domain Newbie seeking assistance! - FQND.NET

[leewiggins63]

Hey all, Discovered this about 2 weeks ago. Have no clue what I'm doing. I have registered about 150 domains in 2 weeks. Here I think are my best. Could someone please look at them and give me a ballpark idea what you would list them for without an appraisal, yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MASTEROFFUNK.COM
FQND.NET
THEPINKTACO.NET
HEDGEBET.NET
OUTDISTANCE.NET

I believe FQND.NET is receiving traffic from FQDN.COM for Fully Qualified Domain Names.... Someone please look at it, because I'm lying if I told I knew anything about it.

Thanks Again

 

[Kate]

Hey all, Discovered this about 2 weeks ago.

OK

Have no clue what I'm doing.

Then read, read, read and learn. Don't pull the credit card out of the wallet until you have a good understanding of how things work.

I have registered about 150 domains in 2 weeks. Here I think are my best.

Ouch.

Why did you have to buy so many domains within such a short time frame ?
Which criteria did you follow to register the domains ?

I believe FQND.NET is receiving traffic from FQDN.COM for Fully Qualified Domain Names.... Someone please look at it, because I'm lying if I told I knew anything about it.

You can park the names, and see if there's any traffic.Maybe you'll make a few $ but that's it.

It may not be what you want to hear, but these domains aren't good at all, that's why they were still available.
You're saying these are your best domains, I wonder what the worst look like.

All I see is that you've most likely wasted $1200+ in two weeks, and I don't know how you can at least recoup that money. My guess is that you won't, because these names aren't going to get sold.

I don't think you've done research, or that you know what kinds of names do sell.
Hint: in 2013 it will be tough to find a domain that is still available and that has a good resale potential. Not saying it can't be done, it can might if you're experienced enough but statistically the odds are against you.

All I can say is, do not register any more domains from now on. Just read and learn, it's free education.

 

[leewiggins63]

Thanks for being so brutally honest! No, there has been no ryhme or reason for my purchases. Ive had three appraised by Icaan. The three, I didn't list, but ICAAN valued them at 1,900, 3,250 and 3,700, so I thought I was in tall cotton,but I guess they're crap too. My thought was, if I sell them for 60 bucks or so I would at least be making money. Anyway, thanks alot for your post. I will heed the advice and any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm retired and bored, just something that I used to occupy my time.

 

[Kate]

Where exactly did you get the appraisals ?

It's another trap. Possibly a scam.

First of all, automated appraisals are absolutely pointless and meaningless.
Now, as for the human appraisals: those who sell them will tell you what you want to hear, if they told you your domains have zero potential would you buy more appraisals from them ?

An appraisal is always a best-case scenario, it doesn't mean there is a buyer. If there is no buyer, the domain has no resale value.

Domain names don't sell because they have good appraisals, they sell because somebody wants them, and will pay.

To put it bluntly, 99% of all domain names in existence will never sell.
Accordingly, it would be wise to never buy domains that you wouldn't keep and develop. Domain sales are the exception, not the norm...
Think about it, everybody wants to sell here. There are millions of domains for sale, but not enough buyers to absorb the supply. Most domains will never sell, because nobody will ever want them.
Good luck.

 

[leewiggins63]

Newbie seeking assistance

Appraisals were from info at caan.info. A guy contacted me via a whois and said he wanted to purchase the three. They were: eprayerlist. com, thedronezone. net and erecipecentral. com. He said he wanted credible valuations. The guy is still in contact and says he has them sold. Wants to put a deposit in my escrow account.. I just registered them and can't transfer. I guess we'll see. Do you believe that is s scam in itself? Thanks for any further advice. Can't post links yet, it said. Too new.

 

[Ted.T]

Appraisals were from info at caan.info. A guy contacted me via a whois and said he wanted to purchase the three. They were: eprayerlist. com, thedronezone. net and erecipecentral. com. He said he wanted credible valuations. The guy is still in contact and says he has them sold. Wants to put a deposit in my escrow account.. I just registered them and can't transfer. I guess we'll see. Do you believe that is s scam in itself? Thanks for any further advice. Can't post links yet, it said. Too new.

It's a scam. Don't trust him, if you paid by paypal, open a case and get your money back.

 

[leewiggins63]

Newbie seeking assistance

I haven't lost anything yet. I registered the domains and nothing has changed hands. So, you think he's not sincere? I don't know at this point. Seems like a descent guy trying to make a buck. I hope you not right.

