strategy Finding potential buyers

[Haris]

Hi guys,

Some members here might be aware of these strategies for finding potential end-user buyers but I am sure there are many who would find this blog post beneficial.

Firstly, you need to understand that you must find the potential buyers before buying the domain. Sometimes it feels like a waste of time when the domain at auction you want to buy gets bids over your budget or even if you win it, it gets renewed after you spend a lot of time finding potential buyers but this is a part of domaining and there is no alternative to it.

The pricing strategy, the sales strategy, everything is secondary, the most important strategy is the buying strategy, if you'll buy better domains with potential buyers you can contact, you won't have to worry about not getting inquiries for your domain because if you have a domain with potential buyers, you can sell it through outbound marketing. Finding potential buyers should be considered a part of the buying strategy. As @Kate often says to those looking for buyers after buying the domains, "Don't put the cart before the horse". We should do things in their proper order, find buyers for the domain before buying the domain.

There are many tools you can use to find potential buyers but the two I am going to write about are NameDroppers.com and Google.com, not the usual Google search but the ultimate utilization of Google.

- Google.com

Everybody uses Google to search for potential buyers but what most domainers do is searching for the keywords and checking the first 5-10 pages which does help but you can do much more at Google than you can imagine.

I am using GrillCatering.com as an example. By searching for "GrillCatering" (with or without quotes/space) I found many buyers but there is only one using the exact match URL i.e GrillCatering.dk

Part 1:
Search for:
site:GrillCatering.*

* = TLD, ccTLD or ngTLD, websites with exact keyword "GrillCatering" using any extension will be listed.

As you can see, here we have GrillCatering dot at/dk/ch/nl/de on the first page. All developed sites. This trick helps find potential buyers that can't be found by simply searching the keywords.

Now we will check for even more buyers, as there are multiple results for .dk, we need to remove the potential buyers we already found and check if there are even more hidden somewhere between the many results on the next page so we will search for: site:GrillCatering.* -.dk.

I added -.dk to subtract the .dk results which will bring grillcatering.com.ar to the first page. Often a potential buyer is hidden in the other pages and subtracting the one with many results is the only way to find them.

Part 2:
Now search for:
site:Grill-Catering.*

Even more potential buyers

Part 3:
Site:catering

Yes there is a .catering ngTLD. lol

Search for:
Site:catering grill
Site:catering grill catering

Even more potential buyers This will list all dot catering sites including the word Grill.

This also helps when you have to find buyers for ngTLD domain like I have Move.global and searching for "move global" doesn't help me out so I search for site:global move and bingo.. imove.global is developed Time to spam them

I did the same when I was looking for buyers for "fulcrum.io" (before buying the domain name). I searched for site:io fulcrum.

You can also search for "Keyword linkedin" or "Keyword crunchbase" or search or "GrillCatering" in Google news and you'll see more buyers.. I think using Bing.com or other search engines will help find more buyers but lets contact these first.

- NameDroppers.com

ZFBot.com and NameDroppers.com are both very useful tools. Both have their advantages, ZFBot has more to offer but few weeks ago ZFBot.com started charging $5 per month or $50 per year. One disadvantage of NameDroppers is that it doesn't support ccTLD's and ngTLD's except .us. ZFBot supports many ccTLD's and ngTLD's.

Visit NameDroppers.com

Search for "grill catering" (without quotes) in the search box.

NameDroppers "matched 213 domain names". But only shows 50 at a time. There is a button below the search box, "More Options". Click on it and use the search parameters to see different combinations of results to check all the registered domain names containing the keywords "grill catering".

I can play with the "exact order", "Starts with", "Ends with" and "length" options, like first searching for domains with length 1-10 then 11-15 then 16-20 and so on. Sometimes there are thousands of matched domains and the more the number of domains, the more times you'll have to change the length etc to see all the domains.

You'll often find domains that are unrelated to the keywords like When a keyword is "Yes" you'll see "eYes" in the results..They obviously cannot be considered a potential buyer whether the site is developed or not.

For great domains, you don't need to do research to make sure whether it's a great domain or not. But when it comes to the price you should pay, the list and quality of potential buyers comes into play. Sometimes there's an awesome domain at auction and you're willing to pay a high price for it but when you search for the buyers and find only a few and those look like they won't pay much your budget for that domain will decrease. And at other times you see a domain which look like 2 random words put together and you won't pay $20 for that but then you search for potential buyers for it and realize that this is a hidden gem which can be sold for $xxxx!

I am sure you all will benefit from my post and will make a lot of money, I spent hours typing all this stuff so I want 10% of your profit in my PayPal, Thank you

Note: Some credit goes to Jacob @wormfood .. the man who has the potential to become the 2nd best domainer of the end-times.

Brought to you by, The one and only, The Best Domainer Of The End-Times.

Haris.

