Please Explain Why I Receive Offers for Domains in Redemption Period?

I received another email today offering to sell me a domain that is currently in redemption period about a week from dropping. If I replied "Yes," how are they going to sell me something they haven't even won yet? Maybe they would try to stall me for a week pretending they are preparing it for transfer? And if they don't win the auction, they "change their minds"?

This woman's name didn't match the man's name on the whois info and she sent me the following email today from a gmail address:

"We noticed that you own xxxxx.com? Do you have any interest in xxxxxx.com? If so please let us know and we will get back to you with the full details.
I wish you a great day!"

Thanks for helping me understand

 

The WHOIS typically still shows you.

Two things:

1. People are tired of getting their butts kicked in the drop auctions. So they are frontrunning the drop by contacting people who hold names in redemption.

2. Most non-crap registrars are still waiving redemption fees for .COM. Verisign waived redemption fees through year-end so good chance the domain is recoverable for non nose-bleed.

DM if you need help.

 

Much appreciated Rob and good to see you again. We spoke via phone 3 weeks ago. I still think you should be "Monsta Host" and I have this domain & website to sell you for only $300 total for both, take a look: http://MonstaHost.com/

Rob, a few weeks ago I front ended a drop auction by getting in touch with the owner 2 days before it dropped. I offered the owner 4k and they are demanding over 10K. I wish I let that one drop so will think twice before I front-end an auction again.

 

Yes, good to hear from you. We have a lot of brands as you might recall:

https://www.epik.com/about/labs/

I doubt I will ever brand anything in my own name. For clarity on why, see Romans 12:1.

As for redemption names, engaging people with redemption names has a relatively low success rate but sometimes you will find some gems. CSC routinely drops domains that they should never drop, for example. They are not alone. Many smaller registrars have no auction of the expiry stream, and have nobody monitoring it either. A small player can't compete with a dropcatcher but they can definitely go around them by contacting the registrant!

 

well it's better than to get sale offers on names some scammer domainers didnt even bother to reg. I got tons of those offers

 

• One of the registrars should have leaked the information in order to find you
  

• Or maybe you've seen this domain name
  
  
• I haven't received such an email so far
  

 

I don't have any inside scoop or connections like that. This woman who writes me calls herself "Olivia Adams" and her gmail address is very sketchy with a long string of random numbers. It's an email a scammer would use, not a real person.

I suspect it could be a straight scam and not someone connected to a Registrar.

 

Then you need to be extremely careful