Emails from domainers selling crap names

[biggie]

i thought it would be real nice to share some of the emails i receive from fellow domainers trying to sell their crappy names.

hopefully, some of you will read these and stop sending or see the mistakes they make so you won't make them too.

here is one from Andrew Brad, and if he is a member here...he's a clown! why? because he included every other email address he sent this mail to. thus one could harvest his list and spam them too.

To whom it may concern,



The premium generic aged domain FREDLOYAINSURANCE.NET is up for sale and I am emailing several parties that have registered similar domains OR use "[fredloya], [fredloya insurance], [loya insurance], [fred loya claims], [fredloya locations] etc." as keywords in their advertising campaigns.This is a 6-year old domain, with no drops since it was registered in 2006.



According to the Google Traffic Estimator the keywords ‘Fredloya Insurance’ receive over 40,500 searches every month, thus making this a high SEO premium domain worth thousands of dollars.



Right now, the asking price for FredLoyaInsurance.net is just $250, and is available on a first-come-first-served basis. Yes, you read it right, $250 ONLY.



This is a great opportunity to acquire a great domain at a throw-away price. If you have any questions don't hesitate to send me an email or call me directly at +91. 939-2774-412.



All transactions will held either via Paypal or via the secure services of Escrow.com.



Best regards,



Andrew Brad


Domain Broker, FredloyaInsurance.net

+91. 939-2774-412

if any of you receive such emails, feel free to post them so we can expose the spammers.

Thanks

 

[Kate]

A regular spammer:

From: "Category Defining Domains" <[email protected]>

Dear premium domain name investor, developer.

Our firm is now offering some very ultra premium generic domain names.
Here is what we have below and many more on our page link. Financing is
available on all of our domains and we are looking at full
sell outs, rentals, leasing and joint venture offers:


Sushi.com
Pasta.com
Livestock.com
Salons.com
Salinas.com
ScubaGear.com
HealthSupplements.com
AspenHotels.com
CharlotteHotels.com
CharlotteRestaurants.com
SushiRestaurants.com
JapaneseRestaurants.com

Sushi.net
Cosmetics.net
Supplements.net

Cosmetics.org
Juice.org

and many more domains we own here:
http://www.categorydefiningdomains.com

Category Defining Domains
549 Heartland Ave
Sugar Grove IL 60554


Thanks
Bob


To be removed from our email newsletter at CategoryDefiningDomains.com
simply reply to this email with remove me in the subject line

A real shame that quality domains are 'promoted' like that, in fact their value is hurt by the unwanted exposure.

Didn't he change surname ? Last time it was Chad or something like that :blink:

 

[Expron]

I received this email over the weekend:

saber-and-sword-collector.com is your domain name, correct?

From:
"Richard Everett" <[email protected]>
Add sender to Contacts
To:
Hello,

Since you are listed as the owner of saber-and-sword-collector.com, maybe you'd be interested in having a similar domain from this list:

CollectOriginals.com
CollectAmericana.com
AmericanaCollector.com
USACollectible.com

If you're not interested or I've reached you by mistake, please excuse this message. On the other hand, if you are curious about something above (or possibly other domains that are not listed), feel free to ask.

Sincerely,
Richard Everett

P.S. Here are some good reasons to think about owning an additional domain. Not all of them apply in this case, but they might be worth thinking about:

1. Upgrade to a better extension like .com.
2. Shorten your website's name to something more memorable, better for word of mouth, and easier to type in or search for.
3. Protect your brand from websites with confusingly similar names.
4. Get rid of hyphens, which are obstacles for people trying to type in your address and can look unprofessional.
5. Brand yourself with something more catchy or more authoritative.
6. Gain additional traffic from people who are already searching the internet but might be missing you.
7. Create a supplemental page with links to your primary website or a new site for a new project.
8. Focus on related keywords and niches for an SEO boost.
9. Invest in premium domain names for long-term appreciation in value.
10. In the case of country-code TLDs like .co.uk or .com.au, upgrade to an extension with worldwide reach -- for example, .com.

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[Archangel]

Received this today:

Hello Sir/Madam,

We understand that you are the owner of the domain name- <edit>,

We have a domain for sale which you maybe interested in - MiniBin.com. Since it is closely related to the keywords in your domain name, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well.

