question Who is the Guy buying all Driverless, Selfdriving & Selfdrive Domains

[Together4Forever]

Who so ever is in driverless or self driving niche knows or have heard of talks of Sean buying all domains possible in this Niche.

Once the purchase is finalised the domain is actually bought by:

[email protected]

Who owns RaiseAwareness.com, I feel this is an alias for a Top Industry Domainer.

Can anyone crack the puzzle who this is?????

 

[deez007]

Lol...

I think u might have just made this dude's life a bit of a misery...

I suspected that email address is now going to get spammed to death with loads of pigeon sh*t
domains related to the niche...hahaha..

stuff like driverlesscar.forex or selfdrivecar.dental...

 

[RU]

Who is the Guy buying all Driverless, Selfdriving & Selfdrive Domains

robot ?

 

[gilescoley]

Besides DriverlessCar.com, I cant see many other good names there, all those .info and .us names are a waste of money IMO

 

[gilescoley]

I agree when we are talking about big buys , but when you buy early/cheap , you better spread it around some terms . if you throw enough mud , some will stick

True, but this happens all the time on NP and other domain forums, where people have spent $5k or 10k on average quality .com names (mainly because the good ones were taken) or .us or .info names, it would have been better spent on 2 .com names, or good .co.uk or .de names

Its fine getting names using the different terms (driverless, autonomous, selfdriving) but you have to get at least decent names in all 3 and get names you can sell cheaply if you can sell to end-users

 

[Chris Hydrick]

Apparently Brian likes .US and .INFO domains. [All @ GoDaddy]

See attached text list for 100 .INFO / .US self driving related domains owned by this mysterious person.

 

[lennco]

Who so ever is in driverless or self driving niche knows or have heard of talks of Sean buying all domains possible in this Niche.

Once the purchase is finalised the domain is actually bought by:

[email protected]

Who owns RaiseAwareness.com, I feel this is an alias for a Top Industry Domainer.

Can anyone crack the puzzle who this is?????

I have talked with Sean many times on a few of my Autonomous domains.
Also a few other members here have dealt with him, some have sold to him and some have not.
I have not.

I almost sold way too cheap to them ($12k) but I said no.
Sean's not a bad guy, he is just trying to get good deals on great names.
I cant blame them, I would be doing the same if I had the money they have to invest.
$12k is nice, but I will wait for $50k

 

[MetaverseBranding]

Why the determination to put his information out in the public domain? Just curious?

I do agree with this statement.

Yes he's been a good buyer for the niche but he deserves privacy.

 

[gilescoley]

he owns many others .

he got a lot of driverless,selfdriving & autonomous coms , not all are seen yet.

He needs to narrow the portfolio down if he has premium .com names in this niche, all those renewals from less than premium .coms, info, us etc will dent the profits of the sales he makes. Even if it happens, you need to identify which term will be commonly used , will it be "driverless", will it be "self driving" or will it be automomous"..it certainly wont be all 3.

There are tools and custom scripts to run that will show all the names he owns

 

[Elad n]

Its the only way to go, if you research enough, you can tell what will be used, the same tactic works with other niches all the time. Its like VR, there a lot of other terms being thrown around Virtu, Virt, Virtuality, VRX, vKeyword etc etc, in the end, there is always one major terms that kicks ass, and the others fade away or dribble in with a few lower sales here and there.

Why pay decent money for all these names with various terms and then you sell one for $5k or $10k and your profit is only $500 when you deduct all your renewals from the other names.

I agree when we are talking about big buys , but when you buy early/cheap , you better spread it around some terms . if you throw enough mud , some will stick

 

[MetaverseBranding]

I agree when we are talking about big buys , but when you buy early/cheap , you better spread it around some terms . if you throw enough mud , some will stick

Agree, if you reg'd a sensible amount of domains across the mentioned keywords you are probably clever in the fact that you have diversified you're portfolio. But spending $5k + for each domain in each of these niches makes it an higher risk stake.

Obviously he's probably bought some great keywords so the potential to make a good ROI is still potentially there.

From the research I have done, my bet would be the self-driving word is picking up the most traction. It gets used now in most articles, experts in the industry are using the term mostly and big companies like google branded their cars they have been testing "self-driving".

Obviously we don't know for sure which term will go public but if I was spending $x,xxx range I would be going selfdriving route myself.

autonomous is a techie kind of word to describe the technology.

driverless sounds dangerous, telsa was recently ordered to drop the term autopilot for similar reasons. To say a vehicle is driverless indicates there cannot be any sort of human manual intervention, which from a safety aspect, I cannot see industry watchdogs passing such a term.

self-driving is what these vehicles are designed to achieve. No word really prohibiting manual intervention, so a safer keyword compared to driverless.

JMO though.

 

[MetaverseBranding]

Wheres all the sales for these Ive checked namebio

Autonomousvehicles was in 2014 1.9K usd
seasonalselfdrive.com 117 USD 2015-03-20 GoDaddy
driverlessautomobile.com 1,100 USD 2016-10-24 BuyDomains
driverlessmotors.com 120 USD 2016-05-22 Flippa

Nothing much else.

