information The Truth About Unsold Premium Domains: How Glitchy Landing Pages Help Registrars Buy Your Assets for Cheap

[BrandingGo]

Hi,

Are your leads being "Ghosted"? My recent experience with unresponsive offer pages.

I tried to buy a domain (webs-designs.com) on Saw.com, but when I clicked the "Make an Offer" button, the page threw an error. I tried several times, but it wouldn't load. In the end, I registered a much better domain for just a reg fee.

This is why many premium domains go unsold - sometimes it’s physically impossible to buy them due to technical bugs. A day later, I tried making an offer again just out of curiosity, and voilà, the page opened. But by then, I had already moved on.

The moral of the story: if you want to sell a domain, you must own or control the landing page it redirects to. I’ve seen this happen often with Epik; their landers wouldn't open for new visitors. They were essentially just collecting leads while your domains sat unsold. Eventually, the registrar would scoop them up for cheap as expired domains because they knew the names were liquid and had historical buyer interest.

That’s the result of my little investigation.

 

[sellian]

You consider webs-designs.com to be a premium domain?

 

[bmugford]

I tried to buy a domain (webs-designs.com) on Saw.com, but when I clicked the "Make an Offer" button, the page threw an error. I tried several times, but it wouldn't load. In the end, I registered a much better domain for just a reg fee.

Webs-Designs is an awful domain, so that worked out in your favor.

Brad

 

[URL Stream]

I’ve seen this happen often with Epik; their landers wouldn't open for new visitors. They were essentially just collecting leads while your domains sat unsold. Eventually, the registrar would scoop them up for cheap as expired domains because they knew the names were liquid and had historical buyer interest.

That’s the result of my little investigation.

Can you tell us more about your investigation into Epik.

 

[CashproofAi]

Hi,

Are your leads being "Ghosted"? My recent experience with unresponsive offer pages.

I tried to buy a domain (webs-designs.com) on Saw.com, but when I clicked the "Make an Offer" button, the page threw an error. I tried several times, but it wouldn't load. In the end, I registered a much better domain for just a reg fee.

This is why many premium domains go unsold - sometimes it’s physically impossible to buy them due to technical bugs. A day later, I tried making an offer again just out of curiosity, and voilà, the page opened. But by then, I had already moved on.

The moral of the story: if you want to sell a domain, you must own or control the landing page it redirects to. I’ve seen this happen often with Epik; their landers wouldn't open for new visitors. They were essentially just collecting leads while your domains sat unsold. Eventually, the registrar would scoop them up for cheap as expired domains because they knew the names were liquid and had historical buyer interest.

That’s the result of my little investigation.

Thanks for narrating your real experience while registering on saw.com. So far as my experience is concerned, never faced such issues in Hostinger, Spaceship, and GD.

 

[URL Stream]

Thanks for narrating your real experience while registering on saw.com. So far as my experience is concerned, never faced such issues in Hostinger, Spaceship, and GD.

Not registering, buying.

 

[URL Stream]

Webs-Designs is an awful domain, so that worked out in your favor.

Brad

https://saw.com/appraisals?domain=WEBS-DESIGNS.COM

 

[URL Stream]

You consider webs-designs.com to be a premium domain?

Same issue as sellsman.

 

[Joe123]

Alternate thread title: How Saw.com did me a favour

 

[BrandingGo]

Webs-Designs is an awful domain, so that worked out in your favor.

Brad

I know, I just need it for personal SEO testing. I've got another one that works for me. 'Web design' is a hot keyword.

Webs actually means a WEBSite or WEBSites (slang) and Google accept it.

 

[BrandingGo]

Same issue as sellsman.

Sellsman get a traffic. There are many requests on Google where people are searching for 'sellsman' instead of 'salesman'. It’s a very common mistake because of how the words sound, which explains why I get so much search traffic for the typo (in Google search console)! But this thread not about Sellsman.
BTW Sellsman.com works as a brand because you remembered it, haha .

