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Recently there were articles in various domain industry blogs of EFTY increasing its landing page speed and how that might affect the number of inbound offers. I thought I would check if I had seen a similar effect.
Inbound EFTY offers / contact form completions regardless of amount or purpose in 2017....
(note If the same individual submits more than one offer for the same name I only count it as one offer. Quite often this happens at EFTY as they hit submit two to five times.) Note however that not all offers are legit offers as sometimes real estate domains get "inquiries" for real estate and the contact is not interested in a domain. On a job domain, oftentimes the contact is looking for a job. On a bitcoin domain oftentimes the contact is looking to invest in bitcoin. Note I had a stretch a few months ago where I was getting many spam offers - not lowball but guys trying to advertise a website by filling out the contact form. I have excluded those contacts from the count (all but one where they apparently provided a real email address was deleted). Also note that I have not priced or even put in minimum offers on most domains. I generally wait until the first offer and make adjustments. It would be very time consuming to price hundreds of names at once. Over time increasing the number of domains with minimum offers will reduce the number of offers.
January - 6 (5 for .COM)
February - 12 (9 for .COM)
March - 7 (7 for .COM)
April - 7 (6 for .COM)
May - 10 (10 for .COM)
June - 3 (3 for .COM)
July - 16 (12 for .COM)
August - 13 (11 for .COM)
Note however that despite dozens on contacts none of these converted into sales. My price expectations were higher than that of those submitting offers (oftentimes for domains with no minimum or they submitted offers in their local currency which cleared the minimum but was not a true USD offer).
Inbound EFTY offers / contact form completions regardless of amount or purpose in 2017....
(note If the same individual submits more than one offer for the same name I only count it as one offer. Quite often this happens at EFTY as they hit submit two to five times.) Note however that not all offers are legit offers as sometimes real estate domains get "inquiries" for real estate and the contact is not interested in a domain. On a job domain, oftentimes the contact is looking for a job. On a bitcoin domain oftentimes the contact is looking to invest in bitcoin. Note I had a stretch a few months ago where I was getting many spam offers - not lowball but guys trying to advertise a website by filling out the contact form. I have excluded those contacts from the count (all but one where they apparently provided a real email address was deleted). Also note that I have not priced or even put in minimum offers on most domains. I generally wait until the first offer and make adjustments. It would be very time consuming to price hundreds of names at once. Over time increasing the number of domains with minimum offers will reduce the number of offers.
January - 6 (5 for .COM)
February - 12 (9 for .COM)
March - 7 (7 for .COM)
April - 7 (6 for .COM)
May - 10 (10 for .COM)
June - 3 (3 for .COM)
July - 16 (12 for .COM)
August - 13 (11 for .COM)
Note however that despite dozens on contacts none of these converted into sales. My price expectations were higher than that of those submitting offers (oftentimes for domains with no minimum or they submitted offers in their local currency which cleared the minimum but was not a true USD offer).