Suspicious offer for unremarkable domain?

[bigbluesky2006]

Several days ago I registered a fairly unremarkable 9 letter domain.

Today i've been contacted by e-mail by someone in Europe asking if I will sell the domain.

I told them it was still under the 60 day registrar lock and asked them to make an offer if they were still interested. They have offered a large sum of money and I am very suspicious.

Can anyone tell me what I should do next?

If it is a genuine offer I will be very pleased to accept it. However it seems very strange that I am being offered a large sum only days after I registered the name.

 

[gazzip]

It might be an appraisal scam - it seems like someone targets users who generally have a low amount of posts.

Take a look at this recent thread and see if it sounds familiar, there are loads more threads about it here. If in doubt post the email you received and someone will let you know if it is a known scammer.

http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/303085-i-need-a-professional-appraiser.html


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[angisson]

reply back and ask if they will use Escrow.com if they do agree than you know its not a scam

 

[domainsusi]

It might be legit - research the domain - it may have been dropped by mistake.

On the other hand, I have a (very good) domain where I have been turning down x,xxx several times. Then all of a sudden I get an offer of $30,000+ through Sedo

I countered with some outrageous figure - I think it was $42,000 - and never heard another word either from Sedo or the buyer who surely could have found my profile in whois.

I would get back to them - accept their offer if you want - but tell them they should initiate the sale using escrow.com. You will find out very quickly if they are serious.

Best of luck

 

[bigbluesky2006]

It might be an appraisal scam - it seems like someone targets users who generally have a low amount of posts.

Take a look at this recent thread and see if it sounds familiar, there are loads more threads about it here. If in doubt post the email you received and someone will let you know if it is a known scammer.

http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/303085-i-need-a-professional-appraiser.html


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It's exactly the same e-mail as shown in that thread. Damn and I was going to get me a new car. Oh well back to reality

 

[gazzip]

It's exactly the same e-mail as shown in that thread. Damn and I was going to get me a new car. Oh well back to reality

well never mind, at least you saved yourself $60 !! If it looks to good to be true it usually is, at least you were cautious enough to ask.

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[bigbluesky2006]

Not sure what it is with appraisals and me lately. I just paid AfterNic $69 for an appraisal that I must have "agreed to" when I submitted an offer for a domain.

I had backorder the domain with Pool and Snapnames but enom caught it. When I went to enom thinking I could bid on some sort of auction for it I was redirected to AfterNic.

When I enquired about the domain I was told the minimum offer was $200 so I offered that. Somewhere along the road I entered my credit card and agreed to a $69 appraisal. I thought I was making an offer at auction but I think the domain was already registered to someone and I was simply using AfterNic as brokers to negociate with the owner.

It's not been a good week.

 

[cache]

strange, not sure exactly what happened to you. So you think you were scammed?

Not sure what it is with appraisals and me lately. I just paid AfterNic $69 for an appraisal that I must have "agreed to" when I submitted an offer for a domain.

I had backorder the domain with Pool and Snapnames but enom caught it. When I went to enom thinking I could bid on some sort of auction for it I was redirected to AfterNic.

When I enquired about the domain I was told the minimum offer was $200 so I offered that. Somewhere along the road I entered my credit card and agreed to a $69 appraisal. I thought I was making an offer at auction but I think the domain was already registered to someone and I was simply using AfterNic as brokers to negociate with the owner.

It's not been a good week.

 

[bigbluesky2006]

I wasn't scammed by AfterNic. I had tried to backorder a domain with Snap and Pool but it ended up being caught by Enom who then referred me to AfterNic when I tried to purchase it.

At the time I was thinking that the domain would go up for auction and I was bidding on an auction. What actually happened was someone had already won the domain and I was simply using AfterNic as a broker to negociate with the owner. In making my offer I agreed to a domain appraisal costing me $69.

The appraisal came back way over what I had offered and so was from my point of view a waste of time and money.

 

[Keynes]

We need to hold a domain conference in Nigeria and invite these folks!

 

[homebuyer]

Registrar lock

I blieve the registrar 60-day lock rule only applies to transferring domains from one registrar to another. You may be able to just push the domain into the account of the buyer if he uses the same registrar as you.

If he doesn't have an account with your registrar, create one for him, do the push using your email address so you can approve everything in minutes, and then email him the account log in and password.

 

[Name Trader]

but enom caught it

Afaik, eNom don't have a backorder business (like SnapNames or Pool) where you bid on a domain and they try to capture it. So one might wonder what eNom are doing in the dropcatching business, and under whose instructions. Food for thought.

 

[GleenTea]

Afaik, eNom don't have a backorder business (like SnapNames or Pool) where you bid on a domain and they try to capture it. So one might wonder what eNom are doing in the dropcatching business, and under whose instructions. Food for thought.

Actually they do, Club Drop.

 

[Name Trader]

How do you backorder a domain at Club Drop which isn't eNom registered?

 

[Toker]

I blieve the registrar 60-day lock rule only applies to transferring domains from one registrar to another. You may be able to just push the domain into the account of the buyer if he uses the same registrar as you.

If he doesn't have an account with your registrar, create one for him, do the push using your email address so you can approve everything in minutes, and then email him the account log in and password.

You're 100% correct..
You can buy a domain in the morning and sell it that afternoon.
All the new buyer has to do is get an account where the domain is
at and you can push it to his account.
It just can't leave the registrar for 60 days after it's reg'd..