What will you do with 21 Views Within 1 Hour?

MapleDots said:

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

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jideofor said:

Hello,

A moment ago, I decided to do an outbound for one my domain name without much end user.

So this company has a product whose name is EMD of my domain name but their company name isn't

In the last 1 hour, there has been 21 views on my email at an interval of 1-2 minutes per view as reported by Streak. Initially, I dismissed it as not being important but on second thought, I wonder what could be triggering those views or could it be a glitch?

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namemarket said:

Absolutely brilliant of you thinking of that. It's also easy to do with little work and has another interesting benefit. How many times did you do it? Did it work on more than that one name?

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MapleDots said:

Lets just say it's a trick I use when I don't want to engage the company directly without wanting them to know it's me. They could claim I am sitting on an exact match domain for the sole purpose of selling it. I mean technically I am, but I don't really buy domains with only one end user in mind. If I think one end user is an exemplary match and the email address is better than what they are currently using then I usually initiate this process.

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atinc said:

Very interesting method but I guess it would only work for small size companies. Its almost impossible to attract big and mid size companies with this method cause whoever viewing them is not in charge for such decisions and they wouldn't even realise it would help the company.

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MapleDots said:

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

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alcy said:

it could be anything .. everything.. or nothing.
until there is an offer in your email box or landing page
fingers crossed

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atinc said:

Make sure those views are from the receiver. On streak it also counts the views from the sender. If you move your mouse on the views you can see the details such as location and which device the e-mail is viewed.

If all the 21 views are from the receiver, it could have been forwarded to relevant people in company to be viewed. But 21 views in 2 mins is something very unusual.

Are the locations and the devices different than each other for those 21 views?

Best of luck!

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Want2learn said:

Are there bids at Namejet? Seems like Tuesday would be a good time to follow up. If you are in the US that is. Tomorrow is one of our national holidays! Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday is celebrated tomorrow.

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Want2learn said:

Follow up tomorrow then. Even if they say to fly a kite, you gain valuable experience for next time.

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jideofor said:

So, I sent a follow up, there was another range of views for the first 24 hours, about 13 views. However, the first 10 views was from same location as was the previous location the day I sent it the first email and the last 3 views has been from 2 computers located in 2 different locations.

The domain name is actually an EMD for their vessel/carrier.

I currently have the domain name on namejet auction and I wondering whether to have it removed.

I don't know where this will lead to but let's see.

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4pm said:

are you using gmail?

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Windoms said:

Streak email tracking.
Do you see location like IP and city, whether apple mail etc..
?

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