So for him to be buying all those means he knows something the rest of us dont.
So the question becomes what scraps are we left with lol.

Most of the purchases are not reported on namebio.

Put it this way, 1.9k was cheap compared to some of the domains that have been sold or offers that have been received in this niche.

There have been $xx,xxx range offers that I know of.

 

[Chris Hydrick]

I have talked with Sean many times on a few of my Autonomous domains.

Just to be clear, the buyer isn't Sean Parker? ... or is he

 

[lennco]

I suspected that email address is now going to get spammed to death with loads of pigeon sh*t
domains related to the niche...hahaha..

stuff like driverlesscar.forex or selfdrivecar.dental...

Yea, people shouldn't waste their time, they are only buying top premiums
ie: DriverlessCar,
Not BestDriverlessCar

Just to be clear, the buyer isn't Sean Parker? ... or is he

No

 

[MetaverseBranding]

True, but thats the main niche though that will affect the general public (its a long way away) ..he doesnt own many in other "driverless" names in niches, his others are .info and .us....not really going to flip those

He owns some Driverless boat names, thats even further away, Im not planning on being an old man selling names

I would say Taxis are probably going to be big in this industry. For this niche I prefer the taxi keyword over car but obviously that is just my opinion.

The real business model in this industry will be car/ride sharing and self-driving taxis.

 

[marcm]

Why the determination to put his information out in the public domain? Just curious?

 

[marcm]

Only way to get privacy in this business is to buy it.
It's a domainers nature to know everything including the personal life of a prospective buyer to maximize Roi . Time to go look, see what he's got

Hi Brian, sure you have heard about this thread by now.

I can understand personal curiosity and a personal drive to gather as much information about a potential customer as possible. I however don't understand why after being contacted by a potential customer - or especially a middle man for a potential customer - wanting privacy, putting that information out there in the public...even if you declined the offer...Just my view...

 

[Pierre Barnard]

Interesting..

 

[Elad n]

Besides DriverlessCar.com, I cant see many other good names there, all those .info and .us names are a waste of money IMO

Not only 'cars' are driverless.

 

[gilescoley]

Not only 'cars' are driverless.

True, but thats the main niche though that will affect the general public (its a long way away) ..he doesnt own many in other "driverless" names in niches, his others are .info and .us....not really going to flip those

He owns some Driverless boat names, thats even further away, Im not planning on being an old man selling names

 

[Elad n]

He needs to narrow the portfolio down if he has premium .com names in this niche, all those renewals from less than premium .coms, info, us etc will dent the profits of the sales he makes. Even if it happens, you need to identify which term will be commonly used , will it be "driverless", will it be "self driving" or will it be automomous"..it certainly wont be all 3.

There are tools and custom scripts to run that will show all the names he owns

i know @gilescoley .

im not sure he is a domainer. spoke to him a week ago and got a different impression but who knows.

choosing a specific term now is a stupid way to go so early in the game .

i do agree he needs to drop all shitty extensions and pay attention carefully to what happens in the market.

 

[lennco]

These are just some of their recent purchases in the past month,

AutonomousCar.com
AutonomousCars.com
AutonomousTruck.com
AutonomousTrucks.com
DriverlessCar.com
DriverlessCars.com
DriverlessTruck.com
DriverlessTrucks.com
SelfDrivingInsurance.com
SelfDrivingBoat.com

 

[gilescoley]

choosing a specific term now is a stupid way to go so early in the game .

Its the only way to go, if you research enough, you can tell what will be used, the same tactic works with other niches all the time. Its like VR, there a lot of other terms being thrown around Virtu, Virt, Virtuality, VRX, vKeyword etc etc, in the end, there is always one major terms that kicks ass, and the others fade away or dribble in with a few lower sales here and there.

Why pay decent money for all these names with various terms and then you sell one for $5k or $10k and your profit is only $500 when you deduct all your renewals from the other names.

He seems to be a Front to one of the top domains of our industry.

I would be very surprised if this was the case if you look at all the .info and .us names he is registering, but I could be wrong.

I certainly hope he does well...

AutonomousCar.com
AutonomousCars.com
AutonomousTruck.com
AutonomousTrucks.com
DriverlessCar.com
DriverlessCars.com
DriverlessTruck.com
DriverlessTrucks.com
SelfDrivingInsurance.com
SelfDrivingBoat.com

Thanks @lennco , these are names he must focus on and not all the other stuff, he is better off dropping the others or flipping them.

SelfDrivingInsurance.com

I wonder who gets sued when they crash, the car owner, the internal computer manufacturer...it opens up a whole can of worms

 

[Corey]

be mindful of what terms are being used...i.e. State of California Department of Motor Vehicles @

Trending -
Autonomous Vehicles

Cheers
Corey

 

[John0]

Wheres all the sales for these Ive checked namebio

Autonomousvehicles was in 2014 1.9K usd
seasonalselfdrive.com 117 USD 2015-03-20 GoDaddy
driverlessautomobile.com 1,100 USD 2016-10-24 BuyDomains
driverlessmotors.com 120 USD 2016-05-22 Flippa

Nothing much else.

So for him to be buying all those means he knows something the rest of us dont.
So the question becomes what scraps are we left with lol.