Please buy my nonexistent domains

[katherine]

Got this through the mail today.
Hint: it is about a domain we bought for 2K, reported in DNJ

Hey,

While preparing to develop and/or sell my domain I noticed you (or your company) are the owner of ##############.com, so I thought you might be interested in my ##############.co.uk or ##############.org. I’m willing to let either go for only $500 or both for $700.

Let me know if you’re interested…

Cheers,

-Aaron ##############
313.##############

Hmm why not but since we own the .com anything else would just be defensive.
Wanna have a look at the whois, how old these names can possibly be
Wait, they are unregistered. Nice, in the shopcart now.

Bottom line: always check the whois before you contemplate buying any name.

Name and phone # edited to protect the guilty

[silentg]

lol I keep getting spam by a guy trying to sell me c-o-m-m-a.com.

[hugegrowth]

I have had the reverse happen too, where I own the .ca or .net, and they offer me the .com. Got some good deals like that in late 2008 and 2009 when the economy was worse.

If you had agreed to buy those domains, and found out they were new regs before paying, would you have gone through with it?

[katherine]

If you had agreed to buy those domains, and found out they were new regs before paying, would you have gone through with it?

That wouldn't happen, because I always do my homework
But it is borderline scam to sell things you don't own.
In fact this mail is a spam. I guess other holders of newly-acquired domains have received it as well.

[Acro]

It's spam on a daily basis from the same dbags, peddling dashed atrocities that don't exist.

[Seraphim]

40 billion emails and 3 months later, he enters into fierce price negotiations over an unregistered domain...

[katherine]

No kidding... I have seen bids for available domains at sedo

[Jeroen]

No kidding... I have seen bids for available domains at sedo

How's that possible, don't they have owner verification?

[katherine]

How's that possible, don't they have owner verification?

It doesn't seem to be perfect.
And a domain that is listed today and validates, could expire and remain listed on sedo for a while.
Many times the owners don't keep their listings up to date.

About two years ago I told sedo to cancel the ongoing auction for co.uk, because it wasn't going to complete anyway