We are only asking "$1500" for this premium SEO domain. If you are interested, please let us know. Else, we apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Jason Reeds

This was a one time mail sent to you for this domain name. You will never be contacted again for the same in future. In case you wish to unsubscribe from all our email communications please reply back with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Sent from [email protected]
I encourage you to spam him & sign up for random junk with his addy. This loser deserves it.

THAT'S IT. I'm selling off my portfolio cheap since ASSHOLES like this retard pretty much destroyed 100% of my prospects. Thanks for killing he industry, shit-for-brains.

 

[GiftedDomains]

Fake name. Whois shows someone from India.

 

[biggie]

got another

from:[email protected]

Hello ,

We understand that you are the owner of the domain name 50yrmortgageloan.com,


We have a domain for sale which you maybe interested in - MortgagePortal.net. Since it is closely related to the keywords in your domain name, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well.

We are only asking $488 for this premium SEO domain. If you are interested, please let us know. Else, we apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
John Adams

This was a one time mail sent to you for this domain name. You will never be contacted again for the same in future. In case you wish to unsubscribe from all our email communications please reply back with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

"we thought" is common phrase used by these numb nuts, but if "they thought" before sending....they wouldn't.



---------- Post added at 04:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:06 PM ----------

A regular spammer:

From: "Category Defining Domains" <[email protected]>

A real shame that quality domains are 'promoted' like that, in fact their value is hurt by the unwanted exposure.

Didn't he change surname ? Last time it was Chad or something like that :blink:

got one from him too, so i spammed him back wih a list of my names

 

[GiftedDomains]

I now handregged gifteddomain.com (good addition for my name) for 7 dollars which was offered to me since months from several of these spammers. Hey thanks for the hint guys

 

[rmg]

Received one more...

Dustin Pace <[email protected]>

To whoever it may concern,

The premium domain telephono.com is up for sale at $1288 only. Since you own related brand domains, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well. We are sending this email to several parties, and the first one to reply back will get the deal. If you are interested, please reply back soon.

Thanks you,
Dustin Pace.

 

[Kate]

I received the same E-mail. Either it's a small world out there or he cast his net wide.

 

[Kate]

Subject: Buy FreeCharging.com
From: Bryan Thomas <[email protected]>

Hello ,

We understand that you are the owner of the domain name ###########.com,


We have a domain for sale which you maybe interested in - FreeCharging.com. Since it is related to the keywords in your domain name, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well.

We are only asking $1288 for this premium SEO domain. If you are interested, please let us know. Else, we apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Bryan Thomas

This was a one time mail sent to you for this domain name. You will never be contacted again for the same in future. In case you wish to unsubscribe from all our email communications please reply back with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Note that it's very similar to the E-mails above. They just move on from one fictitious identity to another. Losers.

 

[RevolutionaryDomains]

Here's More SPAM Garb (sorry for the lengthy post)

SPAM EMAIL 1 & 2:

Subject: cloudit.in

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Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2012 6:52 pm
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From Subject (Thread Messages) Date Size
Hello



We have cloudit.in and found that the domain is pretty useful for
you to explore market. If you choose to, you can "brand" your business
in internet. Do you know this domain can earn $100 each month in
parking ?


Please let me know if you are interested. We could give a fair price
and finish the transaction through escrow.com a international Domain
trade agency ! Maybe you can make offer in this domain name !


Last I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best regards,


Alice


Domain Investment Services Inc


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We have cloudit.in and found that the domain is pretty useful for
you to explore market. If you choose to, you can "brand" your business
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parking ?


Please let me know if you are interested. We could give a fair price
and finish the transaction through escrow.com a international Domain
trade agency ! Maybe you can make offer in this domain name !


Last I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best regards,


Alice


Domain Investment Services Inc


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Hello,

I am an experienced website content / article writer and can write original and plagiarism proof articles / web content for your website. The content is thoroughly researched to ensure accurate information. They are informative, copy scape proof & most importantly in simple English which is the core requirement, as 90% readers prefer simple reading.

