Contacting a potential buyer through whois e-mail? Can it be considered as SPAM?

[shreder]

Hey.

As a part of my search for potential buyers, I'm taking few similar domains and looking their whois info.

I then take their e-mail addresses and send them all an e-mail regarding the sale of my domain.

Can it be considered as spam?
Do you think it's useful?

Thanks!

 

[bmugford]

Sure, I do it all the time. As long as your domains have a clear use so you can target potential end users then it works well.

Just keep the email short and relevant. They don't need a 2 page sales pitch.

Brad

Hey.

As a part of my search for potential buyers, I'm taking few similar domains and looking their whois info.

I then take their e-mail addresses and send them all an e-mail regarding the sale of my domain.

Can it be considered as spam?
Do you think it's useful?

Thanks!

 

[shreder]

Alright, thanks!

Do you just go and copy each e-mail address and send the e-mails one by one?

 

[bmugford]

I customize each email. It is time consuming, but it is the most effective way to do it.

Brad

Alright, thanks!

Do you just go and copy each e-mail address and send the e-mails one by one?

 

[weblord]

make sure you send it personalized and not mass and don't run some automated tool of harvesting whois email.

 

[shreder]

make sure you send it personalized and not mass and don't run some automated tool of harvesting whois email.

Why? If there's a tool that does that but send them each individually why would there be anything wrong?

Could be a good idea using such a script...

 

[weblord]

one that i use to send out personalized email is worldcast from fairlogic.com they're the best, the email harvesters are for spamming so i don't recommend it.

Why? If there's a tool that does that but send them each individually why would there be anything wrong?

Could be a good idea using such a script...

 

[bmugford]

I will also usually try to find an email address on the actual site. Those emails are used more often than the email in the whois information.

Brad

 

[weblord]

so the purpose is contacting a potential buyer? what i do is use the contact form within their website, they check it first.