What will you do with 21 Views Within 1 Hour?

[jideofor]

Hello,

A moment ago, I decided to do an outbound for one my domain name without much end user.

So this company has a product whose name is EMD of my domain name but their company name isn't

In the last 1 hour, there has been 21 views on my email at an interval of 1-2 minutes per view as reported by Streak. Initially, I dismissed it as not being important but on second thought, I wonder what could be triggering those views or could it be a glitch?

 

[MapleDots]

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

 

[MapleDots]

Absolutely brilliant of you thinking of that. It's also easy to do with little work and has another interesting benefit. How many times did you do it? Did it work on more than that one name?

Lets just say it's a trick I use when I don't want to engage the company directly without wanting them to know it's me. They could claim I am sitting on an exact match domain for the sole purpose of selling it. I mean technically I am, but I don't really buy domains with only one end user in mind. If I think one end user is an exemplary match and the email address is better than what they are currently using then I usually initiate this process.

 

[MapleDots]

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

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I have had some members ask me for clarification....

1. You never want to contact the company with an exact match domain for fear of a UDRP.

2. Posing as a client of the company you contact the company through their website contact form and you say you have sent a few emails to [email protected] and have received no response.

When they contact you from the online inquiry asking if they can help you, you simply respond back, no thank you, taken care of somewhere else. Now they figure they lost a sale and they try and get Exact Match Domain. It can even be a fairly close match domain.

Remember to use a generic email address when contacting the company via their online form because you do not want them putting it together.

 

[alcy]

it could be anything .. everything.. or nothing.
until there is an offer in your email box or landing page
fingers crossed

 

[MapleDots]

Very interesting method but I guess it would only work for small size companies. Its almost impossible to attract big and mid size companies with this method cause whoever viewing them is not in charge for such decisions and they wouldn't even realise it would help the company.

You would be surprised, it works great unless you are dealing with massive conglomerates. Even in mid sized companies when you have an email address that looks like, or is a better match, usually some employee will want some brownie points with the boss and bring it up.

I remember when I ran a Mercedes-Benz Franchise and someone registered a domain similar to mine. They were not a domainer but were a customer and they thought it would be great to have a similar address. It was brought to my attention by a salesman who was strutting in to see me saying.... did you see this?

I had the .com and the client had the .ca and even back then I was smart enough to offer the customer a free oil change for it and ended up with the domain.

 

[Name Trader]

Sounds promising. If it's not a hiccup.

 

[IMEZI]

beware with trademark infringement, product name usually legally registered...

 

[atinc]

Hello,

A moment ago, I decided to do an outbound for one my domain name without much end user.

So this company has a product whose name is EMD of my domain name but their company name isn't

In the last 1 hour, there has been 21 views on my email at an interval of 1-2 minutes per view as reported by Streak. Initially, I dismissed it as not being important but on second thought, I wonder what could be triggering those views or could it be a glitch?

Make sure those views are from the receiver. On streak it also counts the views from the sender. If you move your mouse on the views you can see the details such as location and which device the e-mail is viewed.

If all the 21 views are from the receiver, it could have been forwarded to relevant people in company to be viewed. But 21 views in 2 mins is something very unusual.

Are the locations and the devices different than each other for those 21 views?

Best of luck!

 

[4pm]

Yup, I am.

Google (gmail) caches all images you attach to your emails

..and that's what email trackers do - they attach an (1x1 pixel) image to every email you send

after first call to the image hosting server every next email (image) opening is served by google caching servers

so basically by caching those images Gmail let your email tracker to detect the image download only once.
when the email is read for the first time... no exception.
..which they gladly report as "email was read"

all subsequent downloads (email openings) are served from Google cache servers.
and under no condition will your email tracker can see/count/detect them as the requests are being served by google not tracker's servers

when they report more than 1 "email read" events they either
have a glitch in their software,
or
Google is doing some sort of re-indexing/re-caching stuff on their servers or just has its glitches too.. they always have some

 

[Name Trader]

Hello, thanks for sharing. what is a generic email, any example?

google gmail is the best example with some generic word. if you can find one not taken

 

[jideofor]

And now, 31 views but not a single reply since.

 

[Want2learn]

Are there bids at Namejet? Seems like Tuesday would be a good time to follow up. If you are in the US that is. Tomorrow is one of our national holidays! Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday is celebrated tomorrow.

 

[Want2learn]

Follow up tomorrow then. Even if they say to fly a kite, you gain valuable experience for next time.

 

[jideofor]

Streak email tracking.
Do you see location like IP and city, whether apple mail etc..
?

I see the device used to view the email, which is a desktop pc and only the name of the location.. no IP revealed.

 

[jideofor]

today's follow up with a buy now link is even worse lol.. got 30 views before i could come back... this is funny and weird at the same time lol

 

[MapleDots]

Hello, thanks for sharing. what is a generic email, any example?

google gmail is the best example with some generic word. if you can find one not taken

Yup, you don't want to use [email protected]

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This means that your message was sent to the group email-address... so it was received by all members of this group.
I had such case in the past... Was also reported a spam complaint and my previous SMTP provider banned my account.

 

[jideofor]

This means that your message was sent to the group email-address... so it was received by all members of this group.
I had such case in the past... Was also reported a spam complaint and my previous SMTP provider banned my account.

Oh wow. I think this is the case.

 

[namemarket]

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

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Absolutely brilliant of you thinking of that. It's also easy to do with little work and has another interesting benefit. How many times did you do it? Did it work on more than that one name?

 

[alcy]

pretty good suggestion there for email @maple

this reminds me of some of those redirect landers where it tries to sell you your name@ some email domain address. monthly or annual or what not.. I wonder if anyone makes money on that..

 

[atinc]

Lets just say it's a trick I use when I don't want to engage the company directly without wanting them to know it's me. They could claim I am sitting on an exact match domain for the sole purpose of selling it. I mean technically I am, but I don't really buy domains with only one end user in mind. If I think one end user is an exemplary match and the email address is better than what they are currently using then I usually initiate this process.

Very interesting method but I guess it would only work for small size companies. Its almost impossible to attract big and mid size companies with this method cause whoever viewing them is not in charge for such decisions and they wouldn't even realise it would help the company.

 

[jideofor]

I sold an exact match domain a couple years back and I did not want to contact the company.

What I did is....

I made an [email protected] email address and made sure it resolved so I got the email.

Then I used a generic gmail account that could not be traced to me and contacted the company (via their contact form) as a client. I said I emailed them a product question at [email protected] and have received no response. I said that is very poor customer service. The company contacted me via email and I made an excuse... got it somewhere else.

Two weeks later I was contacted by the company and I sold the domain. I never once initiated formal dialogue because I wanted to pretend I was not really interested.

When you cannot sell a domain... sell the email address

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Oh wow... thanks for this.

 

[jideofor]

it could be anything .. everything.. or nothing.
until there is an offer in your email box or landing page
fingers crossed

True

 

[jideofor]

Make sure those views are from the receiver. On streak it also counts the views from the sender. If you move your mouse on the views you can see the details such as location and which device the e-mail is viewed.

If all the 21 views are from the receiver, it could have been forwarded to relevant people in company to be viewed. But 21 views in 2 mins is something very unusual.

Are the locations and the devices different than each other for those 21 views?

Best of luck!

It is from same location and no, it wasn't under 2 minutes but accumulated under 1 hour, while reporting each views every 2-3 minutes. I just checked now it rose to 28 views lol. not like I am expecting a sale though.