strategy How to Find Potential End Users?

[shilmy]

Hi,

Do any of you has regularly sell your domain to end users? If so, do you mind share with me in this thread on how find potential end users for your domain?

Regards,
Sjarief

 

[Nattydomain]

I just made my first domain only sale ...

I bought this great domain chlamydiatesting dot com for $20

I googled chlamydia testing and started on page ten of the results and worked back to page one in sending out a sales letter to all who were legitimate online laboratory/medical sites.

I was offered $909 in US Dollars by a UK firm and gladly accepted the offer. Was just paid and transferred it over today.

I'm definitely going to be spending more time pitching to possible end users. I sent out a lot of emails and it took me several hours, but it was obviously time well spent.

So you sent out your email with no price and the end user came back with a price? Or did he ask you your selling price and you negoitated (sp)...nice sale either way congrats!

 

[DNK.it]

So you sent out your email with no price and the end user came back with a price? Or did he ask you your selling price and you negoitated (sp)...nice sale either way congrats!

that happens to me too some time and make the deal easier :bingo:

congratz for your sale bobbie :sold:

 

[Nattydomain]

Just before I go back to work here is a link on how .tv is rising amongst major companies to promote videos. Maybe if you have some nice .tv domains its time to start pitching those!

http://www.ebusinessdomains.com/dom...-news/usage-of-the-tv-domains-tld-is-booming/

 

[bobbie]

So you sent out your email with no price and the end user came back with a price? Or did he ask you your selling price and you negoitated (sp)...nice sale either way congrats!

I sent out the email with the estibot appraisal and told them I was taking offers. They offered that right off the bat and I accepted their offer without further negotiation.

 

[ripley]

Awesome! Keep those stories coming. Helps make days like this a little easier.

(Just got another email from someone else suggesting to "take your scam elsewhere.") Are people that thick? I'm about to cross industrial domains off my list after today.

ripley.

 

[JoshuaPz]

Wow...I sold you that domain.

...speechless...

I just made my first domain only sale ...

I bought this great domain chlamydiatesting dot com for $20

I googled chlamydia testing and started on page ten of the results and worked back to page one in sending out a sales letter to all who were legitimate online laboratory/medical sites.

I was offered $909 in US Dollars by a UK firm and gladly accepted the offer. Was just paid and transferred it over today.

I'm definitely going to be spending more time pitching to possible end users. I sent out a lot of emails and it took me several hours, but it was obviously time well spent.

 

[Jingles]

I haven't gotten any nasty replies...yet

but I haven't been having too much luck either. I've been sending out emails left and right for various names over the last 2 days, so far I've only had one person respond back asking how much....the name in question is a hyphenated .net, but with an OVT of 21,478...so I quoted a price of $500, but haven't heard a peep from him since...I'll wait a week and if nothing more comes in, I'll send out a quick "price drop" email to him.

My phone call I got last week from a potential end user hasn't resulted in anything so far either. But that I'm kind of ok with because the $500 asking price I quoted is actually quite low compared to past similiar names..I think down the road I just might be happy for NOT making a sale with that one.

Other than that I'm happy to see the majority of my names go for $75-$200...if I could just get MORE responses!

 

[bobbie]

Wow...I sold you that domain.

...speechless...

Yeah .. and I LOVE you for it.

 

[Jingles]

Quick update....just heard back from my hypenated .net reply....he's willing to pay $350 for SpeedDating dot net! :bingo: ...if it's got a hyphen he's not interested :bah:

No sale for me, but I got a good chuckle out of that one

 

[JoshuaPz]

Amy -- I've heard many, many times that Google tends to favor hyphenated domains over their non-hyphenated equivalents when mapping search terms to search results. If someone viewing this topic could back me up with a real example, maybe you could fire that back to your client in hopes of winning him/her over.

Quick update....just heard back from my hypenated .net reply....he's willing to pay $350 for SpeedDating dot net! :bingo: ...if it's got a hyphen he's not interested :bah:

No sale for me, but I got a good chuckle out of that one

 

[nicedomains]

Quick update....just heard back from my hypenated .net reply....he's willing to pay $350 for SpeedDating dot net! :bingo: ...if it's got a hyphen he's not interested :bah:

No sale for me, but I got a good chuckle out of that one

I recently had a similar experience with an L-L-L .com. He though it was the LLL and interested when I told him the asking price was $800. Until he realized it was the L-L-L version (which was the acronym of his company). I got quite a chuckle out of that one, he was still balking at the price of what he thought was an LLL .com for $800, HA!

 

[copper]

Amy -- I've heard many, many times that Google tends to favor hyphenated domains over their non-hyphenated equivalents when mapping search terms to search results. If someone viewing this topic could back me up with a real example, maybe you could fire that back to your client in hopes of winning him/her over.

