discuss Contacting Attorneys

[Cdomains]

I have a few legal domains I am considering doing outbound on.

Has anyone had any luck selling this type of domain, with outbound, to lawyers?

Also, do you think it is more risky contacting lawyers because of their profession?

I should mention all the domains I am talking about here are generic and not TM domains.

 

[Name Trader]

It's hard to sell a domain to someone who doesn't value it. That's just all IMHO. As I've said. Best of luck with your sales.

 

[Golan]

I think a divorce attorney would have trouble with the global reach of the inquiries from divorceattorney.com. I know it's just an example. But you get my point. They'd need offices all over the country, if not the world. IMHO. BostonDivorceAttorney.com would be infinitely better.

In this sense it's better, but overall DivorceAttorney sounds tons more solid than BostonDivorceAttorney.

And from simple business, marketing, and SEO point of view, if a divorce attorney from Boston takes a wise decision to invest in divorceattorney.com domain, it's very simple to implement geotargeting, so that all visitors from MA, plus all visitors who came from Boston or MA search queries, land on his business home page, and all other visitors land on a nice descriptive article of couple thousand words length about divorce law, and in the end of this article are served with Adsense ads or even affiliate offer leading them to a site of divorce attorney in his region, and this said smart attorney may get up to hundred bucks for each such lead.

 

[Kate]

Well the domains I am talking about are generic for example "divorce/attorney/com", which is not one of mine, but you get the point.

If you own a domain of that caliber, I think you should already be getting unsolicited offers from time to time. If you don't, either the name isn't that good, or it's possible that lawyers are not getting it. Then it's the wrong target group. Of course some industries are more difficult than others. We have to pick our niches carefully.

 

[Domain Lead Finder]

Yes all the sales were in the 100-300$ region. Nothing spectacular. As for legal action I do not know what they would sue me for, I sent them an email and I am willing to do the "time" LOL

 

[Cdomains]

I sent them an email and I am willing to do the "time" LOL

Funny!

 

[Federer]

If you have good keyword .net/.com, you can move them in the $350-$3K via outbound. Most attorneys/lawyers have more than 1 domain/website.

One of my "legal domain" sales includes JonesActLawyer.net ($3,500 via outbound).

Just make sure your opening email contains a price so you are not wasting your/their valuable time.

 

[Cdomains]

If you have good keyword .net/.com, you can move them in the $350-$3K via outbound. Most attorneys/lawyers have more than 1 domain/website.

One of my "legal domain" sales includes JonesActLawyer.net ($3,500 via outbound).

Just make sure your opening email contains a price so you are not wasting your/their valuable time.

@Federer

Thanks, just the info I was looking for.

One more thing, do you think contacting lawyers is to be handled differently than other prospects because of their profession and the potential for them having a negative reaction to being bothered?

 

[Federer]

Makes no difference at all. They are to be treated the same as any other lead.

 

[platey]

I have a few legal domains I am considering doing outbound on.

Has anyone had any luck selling this type of domain, with outbound, to lawyers?

Also, do you think it is more risky contacting lawyers because of their profession?

I should mention all the domains I am talking about here are generic and not TM domains.

prefer owning them so they cant lol

{snakes and rats will never become friends} allegedly

 

[platey]

Yes, that is my main concern as their profession and mind set could make them more likely to react in a negative way to being contacted out of the blue.

So this is why I was looking for other NP member's experiences with this.

you could always possess the same mindset eg fees etc eg you could always think of a high figure quadruple it and add a few noughts on the end lol

i'm sure they can relate to that {allegedly}

 

[platey]

I have a bunch of very good, generic legal domains, but I've never tried to reach out to lawyers through outbound for them, hence the reason for this post, and the advice I seek.

i have a few decent legal domains too

i see domain name investing as pretty much fishing in as much as your domain is your bait etc the right buyer will find your domain if they want it and hours sitting on the bank equate to yearly renewals

with regard to my legal domains etc i'd prefer to keep them on the back burner etc as i'm in no hurry to sell and more than happy to sit on my good ones for some time

 

[platey]

Well the domains I am talking about are generic for example "divorce/attorney/com", which is not one of mine, but you get the point.

So, there are plenty of possible end users for domains like this, but because the end users are attorneys I have hesitated contacting them even though these are very targeted domains and would be the exact match to their business.

if you had that domain you refer to in this post for example all you do is renew it for the maximum amount of years possible and forget you own it and dont sell it for less than 7 figures minimum

 

[platey]

In this sense it's better, but overall DivorceAttorney sounds tons more solid than BostonDivorceAttorney.

And from simple business, marketing, and SEO point of view, if a divorce attorney from Boston takes a wise decision to invest in divorceattorney.com domain, it's very simple to implement geotargeting, so that all visitors from MA, plus all visitors who came from Boston or MA search queries, land on his business home page, and all other visitors land on a nice descriptive article of couple thousand words length about divorce law, and in the end of this article are served with Adsense ads or even affiliate offer leading them to a site of divorce attorney in his region, and this said smart attorney may get up to hundred bucks for each such lead.

i suppose its knowing your market etc

i own privacylawyer.co.uk which suits me as the market is and or will be big enough for me to turn down initial offers etc because eventually there will be 1000's of them but just one decent one with the .co.uk which has been the standard in that country

and as i bought it at reg fee there is profit in it all day long but i may extend its renewal for 10 years and forget i own it for 9 of them until its time to renew it etc

but with domains including legal domains etc there is only one thing more annoying than not being able to afford a good quality domain - and thats being able to afford a legal domain and the owner of it not wanting or needing to sell lol {grins}

 

[Ali]

Make sure they don't bill you per email you send them

 

[platey]

Make sure they don't bill you per email you send them

obviously that cost is added on to price of good quality legal domain etc {principles etc} allegedly

 

[Ali]

obviously that cost is added on to price of good quality legal domain etc {principles etc} allegedly

Herein after referred to as "principle", therefore regarding matters of confusing words added to conversations that twist allocations of allegations around so often that Seller (herein after referred to as "seller") believes he is now the buyer. Sign here, here, and here. Thank you.

 

[frank-germany]

the fact that you are asking tells you
that you can't tread them same way as others

when I started my selling career
my former boss told me
to never try to sell to a laywer

is it really worth your time and the potential trouble?

how much can you make from those domains if you are really doing well
compare that with the cost of only 1 trouble maker

and you have your answer

 

[platey]

Herein after referred to as "principle", therefore regarding matters of confusing words added to conversations that twist allocations of allegations around so often that Seller (herein after referred to as "seller") believes he is now the buyer. Sign here, here, and here. Thank you.

its no different to computers - in as much as back in the day not many could understand computer language so those fixing them charged a fortune - now pretty much anyone can fix them or knows someone that can

it wont be long before facebook ? google? or amazon? etc create an automated legal website thats free for anyone to use reference and research etc

 

[accent]

Contacting a business to sell them a name related to their business name (Common Law Trademark) is enough to lose the domain in a UDRP case for 'registered in bad faith'. I suspect the OP knows this, but others do not.

When feeding tigers one must remember that you yourself are also food.

I had a generic word in .Com. A law office started using another form of the generic word as their name - and advertising to the domain industry. I dropped the name for other reasons without contacting the lawyers.

 

[john_karr]

What about contacting a lawyer that represent a large corporation? I am not selling a legal dot com,but a generic domain name a company might be interested in.