It takes approx 2 hours for writing a unique SEO article / web content of one standard page consisting of 500 words and my rate is $10 per page. Thus, you can get five pages of SEO content for your website for $50 only. The topics can range from politics, fashion, technology, health, business, sports or any of your choice.

In addition I also do audio transcription at 60 cents per audio minute and logo designing for websites at $75 per logo. 4 logo mock ups are provided to choose from with unlimited revisions.

Should you want to see some of my writing or logo design samples, please do ask for them. I assure you of quality work and do look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
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[Jasonn]

i get loads of these every day, from the typical 'domain inquiry/'domain opportunity' to random names selling domains where the price always ends in '88' and the subject is aways RE: Buy domain name here.

rather than just pasting the emails, what can we do to shut these people down?

 

[infmoney]

Received one more...

Funny, he uses $1288 for everything like it's some sort of lucky number.He also spelled it wrong. It's telefono in spanish.

These kind of people are the reason emailing endusers is so hard.

They feel like we are either some idiot asking a fortune for a domain or that we are trying to scam them somehow.

That's why when I am only looking for low to mid xxx I send my emails with prices. It's been working lately.

 

[Kate]

rather than just pasting the emails, what can we do to shut these people down?

For a start, report them to the registrar, ISP and webhost.

Alice


Domain Investment Services Inc

This is a sneaky E-mail. These people ARE NOT from Justin Godfrey's DIS.

 

[Archangel]

This explains why I've more or less gave up on emailing. I'm ridding of a large chunk of my domains relatively cheap (see my sig) because emailing ppl seems nearly impossible these days -- that is, if you're expecting a sale.

It's not the only reason I'm wiping myself virtually clean (again, see the thread I link to in my sig) but you get the idea.

Funny, he uses $1288 for everything like it's some sort of lucky number.He also spelled it wrong. It's telefono in spanish.

These kind of people are the reason emailing endusers is so hard.

They feel like we are either some idiot asking a fortune for a domain or that we are trying to scam them somehow.

That's why when I am only looking for low to mid xxx I send my emails with prices. It's been working lately.

 

[alien51]

Please let me know if you are interested. We could give a fair price
and finish the transaction through escrow.com a international Domain
trade agency ! Maybe you can make offer in this domain name !


Last I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best regards,


Alice

I seriously doubt the guy's name is Alice.

 

[bmugford]

Two emails, on the same day, for the same domain, from different names

#1 from "Clifton Boyd"

To whoever it may concern,

The premium domain chickwise.com is up for sale at $250 only.

Since you own similar brand domains, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well. We are sending this email to several parties, and the first one to reply back will get the deal. If you are interested, please reply back soon.

Thanks
Clifton Boyd

#2 from "Perry West" -

To whoever it may concern,

The premium domain chickwise.com is up for sale at $250 only.

Since you own similar brand domains, we thought that you might be interested in acquiring this one as well. We are sending this email to several parties, and the first one to reply back will get the deal. If you are interested, please reply back soon.

Thanks

 

[DU]

For a start, report them to the registrar, ISP and webhost.

For the OBVIOUS spam this is one thing - but some of the names in here are just people trying to make a $ - no different from many of the people posting here.

I think there are clear lines but it seems to me that some people are judging others far more harshly than they judge themselves.

 

[alien51]

I also notice that most spammers use American-sounding fake names for themselves. Is it because Americanized names are more trustworthy???

You would see names like "Perry West" or "Gina Smith" whose IP address traces back to India.

But you would rarely see a spammer using names like "Mohesh Grandishvili" or "Xian Pao Shang".

 

[Archangel]

Even I had criticized many in this thread. And they all deserve it IMO. Now, IF I received a genuine email with personalize content & something that took longer than 15 seconds to write, it'd be different. When some asshole pastes an email into a client & shoots it off to damn-near anyone, that person is nothing more than the common spammer idiot who has no idea what to do & resorts to spam since it's all he understands. Send me a real proposal and I'll at least reply with a kind, "No thanks." Copying/pasting the same email template 300,000 others use & shooting it out is unprofessional & it kills (not hurts but KILLS) pretty much all chance of a legit domain owner ever making a sale.

For the OBVIOUS spam this is one thing - but some of the names in here are just people trying to make a $ - no different from many of the people posting here.

