End-User Sales

[DavidH]

I am obviously positioned at a much lower end of the market than many of the posts above but so far this month I have had eight end user sales in the low $xxx price band, with three of the customers asking me if I could get any more domain names for them that were relevant to their business.

All sales have been achieved by me initially looking for an end user by email contact and then taking the matter from there whenever anyone responds. Often I will pick up the phone to talk to the guy to complete the negotiations / deal - for me most of the demand is in the USA or Australia at the moment.

 

[BostonDomainer]

I just sold a cvcv.com for mid x,xxx and another for low xx,xxx. I get no luck when I contact companies directly. They always lowballed when I used to and get defensive with the usual "I can go reg it at Godaddy for $8".... so past few years, I just let them come to me. I have all my names on Sedo and Afternic platform and I park them with Parked with a for sale sign on them. It's too much trouble going after companies imho. If I think a company may interested in a domain, I'll write the head an email asking a question about a company and have the name I am trying to push in my signature or something maybe with a logo. Paid off twice for me and it was GOOD kudos.

 

[domainiac4ever]

Had my first and only end user sale to date back in 2006, when I was 17 -- for $200,000. Not bad, eh?

It was to a publishing company, and they contacted me.

Here is the exact e-mail I received from them, with the exception of the domain name being left out:

"Our client is a publishing company. Inadvertently, the [.com] domain
name was used in one of their publications as a hypothetical domain name.
They need either to acquire the domain name so that any customer visiting
the site will not be exposed to its current content, or to fix/recall the
inventory of this book. The cost of the latter is a bit less than $200,000.
In order the solve the problem with less headache, our client is prepared to
pay you $200,000 within one week of your acceptance of this offer. However,
we must have an answer by Monday, July 31st, because that is the deadline
for launching the inventory fix."

At the time I had adult content on the domain. It was actually a funny flash video of two males having anal sex to do wop music.

Honestly, at first I didn't know what to believe. I thought it was some kind of scam. Also, in the back of my mind I knew I was 17 and couldn't sign a contract and was worried about my mother finding out about the domain content. She wouldn't have been mad, but it just would have been embarrassing, you know?

Anyway, I had my mom call the company's attorney that was going to handle the escrow to find out the details, to make sure it was legit. She just said she was the co-owner of the domain (but really the domain was mine). Other than that, everything else was done by e-mail. Thankfully they made no mention of the content and she never found out.

Gay porn pays! I'm crossing my fingers for another six figure sale one day, but I'm a little more hesitant now about putting adult content on nicer domains out of fear of having the domain taken away. Back then I just wanted to have fun.

Oh, and for the record I bought the domain almost a year prior to the sale for $9,000. I cashed in all my savings bonds to buy it (thanks to my mom, she gave me about 5k when we sold our house to put into a bond... and then when I got the 200k I gave her 25k for a down payment for our new house!)

 

[BostonDomainer]

Had my first and only end user sale to date back in 2006, when I was 17 -- for $200,000. Not bad, eh?

It was to a publishing company, and they contacted me.

Here is the exact e-mail I received from them, with the exception of the domain name being left out:

"Our client is a publishing company. Inadvertently, the [.com] domain
name was used in one of their publications as a hypothetical domain name.
They need either to acquire the domain name so that any customer visiting
the site will not be exposed to its current content, or to fix/recall the
inventory of this book. The cost of the latter is a bit less than $200,000.
In order the solve the problem with less headache, our client is prepared to
pay you $200,000 within one week of your acceptance of this offer. However,
we must have an answer by Monday, July 31st, because that is the deadline
for launching the inventory fix."

At the time I had adult content on the domain. It was actually a funny flash video of two males having anal sex to do wop music.

Honestly, at first I didn't know what to believe. I thought it was some kind of scam. Also, in the back of my mind I knew I was 17 and couldn't sign a contract and was worried about my mother finding out about the domain content. She wouldn't have been mad, but it just would have been embarrassing, you know?

Anyway, I had my mom call the company's attorney that was going to handle the escrow to find out the details, to make sure it was legit. She just said she was the co-owner of the domain (but really the domain was mine). Other than that, everything else was done by e-mail. Thankfully they made no mention of the content and she never found out.

Gay porn pays! I'm crossing my fingers for another six figure sale one day, but I'm a little more hesitant now about putting adult content on nicer domains out of fear of having the domain taken away. Back then I just wanted to have fun.

Oh, and for the record I bought the domain almost a year prior to the sale for $9,000. I cashed in all my savings bonds to buy it (thanks to my mom, she gave me about 5k when we sold our house to put into a bond... and then when I got the 200k I gave her 25k for a down payment for our new house!)

