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Domain Sales is the largest driver of revenue for the majority of domain investors.
After having spent the best part of 5 years successfully acquiring and selling domain names, I am curious to see what works best for other investors when it comes to selling your prized domain assets. It's a fun business to be in and this thread could prove useful for new and experienced domain entrepreneurs alike.
1) For some, the best strategy is to acquire and "forget" the domain waiting the perfect end users, thus extracting maximum value.
2) Others are more proactive and send out emails to companies that feel could benefit from owning the domain name.
Note: I am not sure if the majority of registries allow the sending of commercial-orientated emails to parties that have not given their consent/permission to receive those offers - even if these are individual emails being sent out one at a time. GoDaddy for one do not allow it and have a tight anti spam policy, under point 11 here: https://www.godaddy.com/legal-agreements.aspx
"We do not tolerate the transmission of spam. We define spam as the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) or Unsolicited Facsimiles (Fax), which is email or facsimile sent to recipients as an advertisement or otherwise, without first obtaining prior confirmed consent to receive these communications from the sender."
Would love to hear your comments/opinions on this point and if you know of any registries that allow sending of unsolicited messages, sent 1 by 1 to hand-selected companies. For domain investors that rely heavily on proactive selling to end users, this is a key point.
3) Other investors sell primarily to other domain name investors (resellers) through forums, brokers and other means.
4) Some entrepreneurs actually mix strategies between proactive selling, awaiting end user offers, selling to resellers and development.
We have all no doubt fine-tuned our business model over the years - without necessarily giving specifics, what works best for you in 2013?
After having spent the best part of 5 years successfully acquiring and selling domain names, I am curious to see what works best for other investors when it comes to selling your prized domain assets. It's a fun business to be in and this thread could prove useful for new and experienced domain entrepreneurs alike.
1) For some, the best strategy is to acquire and "forget" the domain waiting the perfect end users, thus extracting maximum value.
2) Others are more proactive and send out emails to companies that feel could benefit from owning the domain name.
Note: I am not sure if the majority of registries allow the sending of commercial-orientated emails to parties that have not given their consent/permission to receive those offers - even if these are individual emails being sent out one at a time. GoDaddy for one do not allow it and have a tight anti spam policy, under point 11 here: https://www.godaddy.com/legal-agreements.aspx
"We do not tolerate the transmission of spam. We define spam as the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) or Unsolicited Facsimiles (Fax), which is email or facsimile sent to recipients as an advertisement or otherwise, without first obtaining prior confirmed consent to receive these communications from the sender."
Would love to hear your comments/opinions on this point and if you know of any registries that allow sending of unsolicited messages, sent 1 by 1 to hand-selected companies. For domain investors that rely heavily on proactive selling to end users, this is a key point.
3) Other investors sell primarily to other domain name investors (resellers) through forums, brokers and other means.
4) Some entrepreneurs actually mix strategies between proactive selling, awaiting end user offers, selling to resellers and development.
We have all no doubt fine-tuned our business model over the years - without necessarily giving specifics, what works best for you in 2013?