Archive for February, 2013

Do not develop your domains if you are willing to sell them

Posted by AbdulBasit Makrani on February 25th, 2013

Do-not-develop-your-domains-if-you-are-willing-to-sell-themIt’s my experience and I am sure no other expert domainer will disagree at this point. I have been developing some of domains for several years and have been parking as well. Just make sure of one thing as I am talking here about mini sites vs parking your domains. If you have the purpose of selling the domain by developing a mini website and waiting for the offers to come in than you are on wrong path.

There will be marginal chances of receiving any inquiries for the purchase of your domain. I suggest you to create a landing page of your own or park your domains where it’s clearly mentioned the domain is for sale. This increases the chance of receiving inquiries. I will give you an example of one domain which I have developed for quite some time OTAL.com. If I remember correctly I have not received an inquiry in the whole 2012. Whereas I have some low quality LLLL.com domains compare to OTAL.com and have been receiving frequent inquiries.

One of the reason behind the developed website is the potential buyer of that domain might think the project already exists and surely the current owner won’t sell his profitable company. I know many of you disagree because developed websites do sell but here I am talking the type of buyers who are not interested in buying only domain and not willing to pay anything extra for the existing project. There can be several reasons for that. One of them is the potential buyer is not willing to continue the project you have developed and have different plans and ideas for that domain.

So to conclude the post I would once again suggest you guys to create your own landing page for the domain or park at some good companies like InternetTraffic.com, Voodoo.com, Bodis.com to get more exposure in order to sell your domain names.

Feel free to shoot any comments. No matter how good or bad they are 😉

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Domain investor prefers to drop his domains instead of selling me privately!

Posted by AbdulBasit Makrani on February 19th, 2013

Domain-investor-prefers-to-drop-his-domains-instead-of-selling-me-privatelyThis is really interesting and somewhat shocking to me. I inquired about a domain name which I saw was owned by a domain investor who owns hundreds of decent domain names and that particular domain was recently expired. The domain owner said he has realized that buying domain names solely for the purpose of selling them at higher price no longer makes him feel good. This is the reason he has started dropping many of his domains and scaling down the portfolio and even lowered asking price as well for the remaining names under his portfolio.

He even said that it doesn’t feel good to sell domains to an investor. He actually wants the name to be dropped for general public to register it at normal prices. It’s quite amazing that a domain investor who owns hundreds of quality domains have no idea that a decent domain dropping will straightaway be caught by SnapNames/NameJet who will auction the name and most of the time it will go in the hands of domain reseller.

I even tried to explain him once again about the above scenario that the domains will go into auction house and won’t be available for general public to hand register domains and I got the following reply:

“But I still prefer to drop the domains since that increases the chance of them becoming available to the public.”

Although he was kind enough in explaining everything and was nice to communicate with him. He even offered me reseller price for some of my domains which I politely rejected.

I wonder if any one of you have ever encountered similar situation with any domain investors? Any comments are welcome, no matter how bad or good 😉

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Any of you had success in selling .CO domain names?

Posted by AbdulBasit Makrani on February 13th, 2013

Any-of-you-had-success-in-selling-.CO-domain-namesI am curious to know if any one had real success in selling .CO domain names? Actually success can be defined in many ways by different people. I invested very little amount of money in .CO domains. Didn’t bought any domain in Landrush. Just pre-registered and hand registered domains only. Some of which I sold them at quite nice price. One of my notable .CO sale was Textbooks.CO which I sold for US$12,000. Rest were four figure sales.

I consider it success for myself because my five figure sale of .CO was hand registered domain like other sales. It’s interesting to know that I didn’t sold a single pre-registered domains. Only a handful of hand reg domains were sold to date.

While sharing this with you I recall one of my .CO sale. It was really funny and quick sale. I just completed one domain sale and the person’s email ID was ending with his company name .com and I thought to check if .CO is available and try to sell him. First step was to buy the domain and later I offered him. He simply laughed at me that I registered the domain recently and trying to sell him. He showed no interest and I kept that domain with me for 8-9 months.

As the expiration date was coming I thought to drop the domain because that was the only company who could have shown interest ever. Out of nowhere, that guy contacted me back and asked if the domain was still available. I asked him to make me an offer. That particular time I thought to renew the domain for at least one year because he has shown some interest in buying it. The initial offer was US$150 and ended up at US$1,000 and I grabbed that money. It was a 3 word .CO domain 😉

How is your experience in selling .CO domain names? Any success story you would like to share? Don’t be shy… Just do it 😉

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Find all the indexed sites in Google with any domain extension

Posted by AbdulBasit Makrani on February 10th, 2013

Find-all-indexed-sites-by-Google-with-any-extensionOne of my blog reader asked if I knew about finding all the sites in any particular extension at Google.com. For example he wanted to find all the .co.uk indexed sites in Google. It’s really interesting to find out because when .CO was launched I was curious to know how many sites have been developed and indexed by Google in first couple of months.

You simply need to type site:.co.uk or site:.co – You can change the extension with any one you are looking to find. It’s as simple as that. I am not sure how the sites are displayed in order. Whether the quality, traffic, PR or the combination of some factors because I was unable to figure out why sites like going to a park page are even listed in top 100 which is really surprising to me and must be for others as well.

Do you have any idea about this? Did you found this tip useful for yourself?

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Thanks to the seller who renewed domain before pushing in my account!

Posted by AbdulBasit Makrani on February 6th, 2013

Thanks-to-the-seller-who-renewed-domain-before-pushing-in-my-accountI won’t disclose for which domain I am talking about but you will still find interesting reading out.

I recently purchased a domain which was already renewed till mid of 2013. I always prefer to have the domain at GoDaddy but the seller wanted to push at the same registrar (which wasn’t GoDaddy). Once the payment was approved by Escrow.com, the buyer initiated the push under my account but it was really shocking to see the expiration date of the domain was 2015!

Once the domain was secured by me, I immediately sent message to the seller and asked why he was humble enough to renew the domain for not only 1 year but a couple of years. I never got any response from him so far. Although the deal has been completed few months back.

He wasn’t very friendly while exchanging emails. I was actually trying to acquire that domain for more than 1 year and he responded only 2-3 times and I sent him around 15 emails. Although he agreed to the price which was very much reasonable; no doubt about that. But I still wonder why he renewed the domain for 2 years before pushing to my account. The domain wasn’t transferred to another registrar from which I can assume of 1 year extension. It was simply a push to another account at same registrar. So it’s for sure the seller renewed the domain. I would give a big thanks to the seller who not only renewed the domain for couple of years without my permission 😉 but also sold the domain at reasonable price.

Have you experienced like this before? Any big heart seller you like this faced in the past 😉 ? I would love to hear your experiences.

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