Wow, a great story! The old gay porn tactic eh:hail:

 

[TooManyDomains]

I am obviously positioned at a much lower end of the market than many of the posts above but so far this month I have had eight end user sales in the low $xxx price band, with three of the customers asking me if I could get any more domain names for them that were relevant to their business.

All sales have been achieved by me initially looking for an end user by email contact and then taking the matter from there whenever anyone responds. Often I will pick up the phone to talk to the guy to complete the negotiations / deal - for me most of the demand is in the USA or Australia at the moment.

That's great ROI. So you turned fresh registrations to $xxx sales to companies?

Had my first and only end user sale to date back in 2006, when I was 17 -- for $200,000. Not bad, eh?

It was to a publishing company, and they contacted me.

Here is the exact e-mail I received from them, with the exception of the domain name being left out:

"Our client is a publishing company. Inadvertently, the [.com] domain
name was used in one of their publications as a hypothetical domain name.
They need either to acquire the domain name so that any customer visiting
the site will not be exposed to its current content, or to fix/recall the
inventory of this book. The cost of the latter is a bit less than $200,000.
In order the solve the problem with less headache, our client is prepared to
pay you $200,000 within one week of your acceptance of this offer. However,
we must have an answer by Monday, July 31st, because that is the deadline
for launching the inventory fix."

At the time I had adult content on the domain. It was actually a funny flash video of two males having anal sex to do wop music.

Honestly, at first I didn't know what to believe. I thought it was some kind of scam. Also, in the back of my mind I knew I was 17 and couldn't sign a contract and was worried about my mother finding out about the domain content. She wouldn't have been mad, but it just would have been embarrassing, you know?

Anyway, I had my mom call the company's attorney that was going to handle the escrow to find out the details, to make sure it was legit. She just said she was the co-owner of the domain (but really the domain was mine). Other than that, everything else was done by e-mail. Thankfully they made no mention of the content and she never found out.

Gay porn pays! I'm crossing my fingers for another six figure sale one day, but I'm a little more hesitant now about putting adult content on nicer domains out of fear of having the domain taken away. Back then I just wanted to have fun.

Oh, and for the record I bought the domain almost a year prior to the sale for $9,000. I cashed in all my savings bonds to buy it (thanks to my mom, she gave me about 5k when we sold our house to put into a bond... and then when I got the 200k I gave her 25k for a down payment for our new house!)

That's awesome. Amazing they hit you up with a 200k offer from the start. Would you have taken 15k if they offered it?

 

[domainiac4ever]

That's awesome. Amazing they hit you up with a 200k offer from the start. Would you have taken 15k if they offered it?

No, I don't think so. Mainly because I hadn't even owned the domain for a full year around that point and I didn't want to part with it that soon. 15k is actually one of the higher offers I received for the domain around that time... and I even mentioned to people if I ever sold the domain in the future, there was a good chance that it would have probably been in that range.

Though, never in my wildest dreams did I expect to get the amount I got!

 

[DavidH]

That's great ROI. So you turned fresh registrations to $xxx sales to companies?

The names are obtained from Godaddy expiring section so they do not appear to be fresh registrations which is a great advantage if you want to sell them the day after they are pushed to your Godaddy account. Usually I wait for a while to see if they generate any traffic which can be an additional bonus - I have got a few that I wont sell for low amounts because they turn out to have a bit of earning potential.

 

[Cashcows]

I have few end user sales. Mostly I have sold to other domainers or via this forum or Moniker auctions. I'd say I have done close to $350K in sales so far (over 10 Years) And about $60K maybe was end user sales.

Fortunately most of the time my names pay for themselves. They stopped for a little while when I was parking my adult domains but now that I am back to affiliate marketing the traffic from them they are paying for all 4000+ of my names. For about 300 of my names I am the End user because I bought them for traffic in the first place or to prevent other people getting a good name in my marker sector. )

While I don't have any lucky $200k sells that came out of the blue. All of my sells have been names I bought at Reg prices and are taxed as capital gains )

 

[DTalk]

Had my first and only end user sale to date back in 2006, when I was 17 -- for $200,000. Not bad, eh?

It was to a publishing company, and they contacted me.

Here is the exact e-mail I received from them, with the exception of the domain name being left out:

"Our client is a publishing company. Inadvertently, the [.com] domain
name was used in one of their publications as a hypothetical domain name.
They need either to acquire the domain name so that any customer visiting
the site will not be exposed to its current content, or to fix/recall the
inventory of this book. The cost of the latter is a bit less than $200,000.
In order the solve the problem with less headache, our client is prepared to
pay you $200,000 within one week of your acceptance of this offer. However,
we must have an answer by Monday, July 31st, because that is the deadline
for launching the inventory fix."

At the time I had adult content on the domain. It was actually a funny flash video of two males having anal sex to do wop music.

