How important is your name when selling

[DomainPairs]

Obviously if you are using a Hotmail address, you are not going to be taken seriously and will find it harder to get a decent price, but how important is it to use the correct domain name for selling?

I tend to use multiple interlinked domains to set up a service, and I've probably got about a dozen for domain management and selling. I'm about to send out a few targeted eMails and was wondering which address to use.

My preference is for www.BuyAny.com, as I feel that www.make-me-an-offer.com is great for suggesting unsolicited offers, but not so good for direct selling. Do you agree, or would I be better off using a more conventional selling name?

[jingle]

I think if you have an attractive domain for your "domains for sale" site or email address it will inspire confidence in your visitors. I don't think the domain has to be related to domains or domain selling to inspire confidence. I see some sellers that are using what I would consider to be a very poor quality domain for their site, and I think their visitors probably think "this person is trying to sell me a domain and look at the one he/she uses for their own site"

[mole]

Very important. Communications 101. You won't want to go selling with a name like i-am-a@scam.com

[DomainPairs]

So do you think www.buyany.com is a good enought name or should I use one of my others like

www.correctnames.com
www.bighot.com
www.any-domain.com

or even m@yfair.com

[mole]

None of the above, pairs Your selling email should speak of credibility and authority.

Something like domainconsultant.biz or domainconsultant.us are some available names that help you with that.

[DomainPairs]

I can't have a .us as I'm English, and I still feel that the only international domains are .coms and .nets. Yes, of course there is a place for the other tlds, but they are still a long way behind the big 2.

How about using nomen.tuum.com then, or shall I not bother with the sub-domain?

[mole]

Originally posted by DomainPairs
I can't have a .us as I'm English, and I still feel that the only international domains are .coms and .nets. Yes, of course there is a place for the other tlds, but they are still a long way behind the big 2.

How about using nomen.tuum.com then, or shall I not bother with the sub-domain?

Of course you can buy a .us domain. Just buy a .us domain from eNom and classify yourself as C3/CC, heh.

Disjointed domains were cute in the past, today they are passe, imo and worth little except to kids. Get the real thing.

[DomainPairs]

I like @ names . I've bought a few

h@mpshire.com
m@yfair.com
n@ughty.com

I've got a language teacher friend that I bought

l@nguage.com for

and several friends that got eMail addys through me.

It appeals to me to write to Hampshire council with the addy

h@mpshire.com

The only annoying thing is having to wrap the url delimiters round them every time I post to stop the spam trawlers finding them.

[Columbia]

It does not matter. Your buyer must love your names. That's it! Even if your name is a b**shit.

[David G]

Originally posted by DomainPairs Obviously if you are using a Hotmail address, you are not going to be taken seriously.....

This is something which happens all the time, be it hotmail yahoo or other free email addresses.

I can't begin to tell you how often I run into that, not just in domain names but buying & selling other misc products and services too not related to domain names.

Often times I am given an address like Joe2435@yahoo.com as the email address of the vice pres or sales manager at XYZ.corp., sometimes its a seemingly impressive company and website, which other than the email address seems credible.

A few times my wondering about an idiotic free email account address actually ruined a deal with them. One guy in particular was not too happy when I asked him why he did not use his firms domain as a professional sounding email address, though it was an obvious thing to do and would have given him so much more credibility as far as being legit goes.

He never did grasp or understand the issue after I explained it to him. I noticed on the firms website he was still using that free yahoo address 2-yrs later, even after he knew he lost my deal in part due to it. What idiots!

[adoptabledomains]

Originally posted by DomainPairs
Obviously if you are using a Hotmail address, you are not going to be taken seriously and will find it harder to get a decent price, but how important is it to use the correct domain name for selling?

I find it hard to take any business serious using a hotmail, yahoo, or even an aol address. Not to mention the fact that many of these addresses are filtered out by spam filters.

I tend to use multiple interlinked domains to set up a service, and I've probably got about a dozen for domain management and selling. I'm about to send out a few targeted eMails and was wondering which address to use.

Sounds complicated, and potentially confusing to the customer. As a customer, if you contact me using different email addresses, I'd be suspect of your trying to hide something just as someone who used alias real names for different situations. To me, multiple emails or free accounts equals "suspected spammer".

My preference is for www.BuyAny.com, as I feel that www.make-me-an-offer.com is great for suggesting unsolicited offers, but not so good for direct selling. Do you agree, or would I be better off using a more conventional selling name?

The "make-me-an-offer" may be okay for your domain contact in whois, but doesn't really make a good company name in my opinion with the three hyphens.

[gariben]

I use dnlock.com for my email communcation.

also put unlock@dnlock.com for all the whois contact.

it's kinda suggesting that I want to sell but doesn't directly say so.