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

 

[InvisionTech]

I don't think it would be important to have a website.

Once you list your address, business name and telephone number where potential buyer can reach you, why would they need to see your website? Unless they are looking for other names than the ones you are offering them then that is a different story.

 

[matrigaldo]

Hey guys,
i have a very little (but bothering) doubt.

On weekend I have contacted some companies offering them one of my domain names. My expectation for this domain was about low $xxx, not more (didn't specified it in the email anyway).
But during last 2 days i've received several interested replies from potential end-users asking me the price for this domain. Then i don't know what to answer them.

If there are several interested end-users i may suppose the domain has good value.
I'm afraid i can discourage them if my offer would be like...low $x,xxx (or maybe high $xxx) even if i show my availability to make a negotiation, however at the same i don't want to undervalue my domain, it could be a nice opportunity.

Little doubt. What would you do in the same situation?

 

[ripley]

If there are several interested end-users i may suppose the domain has good value.
I'm afraid i can discourage them if my offer would be like...low $x,xxx (or maybe high $xxx) even if i show my availability to make a negotiation, however at the same i don't want to undervalue my domain, it could be a nice opportunity.

Little doubt. What would you do in the same situation?

If I were you, I would go with your initial price quote that you had expected to make for the domain. I've had many situations where 2-3 people responded asking for a price, and then I still didn't make a sale. Interest in your selling price won't necessarily translate into them agreeing to buy.

ripley.

 

[MarkP]

If I were you, I would go with your initial price quote that you had expected to make for the domain. I've had many situations where 2-3 people responded asking for a price, and then I still didn't make a sale. Interest in your selling price won't necessarily translate into them agreeing to buy.

ripley.

I agree.

Or, send each an email stating that you have had responses from several interested parties and you have decided to put it up for auction. Put it on a 3 day ebay auction and send them each a link.

Mark

 

[matrigaldo]

Thank you very much guys, your help was very useful. Really.
Rep. added.

 

[Terrains]

Is it more efficient to e-mail using the contact e-mail listed on websites, or find the registration e-mail through WHOIS?

 

[ripley]

Is it more efficient to e-mail using the contact e-mail listed on websites, or find the registration e-mail through WHOIS?

I typically use both. I have found there is a high probability that email addresses may have changed but not been updated in both places, and this way I don't have to go back after I get a bounced email and hunt for some other email address. I know from the outset that I've exhausted all my options and just move on. Also generally it's better to send to a person rather than a random info@ address, and sometimes you will find one in the whois but not on the website, and vice-versa.

ripley.

 

[nicedomains]

Is it more efficient to e-mail using the contact e-mail listed on websites, or find the registration e-mail through WHOIS?

I have had more success using the whois contact. However if there different contact info on the webpage I will use both.

 

[Terrains]

Thanks for the fast responses.

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

Always do your best to get to the decision maker. That is usually the CEO or VP of Marketing.

 

[nicedomains]

I finalized a little end user sale today using the email letter below. I forget where I found this letter template, of course I had to make a few changes to it.. We began negotiations last month, just shows patience is important when dealing with companies. They have the domain in their posession.. payment is coming Monday. I am not worried about them scamming me

Hello,

I see your site shows up in search engine results for "xxx xxxxxxx". I thought that you might like to know that I am proactively seeking a buyer for the domain name xxxxxxxxxx.com, as my development plans for the domain are no longer in view.

You may find that by owning xxxxxxxxxx.com and pointing type-in traffic to your existing site that you will capture pre-qualified leads.

xxxxxxxxxx.com is a powerful industry keyword domain name that needs no explanation of spelling or pronunciation. Owning such a name will tell your competitors, current and future customers, partners and/or investors that you are "the player" in this arena.

Since we are proactively seeking a buyer for this domain, we do not expect to own it for very long. Once xxxxxxxxxx.com is sold to an industry player, we don't expect that this great domain name will ever be for sale again. If you have any interest to purchase this quality domain, please contact me to discuss this opportunity.