Honestly, at first I didn't know what to believe. I thought it was some kind of scam. Also, in the back of my mind I knew I was 17 and couldn't sign a contract and was worried about my mother finding out about the domain content. She wouldn't have been mad, but it just would have been embarrassing, you know?

Anyway, I had my mom call the company's attorney that was going to handle the escrow to find out the details, to make sure it was legit. She just said she was the co-owner of the domain (but really the domain was mine). Other than that, everything else was done by e-mail. Thankfully they made no mention of the content and she never found out.

Gay porn pays! I'm crossing my fingers for another six figure sale one day, but I'm a little more hesitant now about putting adult content on nicer domains out of fear of having the domain taken away. Back then I just wanted to have fun.

Oh, and for the record I bought the domain almost a year prior to the sale for $9,000. I cashed in all my savings bonds to buy it (thanks to my mom, she gave me about 5k when we sold our house to put into a bond... and then when I got the 200k I gave her 25k for a down payment for our new house!)

Wonderful story....

.

 

[nattydomain]

Just had another end user sale from my website..... Buyer paid direct from the link thrgh paypal......New owner is from a realty company it seems.

Mine always come right out of the blue......even though its blue about every 4 months

 

[domainiac4ever]

I have few end user sales. Mostly I have sold to other domainers or via this forum or Moniker auctions. I'd say I have done close to $350K in sales so far (over 10 Years) And about $60K maybe was end user sales.

Fortunately most of the time my names pay for themselves. They stopped for a little while when I was parking my adult domains but now that I am back to affiliate marketing the traffic from them they are paying for all 4000+ of my names. For about 300 of my names I am the End user because I bought them for traffic in the first place or to prevent other people getting a good name in my marker sector. )

While I don't have any lucky $200k sells that came out of the blue. All of my sells have been names I bought at Reg prices and are taxed as capital gains )

Very nice! Especially since you've made all that money from domains you got at reg price. Impressive!

 

[blogcrash]

Here goes my (almost single) end user sale history!

I had a domain for sale here in DNForum and received a $40 offer. Said no.
After 2 weeks I was needing some money and decided to add a BIN of 2K for a pack of 13 domains in the same thread. Including the domain i sold later.

One more week and nothing.

One more day and received a contact offering me $1,5K for one of that domains. The $40 one, remember?

I replied that i would love to sell the domain but only for $2K and buyer paying escrow fees.

Sold... was was the answer

Domaining it's really a surprise every day!

 

[thevirtual]

Here goes my (almost single) end user sale history!

I had a domain for sale here in DNForum and received a $40 offer. Said no.
After 2 weeks I was needing some money and decided to add a BIN of 2K for a pack of 13 domains in the same thread. Including the domain i sold later.

One more week and nothing.

One more day and received a contact offering me $1,5K for one of that domains. The $40 one, remember?

I replied that i would love to sell the domain but only for $2K and buyer paying escrow fees.

Sold... was was the answer

Domaining it's really a surprise every day!

Congrats

I remember accepting an offer of $200 domain on DNForum. The buyer never paid for the domain or replied. A few days later I received an offer of $1.5k through Sedo for the same domain. Sold!

 

[blogcrash]

Congrats

I remember accepting an offer of $200 domain on DNForum. The buyer never paid for the domain or replied. A few days later I received an offer of $1.5k through Sedo for the same domain. Sold!

Congrats also my friend

I always prefer to assume the risk.

Today a guy offered me $40 for 22 of my domains.
I said thanks, but No Thanks!

Since i have all my domains for sale also on sedo, and in my website, sometimes i prefer to take the risk and wait until the expire date, and then decide to renew or not.

Someone here in DNForum offered me $150 for Launched.Me
He said that i would never make more than that with that domain.
Didn't accepted.
I have the domain reged until 2010... what do i have to lose if i wait one more year? 40 bucks?
Not a problem.
Launch.Me it's owned by yahoo... so i prefer to take the risk and wait!

Life is just like that... a risk everyday!

 

[chillking]

I haver tryed to sell names to end users but had no luck by contacting them. However i have sold a few names to end users but only when they contacted me the last one i was $1400 I have also refused a end users offer because it was low.
I think you can sell name by contacting end users you have just got to put all good points to them about the name and how it will benefit their company some people are good at it some people are not but i think the more you try the better chance you have.

 

[ShangTsung]

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[chillking]

Lucas i know what you mean some times its good tp phone a company and talk with the marketing department they know its real then.

 

[copper]

Had few enduser sales like $2K, $500, $1.5K, but, all very slow paying

 

[dicko]

Who is the person you try to contact in a Company that can make a discussion on buying a Domain.

Do you send them an email or post

Thanks

 

[Theo]

In order of preference:

VP of project development
CEO
Other high ranking officer.

Try to avoid IT, webmasters and other tech guys. Go high up the corporate ladder.