information Reporting sales can get more expensive than you think

[Lox]

Is reporting sales @ NPs hurting your relationships with your clients or networking.

In short, Yes!
Luckily, 20 min before submitting a .com, low $ 6 figure sale report, sold to Fortune 500, I get a very long email from my client explaining that I should be able to keep my fingers up and mouth quiet.

After you been brushed up on report sales thread and a day after you or your client find out ... the same name was registered in . net, .org, nGTLD extension, you need to ask yourself; did I made a mistake or did that person that was not so happy with the reporting. The brain figure out - I and my client we are a little bit dummy ... so reg. and corner them. Send a message with the price .com was sold, link to the NPs report sales thread and try to sell the domain name to your client.

(Whatever food you want to feed your brain ... choose something else , more vitamin based. This ain’t going to be a very good / long game and the future of your domaining is questionable. Good luck w that!

Anyway, problem solved. Reporting sales

Regards

 

[scithe]

If someone is actually messaging buyers and linking them to these message boards, that's really dumb of them. It's probably not a vocal member but someone who quietly lurks and does it.

 

[lock]

Just mentioning domains can hinder even when not sold. Eg someone has offer then asks for appraisal it all goes into search engines.

 

[karmaco]

Reported a few sales elsewhere I made last few months. As a rule, I report only a small portion of my sales.

Reason being, even with brandables as soon as you report some bottom feeder regs in some other extensions with bin. These last few times were no exception.

For super generic terms that have multiple end users its more understandable than on the type of domain only one party will likely use.

My new tactic to my occasional reporting is delaying reporting a month or so so if the buyer wants other extensions they can get those before the vultures come out.

Doing these ” I sold a domain but I can’t give any info out” is not a solution either. Thats unverifiable bragging and is also frowned on because it’s useless.

Even if you keep a sale to yourself, the vultures in this niche also like to uncover and declare other peoples sales. I guess because they aren’t selling anything for themselves.

There is no good solution to these issues other than to not report or very selectively report.

 

[Surya Giri Kurniawan]

That's why I only report sales from above 3 years ago.. Make sure it won't make a problem to my clients and me.

In domaining industry, there are some kinds of un-ethic domainers :
- Cyber Squatters
- Brokers who sell others domains without permission
- Trademark infringers
- etc.

They really make problem to other domainers, and they refuse to learn that what they are doing are un-ethical.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

While I agree with most of what you said, the issue is mainly those who go back to spam those buyers with their names simply because Domainer A sold a similar keyword name. That's not cool on any level even if the sale was an impersonal BIN sale.

It's just like in ad sales. Whenever salespeople see and ad for a client they've to book, they all start bombarding that advertiser like they have endless cash to splash in every publication/other form of media.

That's why many marketing directors dislike sales calls.

 

[enterscope]

Real estate purchases are public, stock prices, crypto, funding rounds, etc...

I can understand a company wanting to keep their sale private, they have every right to request NDA. However, I believe public domain sales are free publicity and with any publicity you are going to get spam.

The public sale also serves as a benchmark for the value of the domain, and may be used in the future to help with the valuation of a company and their assets.

 

[poweredbyme]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_(psychology) :

In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area.

.. may be a real reason why, at least in some cases, folks do report sales.

And, we should respect our buyers. Even one-time buyers. If they want their sale to be reported - let them do it themselves. Not all buyers want their purchases to be reported, obviously.

Well said
I am 100% agree

I have never reported any of my sales
It's totally unethical.