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Including an offer in the first contact is essential. Without it, I won't even reply to your email or return your phone call, no matter how many times you follo

Including an offer in the first contact is essential. Without it, I won't even reply to your email or return your phone call, no matter how many times you follow up (without an offer). I don't want to sell my domains, but I'll take any serious offer under consideration. Another tip: Don't play dirty. I caught someone trying to initiate a transfer on one of my domains without my knowledge. Naturally, it failed. Out of spite, I snapped up the .net and .org counterparts, which were still available. If it weren't for that dick move, I probably would have pointed out that they were there for the taking.

jacques_chester 15y ago
I always buy the .net and .org versions of a domain. It's cheap and it prevents people pinching my traffic. I thought this was standard practice ever since the slashdot.com debacle.
- jacquesm 15y ago
  Slashdot chose to run the .org as their main domain. If they had bought the .com the .org would never have been worth as much as it was in the reverse case.
  - jacques_chester 15y ago
    My point is that for a while, somebody ran a .com which put .org in an iframe and put advertising above it. If Slashdot had owned the .com, it wouldn't have happened. An Australian example is crikey.com.au, who for years were troubled by people referring to them as crikey.com -- in print media, on TV, even in Hansard.
larrys 15y ago
"Without it, I won't even reply to your email or return your phone call, no matter how many times you follow up (without an offer)" So you are saying that if someone wrote to you from a corporate address at General Electric ge.com you wouldn't reply to an inquiry if they didn't make an offer? And taking that one step further that person who is a serious buyer could be masking their identity behind a gmail account. I think it's a mistake not to reply to an email. Even if just to say "not for sale make offer" or whatever you want to say. Many times brokers (who have valid buyers with money) are inquiring. If they don't get a response they will move on. Just my perspective I'm a big believer in always responding.
- jackalope 15y ago
  Since I'm not in the business of parking domains and have no interest in selling the domains I have, the onus is on the prospective buyer to get me interested. I routinely get inquiries about my domains, and most of them are so one-sided and cagey, it's obvious they'll be a waste of my time. Not everyone feels the way I do, but if you want to buy a domain someone already owns, it doesn't hurt to start with a serious offer from a real address with full contact details.

jacques_chester 15y ago

I always buy the .net and .org versions of a domain. It's cheap and it prevents people pinching my traffic. I thought this was standard practice ever since the slashdot.com debacle.

jacquesm 15y ago
Slashdot chose to run the .org as their main domain. If they had bought the .com the .org would never have been worth as much as it was in the reverse case.
- jacques_chester 15y ago
  My point is that for a while, somebody ran a .com which put .org in an iframe and put advertising above it. If Slashdot had owned the .com, it wouldn't have happened. An Australian example is crikey.com.au, who for years were troubled by people referring to them as crikey.com -- in print media, on TV, even in Hansard.

larrys 15y ago

"Without it, I won't even reply to your email or return your phone call, no matter how many times you follow up (without an offer)" So you are saying that if someone wrote to you from a corporate address at General Electric ge.com you wouldn't reply to an inquiry if they didn't make an offer? And taking that one step further that person who is a serious buyer could be masking their identity behind a gmail account. I think it's a mistake not to reply to an email. Even if just to say "not for sale make offer" or whatever you want to say. Many times brokers (who have valid buyers with money) are inquiring. If they don't get a response they will move on. Just my perspective I'm a big believer in always responding.

jackalope 15y ago
Since I'm not in the business of parking domains and have no interest in selling the domains I have, the onus is on the prospective buyer to get me interested. I routinely get inquiries about my domains, and most of them are so one-sided and cagey, it's obvious they'll be a waste of my time. Not everyone feels the way I do, but if you want to buy a domain someone already owns, it doesn't hurt to start with a serious offer from a real address with full contact details.