 

[Rinkuji]

Excellent Bro ........ Thanks.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Well written and helpful to newbies and old G's as well...thanks for the post!

 

[Kamaldeen]

Hi, @Haris are we safe to say all the listed domain that has another keywords to our domain, can we call or refer to them as potential end user.
E.g
I owns caterpillar and I found used caterpillar.
Thanks

 

[Haris]

Hi, @Haris are we safe to say all the listed domain that has another keywords to our domain, can we call or refer to them as potential end user.
E.g
I owns caterpillar and I found used caterpillar.
Thanks

No, all listed sites cannot be considered as potential buyers.. There are no guarantees.. look at the website, how frequently does it gets updated, would they benefit from your domain, etc.

 

[Kamaldeen]

No, all listed sites cannot be considered as potential buyers.. There are no guarantees.. look at the website, how frequently does it gets updated, would they benefit from your domain, etc.

I understand your point, but what am saying is a well updated website with another keywords to my own domain..
E.g
I owns kamaldeen and I saw a well built and updated website that is operated on lawkamal or kamaldeenlaw, can I consider them as potential end user?

 

[Haris]

I understand your point, but what am saying is a well updated website with another keywords to my own domain..
E.g
I owns kamaldeen and I saw a well built and updated website that is operated on lawkamal or kamaldeenlaw, can I consider them as potential end user?

kamaldeenlaw can be considered a potential buyer but not lawkamal

 

[Kamaldeen]

kamaldeenlaw can be considered a potential buyer but not lawkamal

OK, thanks

 

[domainscouter]

Awesome post! Thanks!!

 

[VaibhavA]

Awesome Haris. Great read. Thanks.

Am gonna copy your post word by word.
Make ebook and sell em.
Gonna be rich quicker than selling em domain names.

Yes, this deserves to be documented and whoever buys it will be able to use this knowledge practically.

 

[obocar]

Good share

 

[Kate]

I don't want to find end users.
I want end users to find me.
For this to happen all you need is attractive inventory.
Everything else is details.

 

[Willox Perez]

Great info on Outbound! I agree with you when it comes to doing these strategies before you buy a name because you get a better idea of the potential buyers out there. Not only when it comes to outbound but these are potential buyers that might come to you as inbound leads.

I tend to use Zfbot a lot when it comes to making the decision on buying a domain and so far it has been pretty effective.

- Will

 

[ScalableDomains]

Hi guys,

Some members here might be aware of these strategies for finding potential end-user buyers but I am sure there are many who would find this blog post beneficial.

Firstly, you need to understand that you must find the potential buyers before buying the domain. Sometimes it feels like a waste of time when the domain at auction you want to buy gets bids over your budget or even if you win it, it gets renewed after you spend a lot of time finding potential buyers but this is a part of domaining and there is no alternative to it.

The pricing strategy, the sales strategy, everything is secondary, the most important strategy is the buying strategy, if you'll buy better domains with potential buyers you can contact, you won't have to worry about not getting inquiries for your domain because if you have a domain with potential buyers, you can sell it through outbound marketing. Finding potential buyers should be considered a part of the buying strategy. As @Kate often says to those looking for buyers after buying the domains, "Don't put the cart before the horse". We should do things in their proper order, find buyers for the domain before buying the domain.

There are many tools you can use to find potential buyers but the two I am going to write about are NameDroppers.com and Google.com, not the usual Google search but the ultimate utilization of Google.

- Google.com

Everybody uses Google to search for potential buyers but what most domainers do is searching for the keywords and checking the first 5-10 pages which does help but you can do much more at Google than you can imagine.

I am using GrillCatering.com as an example. By searching for "GrillCatering" (with or without quotes/space) I found many buyers but there is only one using the exact match URL i.e GrillCatering.dk

Part 1:
Search for:
site:GrillCatering.*

* = TLD, ccTLD or ngTLD, websites with exact keyword "GrillCatering" using any extension will be listed.

As you can see, here we have GrillCatering dot at/dk/ch/nl/de on the first page. All developed sites. This trick helps find potential buyers that can't be found by simply searching the keywords.

Now we will check for even more buyers, as there are multiple results for .dk, we need to remove the potential buyers we already found and check if there are even more hidden somewhere between the many results on the next page so we will search for: site:GrillCatering.* -.dk.

I added -.dk to subtract the .dk results which will bring grillcatering.com.ar to the first page. Often a potential buyer is hidden in the other pages and subtracting the one with many results is the only way to find them.

Part 2:
Now search for:
site:Grill-Catering.*

Even more potential buyers

Part 3:
Site:catering

Yes there is a .catering ngTLD. lol

Search for:
Site:catering grill
Site:catering grill catering

Even more potential buyers This will list all dot catering sites including the word Grill.