 

[Altetra]

I think you are on to something, recently I have begin to have more inquires on Spaceship than on Afternic, also looking at views on Afternic most of domains show 0 views, although NS are pointing proper.
Even got an idea to open in bulk each domain and see if it resolves, you never know what Godaddy is up to.
Time to take our own websites/landers more seriously.

 

[BrandingGo]

The moral of the story: it’s better to use a trusted provider for your landers, such as NamePros, or a custom landing page, as an exmple:

 

[abdullah-ee]

Hi,

Are your leads being "Ghosted"? My recent experience with unresponsive offer pages.

I tried to buy a domain (webs-designs.com) on Saw.com, but when I clicked the "Make an Offer" button, the page threw an error. I tried several times, but it wouldn't load. In the end, I registered a much better domain for just a reg fee.

This is why many premium domains go unsold - sometimes it’s physically impossible to buy them due to technical bugs. A day later, I tried making an offer again just out of curiosity, and voilà, the page opened. But by then, I had already moved on.

The moral of the story: if you want to sell a domain, you must own or control the landing page it redirects to. I’ve seen this happen often with Epik; their landers wouldn't open for new visitors. They were essentially just collecting leads while your domains sat unsold. Eventually, the registrar would scoop them up for cheap as expired domains because they knew the names were liquid and had historical buyer interest.

That’s the result of my little investigation.

small technical issues kill conversions instantly. If a buyer hits an error, they won’t retry—they just move on.


That’s why relying fully on third-party landers is risky. If the page breaks, you lose real buyers without even knowing.

 

[Joe123]

With domain values being so subjective, both AI and automated valuation tools can't be relied upon. While names like sellsman.com and webs-designs.com may sound appealing, to a native English speaker they are awkward and unlikely to be attractive for an end user.

 

[WhySleepAlone]

Sellsman get a traffic. There are many requests on Google where people are searching for 'sellsman' instead of 'salesman'. It’s a very common mistake because of how the words sound, which explains why I get so much search traffic for the typo (in Google search console)! But this thread not about Sellsman.
BTW Sellsman.com works as a brand because you remembered it, haha .

Very memorable indeed - just ran a search for your premium name and found this.

 

[BrandingGo]

With domain values being so subjective, both AI and automated valuation tools can't be relied upon. While names like sellsman.com and webs-designs.com may sound appealing, to a native English speaker they are awkward and unlikely to be attractive for an end user.

this thread is not about SellsMan.com

Even so, the domain stuck and everyone remembered it - and memorability is the most important thing in naming. So, based on the attention you're giving it, the domain is valuable, and the person who kept renewing it before me knew that too.

 

[Joe123]

Very memorable indeed - just ran a search for your premium name and found this.

this thread is not about SellsMan.com

Even so, the domain stuck and everyone remembered it - and memorability is the most important thing in naming. So, based on the attention you're giving it, the domain is valuable, and the person who kept renewing it before me knew that too.

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Yes, sellsman.com is memorable enough to have multiple mentions in https://defequer.com/ (not my website).

 

[AnX]

Hi,

Are your leads being "Ghosted"? My recent experience with unresponsive offer pages.

I tried to buy a domain (webs-designs.com) on Saw.com, but when I clicked the "Make an Offer" button, the page threw an error. I tried several times, but it wouldn't load. In the end, I registered a much better domain for just a reg fee.

This is why many premium domains go unsold - sometimes it’s physically impossible to buy them due to technical bugs. A day later, I tried making an offer again just out of curiosity, and voilà, the page opened. But by then, I had already moved on.

The moral of the story: if you want to sell a domain, you must own or control the landing page it redirects to. I’ve seen this happen often with Epik; their landers wouldn't open for new visitors. They were essentially just collecting leads while your domains sat unsold. Eventually, the registrar would scoop them up for cheap as expired domains because they knew the names were liquid and had historical buyer interest.

That’s the result of my little investigation.

I'm sorry, but I find this story difficult to believe. There is no way you found a better domain than webs-designs.com.

Edit: Even more unbelievable, webs-designs.com has for some reason been registered since 2004.