question Does using yahoo mail address on outbound hurt you?

Using a yahoo email address hurts you in sooooo many ways, it's probably one of the most insecure webmail programs on the planet.

I suggest you delete everything, close the account and never ever mention that you used yahoo ever again.

PS. And for gods sake if you use that address for domain security change it immediately.

I think you should always use an email address from a domain you actually own. Some people will think it is unprofessional to use a free email account. Some won't care. So best to be on the safe side. The negatives are that the people who care won't reply to free email addresses. It's a percentages thing. Like all outbound factors. You want to improve every small chance that the recipient will reply to your email. Of course their is more to this. You need to have a professionally constructed email to begin with. You need to appear, and be, professional with all your dealing with a potential client. You need to be trying to sell them something they might potentially want.

^ And what @MapleDots said too.

Thanks for advice, seems i have extra work now.uuuugggggg

MapleDots said:

Using a yahoo email address hurts you in sooooo many ways, it's probably one of the most insecure webmail programs on the planet.

I suggest you delete everything, close the account and never ever mention that you used yahoo ever again.

PS. And for gods sake if you use that address for domain security change it immediately.

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I have used yahoo for years. What email do you use and what do you recommend using?

jaggs said:

Thanks for advice, seems i have extra work now.uuuugggggg

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There are stories here on namepros of members losing domains that had yahoo addresses in WHOIS.

If you use Yahoo your information is out there, they have been hacked so many times that someone can just pretend to be you and hijack your domain. So in this case outbound would be the least of your worries and security should be your first.

Yahoo also has a very bad reputation and looks very amateurous for outbound.

Good luck....

It's usually best to use your own domain name based email however Rick Schwartz extremely successfully used domainking/at/gmail.com and domainking/at/aol.com for decades.

It's definitely not limited to just yahoo. I'm starting to ignore inquiries using gmail.com addresses. Really tired of all the tire kickers and spammy posers with nothing material to offer.

Still, at the end of the day, it's really the content of the email that matters. But as a seller, using a Yahoo.com email address is not going to help you any.

you could use yahoo if your selling price were under 100$ but for higher price using yahoo would be very disadvantage

When you think of it, it's funny.

First of all, a domainer doing outbound is very likely a spammer peddling bad names.

So when you contact someone out of the blue, they tend not trust you.
The minimum is to identify yourself, include contact information that can be verified.

The other ironic aspect is that you are trying to sell them a domain name, but you contact them from a free E-mail service.
Why would they take you seriously.

Use an eMail address from the domain name you are trying to sell.

Only makes sense right?

I've used my hotmail account to secure a $6000 deal in the past.

I don't see why using a yahoo could hurt a potential sale, sure it's not as professional but end of the day if a company wants a domain you are in control i can't see why they would care what email address you use.

It's as if somebody were selling you a Lamborghini but he drives a sponsored Fiat for free, because it's plastered with advertising banners.
So the other party is entitled to think that a) you are a cheap person and b) you don't even believe in the merits of a good domain name. When you don't drink your own medicine it ruins the sales speech.

The best would be to use a corporate E-mail address on a good domain name, and have a website on the same domain name. Interested end users will very likely visit it, and they will google your name. What will they find or not find ?

Some good points.

The more I think about it, if I was to receive an "outbound" sales inquiry, I would most likely ignore it no matter the email address.

xynames said:

Think about it Expert, you have thousands of domains, you’re supposed to create hosting and email for every one?

And then have thousands of different WhoIs email addresses? since - ideally, you want to send the outbound email from the WhoIs email address.

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I have a custom eMail address for every domain I own. Costs me $9.99 USD per month for hosting. So... I guess that's just how experts roll.

The term is not “custom” but anyway if I understand you correctly...you’re monitoring a separate inbox for every domain you own or forwarding them all to the same email. And assigning each of these unique email addresses individually to each domain WhoIs.

I’d get into the nuances of what you must be doing if you truly are doing this right but if you are doing it properly and are communicating in out from each dedicated email either you have a Lot of time on your hands or don’t own too many domains.