This also helps when you have to find buyers for ngTLD domain like I have Move.global and searching for "move global" doesn't help me out so I search for site:global move and bingo.. imove.global is developed Time to spam them

I did the same when I was looking for buyers for "fulcrum.io" (before buying the domain name). I searched for site:io fulcrum.

You can also search for "Keyword linkedin" or "Keyword crunchbase" or search or "GrillCatering" in Google news and you'll see more buyers.. I think using Bing.com or other search engines will help find more buyers but lets contact these first.

- NameDroppers.com

ZFBot.com and NameDroppers.com are both very useful tools. Both have their advantages, ZFBot has more to offer but few weeks ago ZFBot.com started charging $5 per month or $50 per year. One disadvantage of NameDroppers is that it doesn't support ccTLD's and ngTLD's except .us. ZFBot supports many ccTLD's and ngTLD's.

Visit NameDroppers.com

Search for "grill catering" (without quotes) in the search box.

NameDroppers "matched 213 domain names". But only shows 50 at a time. There is a button below the search box, "More Options". Click on it and use the search parameters to see different combinations of results to check all the registered domain names containing the keywords "grill catering".

I can play with the "exact order", "Starts with", "Ends with" and "length" options, like first searching for domains with length 1-10 then 11-15 then 16-20 and so on. Sometimes there are thousands of matched domains and the more the number of domains, the more times you'll have to change the length etc to see all the domains.

You'll often find domains that are unrelated to the keywords like When a keyword is "Yes" you'll see "eYes" in the results..They obviously cannot be considered a potential buyer whether the site is developed or not.

For great domains, you don't need to do research to make sure whether it's a great domain or not. But when it comes to the price you should pay, the list and quality of potential buyers comes into play. Sometimes there's an awesome domain at auction and you're willing to pay a high price for it but when you search for the buyers and find only a few and those look like they won't pay much your budget for that domain will decrease. And at other times you see a domain which look like 2 random words put together and you won't pay $20 for that but then you search for potential buyers for it and realize that this is a hidden gem which can be sold for $xxxx!

I am sure you all will benefit from my post and will make a lot of money, I spent hours typing all this stuff so I want 10% of your profit in my PayPal, Thank you

Note: Some credit goes to Jacob @wormfood .. the man who has the potential to become the 2nd best domainer of the end-times.

Brought to you by, The one and only, The Best Domainer Of The End-Times.

Haris.

You have make sure you have a space between the ":" and keyword for it to work correctly.

 

[Haris]

You have make sure you have a space between the ":" and keyword for it to work correctly.

There should be no space between ':' and the keyword!!

 

[philip]

tried the query but incorrect, can you put me through on that

 

[Domains - Wanted]

...I tend to use Zfbot a lot when it comes to making the decision on buying a domain and so far it has been pretty effective.

Could you elaborate a little more on this? How does Zfbot help in making your decision?

 

[Domains - Wanted]

I don't want to find end users.
I want end users to find me.
For this to happen all you need is attractive inventory.
Everything else is details.

This is very sound strategy, provided:
(a) you have the cashflow to sustain it,
(b) you are satisfied with the smaller profit ratio,
(c) you have the knowhow to successfully and consistently pick and choose the "attractive inventory", as you put it.

This last is the key to your strategy. This is not something that beginners or even many long time domainers can do consistently, myself included. Hence my tendency towards outbound. In line with the spirit of this thread, care to elaborate and share a few pointers here on how you identify and choose attractive inventory, Kate?

 

[Haris]

tried the query but incorrect, can you put me through on that

PM me the problem, I will guide you.

 

[gervigov]

Thanks for sharing! Very useful tips on searching for end users and domain variations.

 

[domainraider]

I also use domainero.com (not my site) to track down similar domains.

Worth a look imo..

 

[tjl92]

Hi guys,

Some members here might be aware of these strategies for finding potential end-user buyers but I am sure there are many who would find this blog post beneficial.

Firstly, you need to understand that you must find the potential buyers before buying the domain. Sometimes it feels like a waste of time when the domain at auction you want to buy gets bids over your budget or even if you win it, it gets renewed after you spend a lot of time finding potential buyers but this is a part of domaining and there is no alternative to it.

The pricing strategy, the sales strategy, everything is secondary, the most important strategy is the buying strategy, if you'll buy better domains with potential buyers you can contact, you won't have to worry about not getting inquiries for your domain because if you have a domain with potential buyers, you can sell it through outbound marketing. Finding potential buyers should be considered a part of the buying strategy. As @Kate often says to those looking for buyers after buying the domains, "Don't put the cart before the horse". We should do things in their proper order, find buyers for the domain before buying the domain.

There are many tools you can use to find potential buyers but the two I am going to write about are NameDroppers.com and Google.com, not the usual Google search but the ultimate utilization of Google.

- Google.com

Everybody uses Google to search for potential buyers but what most domainers do is searching for the keywords and checking the first 5-10 pages which does help but you can do much more at Google than you can imagine.