I think there are clear lines but it seems to me that some people are judging others far more harshly than they judge themselves.

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I've seen a few Asian & Indian names but yeah, I've noticed "Americanization" in names used, too.

I also notice that most spammers use American-sounding fake names for themselves. Is it because Americanized names are more trustworthy???

You would see names like "Perry West" or "Gina Smith" whose IP address traces back to India.

But you would rarely see a spammer using names like "Mohesh Grandishvili" or "Xian Pao Shang".

 

[av1atic]

For the OBVIOUS spam this is one thing - but some of the names in here are just people trying to make a $ - no different from many of the people posting here.

I think there are clear lines but it seems to me that some people are judging others far more harshly than they judge themselves.

Absolutely agreed. What's funny is I've looked at most of these emails being posted and even the ones that are written in rational and coherent form are being bashed. Jealousy/Frustration perhaps?

 

[RevolutionaryDomains]

If these idiots sending this crap would put forth any effort to actually finding an end-user, along with composing a viable, relevant and worthwhile email, then we wouldn't be profiling them on here because they would be emailing end-users, not other domainers!

Noobs are one thing, but these jokers are merely spamming other domainers in an attempt at either phishing or hacking. Most likely very few, if any at all, are legit domainers trying to make a sale or earn a living.

 

[alien51]

even the ones that are written in rational and coherent form are being bashed. Jealousy/Frustration perhaps?

Not jealousy or frustration. But simply getting lumped together with the rest of the garbage.

And to think that A LOT of domainers, are actually on the SELLING MODE. So if you are selling your stuff to someone who is trying to dispose his own stuff, you will just be pissing him off.

 

[johname]

Even if there written in rational and coherent form, there almost always either a very poor stretch to say its related to the domain that cause them to email. Or that the name is not remotely an improvement/interesting.

They bring domaining down to the point where endusers "hang up" on domainer emails. Its this that bothers me, but just the email in of itself doesnt bother me.

I do hate the emails from SEO people looking for work though!!! Because they tend to be smarter and tittle their emails in a way that makes me think I got an enduser writing me, only to see its a dam SEO dude. lol

 

[alien51]

They bring domaining down to the point where endusers "hang up" on domainer emails.

I am an End-User. And i already reached that "hang up" point already.

I figured that if i need a domain, i know exactly how to find it. You just type the domain in your Firefox browser (Google or whatever), see what comes up. So if you are a domainer who owns the domain i am looking for, you better post your contact rap sheet on that webpage if it's for sale. That's it.

If i needed to research variations of the domain i want, i can do all sorts of wild card queries on DomainTools.

Having said that, i would rather you "Don't call me. I'll call you". Translated to: "Don't email me. I'll email you if i want you".

Of course, i'm just one statistic end-user opinion. Perhaps there are other end-users who love getting proposals and enjoying all the sales talk BS.

 

[Kate]

For the OBVIOUS spam this is one thing - but some of the names in here are just people trying to make a $ - no different from many of the people posting here.

Spam is spam. When an untargeted or loosely targeted E-mail is sent in bulk to tens or hundreds of people, it spam and need to be called out as such.

Spam is a problem because of sheer volume, too many people are spamming their crap.

Today I think around 85% of global E-mail traffic is spam, that is unacceptable. Also remember that that stupid domain related spam is hurting us all. It gives a bad name to our industry. It also makes end user feel that we are desperate losers and they are doing us a favor when they offer $100 for a LLL.com.

Another example: you own xxxxxxxxxxx.org and somebody contacts you to offer xxxxxxxxxxx.com or the other way round, the exact same domain in another extension - weaker or better. If the seller contacted just you and possibly a few other persons like the holder of the hyphenated version it doesn't look like spam. But if your domain is parked for sale on Sedo, it sounds obvious you are a domainer, then don't try to sell your domains to a fellow domainer. Because it's almost guaranteed your offer is not welcome.

You see, it's not just about carefully identifying the possible buyers, you need to do research. But the spammers are too dumb and lazy.

I think there are clear lines but it seems to me that some people are judging others far more harshly than they judge themselves.

"Treat others like you would like other to treat you :tu:"