Anyway to cut to the chase it’s a waste of time to set up a dedicated @domainname.com email for each domain you own if you’re hosting nothing on each site. If you have that kind of time spend it instead creating unique landing pages for each domain.

what about gmail?

xynames said:

And assigning each of these unique email addresses

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Incorrect, what’s with you and Whois? Nobody cares about WhoIs, if they do it means you are coming of scammy/spammy. I sell regularly to corporations, not once did they mention WhoIs.

I don’t come off scammy or spammy, so that’s a you problem you might want to fix.

You can’t get into the nuances of anything, because if you think it takes “long” to create an eMail address on a managed server then you are mental.

Have you ever used cPanel? Do you know what Apache is? Perl, php, Linux?

It sounds like you think you need separate hosting on each domain name... you know that’s wrong right? You talk about “each site“ as if it’s some incredibly desperate entity. 1 server, unlimited domains.

Just because you can’t comprehend how to do it does not mean it can’t be done.

I’ve seen your website... let’s just say you might have some things to learn.

Also, for any domain investor it’s something good to teach yourself and learn. Not just put your head in your rectum and scream “it’s too hard” just because you don’t know to do it efficiently.

Don’t be lazy kid.

namemarket said:

It's usually best to use your own domain name based email however Rick Schwartz extremely successfully used domainking/at/gmail.com and domainking/at/aol.com for decades.

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businesses said:

what about gmail?

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If they can verify your contact (included in the email), you can use gmail.

Having @yourowndomain.com adds credibility if you are not famous.
An identity that can be verified on linkedin is good too,

xynames said:

You talk a lot say little of value and prove my point. Sorry you feel the need to be so defensive.

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I would have gladly if you asked for clarification nicely. Now you can Do your own work, I'm not here to give some brat who talks trash a how-to.

If you wanted to know, you would have asked nicely for clarification instead of trying to talk trash.

Work on your website, it smells like amateur - which is why you have to explain WhoIs to potential buyers constantly and don't know how to get things done properly. Maybe learn how to automate a few of these processes that you think "takes forever" and is a "waste of time".

You do whatever you want, but don't :: talk me for having skill sets that you can't even fathom.

This is why most people stop contributing to NP, someone always wants to be a know-it-all instead of actually having a sharing of ideas and thoughts.

A yahoo or hotmail email might signal “scam” or “fraud” among some people.

As mentioned before, I am also using my company email: [email protected].

DomainVP said:

I would have gladly if you asked for clarification nicely. Now you can Do your own work, I'm not here to give some brat who talks trash a how-to.

If you wanted to know, you would have asked nicely for clarification instead of trying to talk trash.

Work on your website, it smells like amateur - which is why you have to explain WhoIs to potential buyers constantly and don't know how to get things done properly. Maybe learn how to automate a few of these processes that you think "takes forever" and is a "waste of time".

You do whatever you want, but don't :: talk me for having skill sets that you can't even fathom.

This is why most people stop contributing to NP, someone always wants to be a know-it-all instead of actually having a sharing of ideas and thoughts.

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Long on talk. Still short on content. And very defensive.

Back to reality....

I maintain separate inboxes for close to two dozen very active business emails for various genuine profit making businesses (NOT the sort of domains like this “Expert” maintains that aren’t worth spending the time or effort on doing any of this sort of thing for, which, with 1500 domains many worth six figures I still wouldn’t bother with creating separate emails for) all on Outlook. Maintain all the rules to move the various imap and pop emails to certain specific permanent in and out boxes and specifically created and needed additional folders such as Templates etc.

Also maintain higher security web based only emails, or cpanel only ones for a couple dozen other enterprises.

xynames said:

Anyway to cut to the chase it’s a waste of time to set up a dedicated @domainname.com email for each domain you own if you’re hosting nothing on each site. If you have that kind of time spend it instead creating unique landing pages for each domain.

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1500 domains. So, you have 1500 separate emails?

Or is it more:

xynames said:

either you have a Lot of time on your hands or don’t own too many domains.

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outbound spamming crappy hand regs doesn’t work even with [email protected]. So stop