Yes, it used to be.
But, not any more.
Just do self test.
Go to google and type in...
domainname and
domain-name

 

[bgmv]

Amy -- I've heard many, many times that Google tends to favor hyphenated domains over their non-hyphenated equivalents when mapping search terms to search results. If someone viewing this topic could back me up with a real example, maybe you could fire that back to your client in hopes of winning him/her over.

I think you are right about that Josh. Though I dont have any proof I know that some businesses actually prefer the hyphen, where as others hate it. But I don't mind them.

Just picked up another dropped geo business (LA) so there are alot of potentials for both Louisiana and Los Angeles.

 

[Jingles]

JoshuaP- too late, I already responded back that it is indeed the hyphenated version and that I'm sorry my name wasn't a good fit and thanked him for his time.

When I responded with my price I explained to him how I came to that price after looking at past comparable sales on DNSaleprice.com...Hoping he'd see what typical non-hyphenated date names go for....I didn't think I was TOO high with my price, and I would have come down....Oh well, the search continues

 

[pokainc]

had a sort of strange experience with one of my domains.
UNITEDSOURCING.COM is the one I own.
There's a Chinese company that has a website United-Sourcing.com

I contacted them asking if they were interested in acquiring UnitedSourcing.com without the dash. I sent an email last week and called today.

They said the decision was taken and they did not want it. They are a multi-million dollar company and exclusive suppliers to
BIG LOTS! which is a major chain in the US. They didn't even offer any amount which I found to be very strange.

They said we don't want to change our site, so I made the argument that instinctively, people don't think of putting a dash between United and Sourcing and that they could potentially have clients going to another company's website as a result. Also that they could potentially increase traffic too and that it's better for them to own both versions of the domain.
They didn't seem to care lol

Their website www.United-Sourcing.com or http://www.united-sourcing.com/index_e.htm (english version) --NOT PROMOTING THEM, JUST PUT AS A REFERENCE
Any advice of what could have been said or done?

 

[Jingles]

Endusers can be strange creatures

 

[ripley]

Only other thing I would have said is to point out that they don't have to necessarily redo their site -- they can just point the new site to forward to their current one.

ripley.

 

[Nattydomain]

had a sort of strange experience with one of my domains.
UNITEDSOURCING.COM is the one I own.
There's a Chinese company that has a website United-Sourcing.com

I contacted them asking if they were interested in acquiring UnitedSourcing.com without the dash. I sent an email last week and called today.

They said the decision was taken and they did not want it. They are a multi-million dollar company and exclusive suppliers to
BIG LOTS! which is a major chain in the US. They didn't even offer any amount which I found to be very strange.

They said we don't want to change our site, so I made the argument that instinctively, people don't think of putting a dash between United and Sourcing and that they could potentially have clients going to another company's website as a result. Also that they could potentially increase traffic too and that it's better for them to own both versions of the domain.
They didn't seem to care lol

Their website www.United-Sourcing.com or http://www.united-sourcing.com/index_e.htm (english version) --NOT PROMOTING THEM, JUST PUT AS A REFERENCE
Any advice of what could have been said or done?

Honestly I feel MOST end users feel this way. I think we should be so lucky that these end users are willing to spend more money for a domain name that they may or may not even need. Most of the time what were doing in this since is "helping" their already developed site gain more traffic or use for test purposes or what have you. The BIG MONEY end users will be the ones that want to start a business or develop a site from scratch. Thats where the money I belive will be and in that case the end user will contact you.

I really dont expect that company to really understand the diffrence with a dash. They see it as "hey thats not my name why do i want that?" Or I already have a website I dont need another" When it comes to end users sometimes you have to think of them as children sadly. They feel once they put up a website the traffic will be coming in magicaly and if they change their name (domain only) their changing their business.

 

[InvisionTech]

Thank you Jashua, Mark and others for great tips!

Question:
For businesses which do not have email address listed as contact, would it be good idea to send them snail-mail? If slapping a 42 cent earns you the sale, sounds like a good deal to me. Your thoughts, please.

 

[Gene]

Thank you Jashua, Mark and others for great tips!

Question:
For businesses which do not have email address listed as contact, would it be good idea to send them snail-mail? If slapping a 42 cent earns you the sale, sounds like a good deal to me. Your thoughts, please.

Yes, absolutely. Just make sure you present a professional image. Use nice business stationery/letterhead. It's not just 42 cents though... because you may have to mail 10, 20, 50, even 100 or more to find a buyer. Mention that you will be contacting their competitors as well, but wanted to give them a fair chance first. Make sure you do your research first to get the person's name in charge of such decisions.