's end-user email template? I remember he posted it here sometime back. I am experimenting with different ones, and I'd like to try his, him being one of the most skilled domainers on namepros.

Matt
 
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Hi All

Please help me solve my problem

I sent several emails to potential end users and i use professional email but i often got message like this
"Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender"

How to handle spam filter like this.

I also have a polling.
According to you all which method is the best for selling domains in price range high $xxx - low $xx,xxx?
a) Order Sedo Home Page
b) Order Afternic Home Page
c) Order Godaddy Premium Listing
d) List your domains for sale at Ebay
e) List your domains for sale at Boxcar.com
f) List your domains for sale at NamePros.com
g) List your domains for sale at DNF
h) Other methods, please let me know
 
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Please help me solve my problem

I sent several emails to potential end users and i use professional email but i often got message like this
"Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender"

How to handle spam filter like this.

I also have a polling.
According to you all which method is the best for selling domains in price range high $xxx - low $xx,xxx?
a) Order Sedo Home Page
b) Order Afternic Home Page
c) Order Godaddy Premium Listing
d) List your domains for sale at Ebay
e) List your domains for sale at Boxcar.com
f) List your domains for sale at NamePros.com
g) List your domains for sale at DNF
h) Other methods, please let me know

does not have to be a spam filter problem, there are many death emails around, if every 10th or so email fails I would not worry about it (emails you find on websites) and if every 5th or so who.is email fails this too wouldn't worry me much, if it's higher then that, I would check out my pitch, quoting myself here:

Basically you want to avoid certain obviously spammy words in your mail, unusual punctuation, avoid all caps and colouring your text, be careful with choosing the title, don't use a free email, make sure your email/IP is not blacklisted, if you really must use a hyperlink use it only once, no images

regarding your poll, well you made it already in the enduser thread, so there is your answer, h.) LOL
 
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I need to find end users to , " ZodiakCasino.com " Please help .
 
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I need to find end users to , " ZodiakCasino.com " Please help .

read this thread and you'll find all you need :tu:

or hire a broker but this will be hard for that domain, unless you are ok with paying for pitching it to endusers.
 
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Who is the best domain broker here? I have several great domains to be sold to end users in range $xx.xxx or more.
 
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Who is the best domain broker here? I have several great domains to be sold to end users in range $xx.xxx or more.

"End User King" was saying he could sell on your behalf but haven't heard from him for a while. See his posts above.

"Federer" is great at selling his own but don't think he'd be interested to sell others which in your case he's making a big mistake because he could really earn some dosh off you! The guy is really talented.
 
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I don't know who is the best (anyone can find leads for $xxx names but the higher the price the harder the research), I am always interested in brokering REAL premium names in popular niches (com, net, org only) with reasonable asking prices, if you got some you can send me a PM and I will look thru them :)
 
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I need help from end user expert brokers. I have xxx.com, and i have a potential buyer who own xxx.tld. I also have aaa.com and i have a potential buyer who own myaaa.com. I also have several generic products domains .com and i have several potential buyers who use their company names as their domains. I'm willing to pay up to 30% commission. Please pm me if you are interested. I used namepros salesletter template to contact them but no response at all. Do you mind sharing your salesletter that works??
 
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The WHO.IS clearly shows that you do not any these domain names or any 3 letter domains for that matter.
Do not blatantly lie and decieve in this forum again or you will be banned.
 
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Federer i bet you don't know what i mean. I write xxx.com or yyy.com or aaa.com because i do not want to mention my domain here. I just make an example not the real one. If you want to be my domain broker please pm me. I will give you 69 domains to be sold to end users and or potential buyers. I will give you a list of potential end user email addresses. I get them from who is, jigsaw and manta.
 
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If I'm pitching a .net to someone should I mention I have the .org as well?
 
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If I'm pitching a .net to someone should I mention I have the .org as well?

That would be deadly 8-X

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Federer i bet you don't know what i mean. I write xxx.com or yyy.com or aaa.com because i do not want to mention my domain here. I just make an example not the real one. If you want to be my domain broker please pm me. I will give you 69 domains to be sold to end users and or potential buyers. I will give you a list of potential end user email addresses. I get them from who is, jigsaw and manta.

So you mean you have some LLL.com domains. If this is what you mean then you should have no prob selling those thro Sedo. Why pay 30% ..??!
 
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