I am available for any domain related questions regarding traffic forwarding, hosting, development, resale etc before, during and any time after the sale of all domains that I offer for sale.

First come first served. Thanks for your time.



Best Regards,


Michael Law
tel #
email

 

[JoshuaPz]

Always do your best to get to the decision maker. That is usually the CEO or VP of Marketing.

Does this usually entail calling the company and specifically asking to speak with the CEO or VP of marketing? Is there a diplomatic way to go about this when dealing with mid-sized or large companies?

 

[ripley]

Does this usually entail calling the company and specifically asking to speak with the CEO or VP of marketing? Is there a diplomatic way to go about this when dealing with mid-sized or large companies?

I doubt anybody cares whether you're diplomatic or not unless it's a small company. Call the main number, ask for the name of the person in that position, and then ask to be transferred to them. If it's a small company, I'd still do the same thing -- but just be prepared to answer who you are and why you're calling.

ripley.

 

[DNK.it]

I've found this article very interesting:

http://emailgarage.wordpress.com/2007/11/22/email-marketing-forum-2007-the-slides/

ps. I'm not related with the site

 

[Michael]

I forget where I found this letter template

http://searchdomainsforsale.com/sales.htm

Congrats btw :tu:

 

[nicedomains]

http://searchdomainsforsale.com/sales.htm

Congrats btw :tu:

There it is, meant to bookmark that site! Thanks Michael.. :yell:

 

[henniemeijer]

Some more about who is the best domainbroker
for infomercials:
http://www.namecake.com/are-you-serious-about-selling-your-domain-names-find-a-good-broker-then/

but then again this may be his/her /its best experiences as they work best with his/her/its domains, while giving a sidekick to Mr. Latona to add more credibility to his/her/its post.

another backlink.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

Some good information in this thread.

Thanks, guys!

 

[DutchBoyd]

Hi guys... not sure where to post this, but this is a pretty relevant thread. I'm looking for a domain broker to help with a pending premium sale.

The domain is UniversityPokerTour.com. I have two somewhat smaller end-users engaged in a bidding war for this seemingly unattractive domain name. I got lucky because they both emailed on the same day. Otherwise I probably would have let the domain go for a fraction of what I'll be getting for it.

I threw out a highball BIN price of $15k to both of them and offered to push it to sedo for a fraction of it. I informed them both that I was talking to another party. They both have already offered mid $x,xxx for the name, but I decided to take my chances and push it to sedo with a $2k bid. It's a category killer of a niche business model that several companies are already in and could appeal to large companies outside of poker. My hope is that two of the 800 lb gorillas will get in a fight over it and pay off my mortgage in an un-precedented sale (anyone check out all-in.com this week on sedo? craziness.).

I'd like to hire someone who is capable of putting together email lists and contacting potential end-users for the domain. Ideally, you'd be able to extract whois email data from a very large list of similar domain names... I have a list of every .com containing the word "poker" an can easily get lists of all domain names containing a certain keyword. But my tools aren't as good at automatically picking out the whois information. And I have no clue about actually mass-emailing people. Everytime I've done this process myself, it's taken ages and ages sending out ten or so emails at a time.

Additionally, it would be cool if you had a list of domain buyers and marketing people in some of the bigger 500-type companies. I could definitely see some marketing guy in a company like Michelob Ultra or PizzaHut or Apple getting excited about the idea of sponsoring a university poker tour...

I'd be willing to pay either by the hour or give you a percentage fee of the final sale price provided the winner of the auction doesn't end up being one of the two end-users I have already lined up. I've got a long port of 4,000 names that I'm trimming, so any help with this deal will definitely lead to more brokering opportunites.


Cheers,
Dutch Boyd

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

Why not just put it out to auction between the two bidders? If you go for the long list of potential end users you could loose them while you spend time looking for others to join in.

Anyway, I specialize in selling to end users and have a page on my site devoted to it (see signature).

I can also grab whois info in quantity but not the email addresses.

Let me know if I can help.