I am using GrillCatering.com as an example. By searching for "GrillCatering" (with or without quotes/space) I found many buyers but there is only one using the exact match URL i.e GrillCatering.dk

Part 1:
Search for:
site:GrillCatering.*

* = TLD, ccTLD or ngTLD, websites with exact keyword "GrillCatering" using any extension will be listed.

As you can see, here we have GrillCatering dot at/dk/ch/nl/de on the first page. All developed sites. This trick helps find potential buyers that can't be found by simply searching the keywords.

Now we will check for even more buyers, as there are multiple results for .dk, we need to remove the potential buyers we already found and check if there are even more hidden somewhere between the many results on the next page so we will search for: site:GrillCatering.* -.dk.

I added -.dk to subtract the .dk results which will bring grillcatering.com.ar to the first page. Often a potential buyer is hidden in the other pages and subtracting the one with many results is the only way to find them.

Part 2:
Now search for:
site:Grill-Catering.*

Even more potential buyers

Part 3:
Site:catering

Yes there is a .catering ngTLD. lol

Search for:
Site:catering grill
Site:catering grill catering

Even more potential buyers This will list all dot catering sites including the word Grill.

This also helps when you have to find buyers for ngTLD domain like I have Move.global and searching for "move global" doesn't help me out so I search for site:global move and bingo.. imove.global is developed Time to spam them

I did the same when I was looking for buyers for "fulcrum.io" (before buying the domain name). I searched for site:io fulcrum.

You can also search for "Keyword linkedin" or "Keyword crunchbase" or search or "GrillCatering" in Google news and you'll see more buyers.. I think using Bing.com or other search engines will help find more buyers but lets contact these first.

- NameDroppers.com

ZFBot.com and NameDroppers.com are both very useful tools. Both have their advantages, ZFBot has more to offer but few weeks ago ZFBot.com started charging $5 per month or $50 per year. One disadvantage of NameDroppers is that it doesn't support ccTLD's and ngTLD's except .us. ZFBot supports many ccTLD's and ngTLD's.

Visit NameDroppers.com

Search for "grill catering" (without quotes) in the search box.

NameDroppers "matched 213 domain names". But only shows 50 at a time. There is a button below the search box, "More Options". Click on it and use the search parameters to see different combinations of results to check all the registered domain names containing the keywords "grill catering".

I can play with the "exact order", "Starts with", "Ends with" and "length" options, like first searching for domains with length 1-10 then 11-15 then 16-20 and so on. Sometimes there are thousands of matched domains and the more the number of domains, the more times you'll have to change the length etc to see all the domains.

You'll often find domains that are unrelated to the keywords like When a keyword is "Yes" you'll see "eYes" in the results..They obviously cannot be considered a potential buyer whether the site is developed or not.

For great domains, you don't need to do research to make sure whether it's a great domain or not. But when it comes to the price you should pay, the list and quality of potential buyers comes into play. Sometimes there's an awesome domain at auction and you're willing to pay a high price for it but when you search for the buyers and find only a few and those look like they won't pay much your budget for that domain will decrease. And at other times you see a domain which look like 2 random words put together and you won't pay $20 for that but then you search for potential buyers for it and realize that this is a hidden gem which can be sold for $xxxx!

I am sure you all will benefit from my post and will make a lot of money, I spent hours typing all this stuff so I want 10% of your profit in my PayPal, Thank you

Note: Some credit goes to Jacob @wormfood .. the man who has the potential to become the 2nd best domainer of the end-times.

Brought to you by, The one and only, The Best Domainer Of The End-Times.

Haris.

Thanks @Haris ! Great article and strategies! Glad I'm learning this now and not later.

 

[tjl92]

I also use domainero.com (not my site) to track down similar domains.

Worth a look imo..

I for one actually did look into them @domainraider . They weren't as...fantastic as I expected personally. But i guess what works for one may not work for another I suppose. Lots of tools out here to use I'm finding out.

 

[singhhooda]

namedroppers is cool but the advantage to google is that at a glance you may determine if the result is a website or simply a for sale domain, and something about what it is about, which anyway a for sale with no content or dead site should not to show up on a google search at all.

With namedroppers you find yourself sitting there clicking one link after another, with most of them going to a for sale domain, or to nothing, which is why I haven't really used namedroppers in the past. Anyone here who is using namedroppers successfully; would appreciate input, on how.

I talked with @Macit (founder of dofo.com) that we need the feature which would show whether the website is at parked page or not and he said that it's already into the process and they shall release that feature soon.

 

[Ayananta Chakraborty]

How to send mails to domain owner? if their privacy is on

 

[Nikhil Jain]

Check out the website, contact us section or LinkedIn etc...... Things would start to unfold once you keep reading and learning more and more.

How to send mails to domain owner? if their privacy is on