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

 

[gcttirth]

Hello all!

I have read from page 81 to 91, and I thank you all from the deep heart for the tips and informations. I will surely read this whole thread from time-to-time.

I have a question though. I own a domain name in .com, the company with exact name is settled in .co.uk. I have e-mailed them through the contact details provided on their site about selling the companyname.com for just $150. That was 1 week ago, and I haven't received a reply.

What should I Do? Should I e-mail them again (if so, when)? Should I inform the registration email provided in whois? What are the chances of a company settled in a lower DN will get the .com domain name.

BTW, the domain name was dropped and I picked it up.

Thanks in advance,
gct

 

[ibidu]

@gcttirth

In most cases like this one, the company is a UK specific company and your .com version of the same domain won't be any use to them. However, if they're a very large company, in order to protect their brand they may be tempted to get hold of the .com tld as well, but I won't bank on it too strongly.

I've had similar situations with a .au company where I had the .com and I took the decision of letting my domain expire and it was a good decision too, since they never bothered to register my .com domain even after it was available again!

 

[gcttirth]

Indeed, the company provides some garbage package (TBH, those things don't exist in my area and I have never heard of it ). So yes, the company is limited to UK clients only.

Though I can't understand why would a company not use the .com version if they get it for small price.

Really appreciate your opinion. Any Idea about the question "should I email them again?"

Thanks again,
gct

@gcttirth

In most cases like this one, the company is a UK specific company and your .com version of the same domain won't be any use to them. However, if they're a very large company, in order to protect their brand they may be tempted to get hold of the .com tld as well, but I won't bank on it too strongly.

I've had similar situations with a .au company where I had the .com and I took the decision of letting my domain expire and it was a good decision too, since they never bothered to register my .com domain even after it was available again!

 

[ibidu]

Really appreciate your opinion. Any Idea about the question "should I email them again?"

Thanks again,
gct

Sorry, didn't realise at first you live in india.

Obviously you can email them again but your domain is no good to them as they're uk based and a to have a .com for them is a disadvantage businesswise.

 

[infmoney]

Sorry, didn't realise at first you live in india.

Obviously you can email them again but your domain is no good to them as they're uk based and a to have a .com for them is a disadvantage businesswise.

I just sold a .com to a small uk web design company for low xxx and have had other uk design companies interested in buying my other design .com domains.

 

[wonderfulsites]

I wouldnt say a .com is bad for u.k business.

.com is always king.

Naturally register the .co.uk of whatever .com extension you choose.

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[ibidu]

For a small local company which has no expansion plans beyond home boudaries a .co.uk is always preferred to a .com as I've found lots of .au co's would always prefer their own country's extention to a .com as well - I've approached loads of them and none of them showed any interest in the .com extention I was offering them. So speaking from first hand experience.

In addition to that, they rank a lot better in SERPs. I bet loads of people who are trying to push their domain names have never thought of this important point.

 

[gcttirth]

Indeed, I completely understood the point.

@infmoney -- You mentioned that they are buying design .coms. In my opinion, designing is done online and surely a .com could boost their business. But the issue in my case is that the company operates locally ( garbage package ). in that case, ibidu's comment seems to stand accurate and precise.

So yes, .com isn't bad for .uk/other ccTLD domains, but they have to be global and not local. For local business, ccTLD would surely be the choice.

Lesson learned, thanks!

 

[infmoney]

Indeed, I completely understood the point.

@infmoney -- You mentioned that they are buying design .coms. In my opinion, designing is done online and surely a .com could boost their business. But the issue in my case is that the company operates locally ( garbage package ). in that case, ibidu's comment seems to stand accurate and precise.

So yes, .com isn't bad for .uk/other ccTLD domains, but they have to be global and not local. For local business, ccTLD would surely be the choice.

Lesson learned, thanks!

It was a geo domain ex. webdesignlondon.com that does design locally. I've had others from the Dudley area(Uk)interested in my domain WebDesignDudley dot com.

 

[ibidu]

It was a geo domain ex. webdesignlondon.com that does design locally. I've had others from the Dudley area(Uk)interested in my domain WebDesignDudley dot com.

Firstly, to say a UK company would be interested in a .com company, of course they should be, but that depends on the nature of their business.

As "gcttirth" pointed out it all depends on the nature of their business. Can a local refuse collection company be compared with an online design company? Of course not - and for the logic of why a London design company should be after a .com as opposed to a .co.uk or would like to have both, it's pretty obvious why.... because they could get clients from all over the world to ask them to design sites related or about London or any other places in UK. It's as simple as that.

And to say that .com is always king is only said by newbies who have no business background.

Tell that to Archive.org and they will laugh at you. Tell that to an Education authority and they will tell you thanks but no thanks. So learning anything parrot fashionly could be a little risky in any business.

 

[wonderfulsites]

Yes agreed it does depend on the business. A small business is bound to go for .co.uk

There are several large uk companies however who have invested in .coms

Such as

moneysupermarket.com
Confused.com
Comparethemarket.com

And the services offered by these conpanes are predominantly aimed at the u.k market only.


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[xtmoney]

just question ?
if i have domain.com and domain.net is developed no other extension is taken. is it worth to catch .com and try to sell it to owner of domain.net

 

[wonderfulsites]

Depends who owns the .net.
If its a poor developer or domainer then they will not buy the .com due to lack of funds.

If a multi million dollar company owns the .net then go for it but beware of domains using their trademarks as they could sue you instead.

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[john_karr]

What about emailing one of the affiliate program that I use for CJ? Should I email the program manager?

 

[syedazhar]

this is what I do. Im doing some research on google for bloggers who are still using blogspot or wordpress extension. So I register the domain same as theirs with GoDaddy. And hope one day they will contact me. do you think this way looks better? sorry for my english

 

[wonderfulsites]

If they are using blogspot then normally they will be poor. Perhaps students. If they haf cash they would probably buy a domain name. But then again they could just be non techy and not know how to build their own site. If this is the case you could sell the domain and install worpress for them and even sell them webhosting.. That could work for non technical bloggers.



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[SK1990]

this is what I do. Im doing some research on google for bloggers who are still using blogspot or wordpress extension. So I register the domain same as theirs with GoDaddy. And hope one day they will contact me. do you think this way looks better? sorry for my english

That doesn't sound like a very smart or successful business plan to me.:imho:

 

[syedazhar]

That doesn't sound like a very smart or successful business plan to me.:imho:

haha..ok, i will change my plan. Could you share with me, some of your strategies? sorry i am new in this field

 

[Greg]

haha..ok, i will change my plan. Could you share with me, some of your strategies? sorry i am new in this field

The 95 previous pages of this thread spell it all out!

 

[infmoney]

haha..ok, i will change my plan. Could you share with me, some of your strategies? sorry i am new in this field

Hey syedazhar,

Read every single post in this thread and if you don't at least learn one thing you didn't know before, something is wrong with you

I've read it probably 2 or 3 times back to front and even sometimes just go to random pages and read the posts.

This should be a book on how to find and sell to endusers it's so good. The first day I joined this forum is when I bought my first domain and I've been selling much more now adays after reading and applying the tactics shown in this thread. Good luck .