 

[Ted.T]

I haven't lost anything yet. I registered the domains and nothing has changed hands. So, you think he's not sincere? I don't know at this point. Seems like a descent guy trying to make a buck. I hope you not right.

It's a well-known scam. Ask him to make an appraisal himself if he is really interested in the domains. Also, that domain, caan.info redirects to ibuddy.com.

PS: I've lost money with this scam at the beginning of my domainer life

 

[leewiggins63]

Newbie seeking assistance

Thank you for your insight. How does the scam work? Again, I will heed the advice of your experiences.

 

[Ted.T]

This scam is very simple. Somebody contacts you and tells that he is interested in your domains. Asks the price. Then, after you tell him the price, he tells you that the price is good, but he needs an appraisal certificate, and if the appraisal price is higher, then he will pay more. Also, he "helps" you by sending the link of a service he trust, usually a link to some crappy appraisal service, and a link to a so-called "forum thread" where he agrees to buy some domains from members for high XXXX prices.
After you pay, get the certificate with a wonderful price(smth around 5k-10k) and send it to that so-called buyer, he disappears... That's all.

 

[Kate]

You've been scammed.

It's the well-known appraisal scam.
The crook has no intention of buying anything from you, he just wants to sell you an appraisal. The bogus buyer are the 'appraiser' are the same one party.

The domain caan.info is held by a reputable domainer.
Are you sure you've actually been dealing with Barry ? Because the scammers have a habit of using misleading domain names. At some point they were using TheNamePros.com.

Anyway, you should do a charge back right now.

 

[clicktechs]

yes thats an old, but still going scam....my buyer wants an appraisal, often they even have the same IP, if not even worse.

Read, and dont reg more until you read more.

 

[leewiggins63]

Newbie seeking assistance

Roger that, thanks for the advice. All purchases suspended until I I do some more research. I guess this one is totally worthless too.
Mobrules net. Thanks for all the info.

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Well, the IPs aren't the same, I guess re-directed to swreg org for the appraisals requested from icaan.

 

[Kate]

swreg is the payment processor, you can complain to them but they'll probably do nothing.
Because you paid for a service that was delivered, you have to demonstrate it's all a scam.
Just do a charge back.

 

[leewiggins63]

Yea, his domain is new. Lesson learned. Too bad I didn't come here prior.

 

[barefoottech]

Hey all, Discovered this about 2 weeks ago.

Have no clue what I'm doing.

I have registered about 150 domains in 2 weeks. Here I think are my best. Could someone please look at them and give me a ballpark idea what you would list them for without an appraisal, yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MASTEROFFUNK.COM
FQND.NET
THEPINKTACO.NET
HEDGEBET.NET
OUTDISTANCE.NET

Thanks Again

If they are your BEST, why did you register so many that are worse than those?

QUALITY, not QUANTITY, is what you need to embrace.
Sorry to tell you this, but you will be lucky to get any more than 10$ for any of them. As they are only a couple days old MAYBE able to use the "grace delete rule" to cancel the registrations of some, but there is a time/number limit on how many can be refunded.

Run to phone and ring Godaddy direct to see what can be done.
Do not ever believe Appraisal / I want to buy your domain emails without Checking them out.

15 Names would be too many for a newbie, 150 is madness

 

[leewiggins63]

I have been schooled during the course of the day. I assumed people would buy them to build a site on. For instance, I registered eprayerlist c thinking that maybe a religious organization might be looking for something like that. I'm still not very knowledgeable in the matter, but understand the mechanics of it now. I think probably only a few have any potential of making any pennies a year. mobrules n and thecaged n would be my best picks, and I'm sure I'm probably wrong about that. I only paid 6 to 8 bucks for what I have, so if they could be sold for 10 that would be ok or not. Not going to cry in my beer, I screwed up, but has been a lot of entertainment during the last two weeks. Thanks for all the advice.

 

[barefoottech]

I only paid 6 to 8 bucks for what I have, so if they could be sold for 10 that would be ok or not. Thanks for all the advice.

The point is that you may not be able to even give some of these names away. Everyone here has got names that are not even worth a $1. Domains have no real intrinsic value. It is common for poor names to not be worth anything and unable to be sold.

 

[leewiggins63]

Yea, understand now. What's done is done.