September 17th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
Whiney.com – one word aged brandable domain . Make it your portal to complaints, parody, or humor site. Instantly recognizable and used for children as young as babies all the way up to the Ray Romano voiced adults of us.
Make it yours today – Please email me for details …. gramma at ix.netcom.com!
September 9th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
I submitted some domains to the cax/domaining.com auction site. http://www.cax.com/slickestdomainsInteresting once they were listed they are now color coded as to whether this software considers them a good deal or not. Whatever.
What matters to me is EYES on my domains. How much traffic is going to this page. Are they just hoping for people listing to be the people buying too? Because there are WAY more people selling than there are buying. Love the site, love the opportunity it presents, just would love to see something sold too!
There are two with NO RESERVE!
September 8th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
More domains sold in the past few weeks – including
redkitten.com
yourforecast.com
slickest.com
fighttown.com
perfidia.com
Working on contacting end users for more.
I also have some domains in the auction at Webmaster Access Amsterdam September 15. They are priced to sell.
February 10th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
I’ve looked at mail from both sides now. I’ve been helping a real estate broker generate leads and set up mailing lists. I understand they’re like a gold mine for sales. Yesterday I started deleting myself from some of the lists that I’ve been getting for years and just “CLICK” into my trash file. Doing this deletion has taught me some pretty good ‘tricks’ to bring back to lead generation.
I unsubscribed myself to 26 lists yesterday. Of these 32, only 8 allowed me to just click a link and be unsubscribed immediately, without doing anything further on my part. Of those 8, 5 wanted me to voluntarily tell them why I was unsubscribing. 11 sites made me click some selections before allowing me to unsubscribe. 1 forced me to tell them why I was unsubscribing, 5 told me it would be 10 days before I was removed from the list, and with 7 I had to sign in to the website and manually change my subscription settings.
None of them offered me an incentive to keep my subscription besides getting a condensed version rather than the daily. Send me a ipad, I’ll keep trashing your newsletter!
Here’s the big kicker (to me anyway) – 7 of those 32 emailed me to tell me I was unsubscribed .. Didn’t I just tell them not to mail me anymore?
I know I’m still not done, I’ve unsubscribed to 11 already this morning, and it isn’t noon yet. How on earth did I let myself get caught up in so much of this stuff! I thought I was pretty careful to mark the Xdo not send me crap box whenever I enter my information anywhere.
One of the dirtiest tricks I think they’re pulling is the “you’ll be off our list in 10 days” WHY? Really? Do you have to teach a chicken to type first? There is no reason that unsubscribes shouldn’t happen immediately.
Bye Bye Dr Douglas Bye Bye Boxed Art Bye Bye Bloomingdale’s Bye Bye Betty Crocker, and yes .. Bye Bye Victoria’s Secret. I haven’t been able to fit in their stuff for 10 years!
As a footnote, I got an email that I thought was hilarious. One of the blogger spammers posted a comment to one of my blogs, and then clicked “email me on followups”. So now this spammer is getting all the spammer comment followups! He emailed me and asked me to fix it … ha ha yah right! Enjoy the Spam!
February 8th, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Nancy
You know – i love the domain biz sooo much that I’ve been brokering some names for a few people. Had a nice XX,XXX sale last week, waiting on payment today. Sold cheapweb.com and a few other hosting domains priced at XXX. It’s really gratifying to see someone else’s list of domains, it just opens a whole new realm of possibilites. I am under a 3 month contract to sell another domain, and I spent hours yesterday researching and searching for contact information, and then constructing my sales letter. I wrote to 5 different industries, and about 25 people. I made several phone calls. These were my top picks.
At first glance I didn’t think much of the domain, and especially at the price he was asking, but the more research I did, the more valuable I could see it was as well. I wish I could do this every day. One nice sale like cheapweb.com a week would do me good!
Don’t know what it is, (maybe the money? lol) but there is something very exciting, almost like a gambling rush, when I find a buyer. it’s addictive!
UPDATE – the person who offered XX,XXX on cheapweb.com put us off for a week waiting for the ‘last’ of the money, and finally, after a little insistent emailing from me, admitted that “an investor backed out’ – whatever. Don’t offer someone an amount you don’t have for a domain name! This offer was from the admin at cheetahhost.net. I lost over a week promoting the domain for sale because of this. Still peeved.
January 25th, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Nancy
I’ve spent every day for the past month doing searches, research, and emailing and messaging people about domains for sale. I chose a few names and decided to just concentrate on trying to sell them. It’s been a little bit of fun trying to find end users. My results have been fairly satisfying too. I sold one domain to an end user that I found by searching my domain term. They didn’t even try to bargain me down. I sold 8 adult domains from posting in some webmaster forums. I have 2 more pending, that I emailed a program owner, and my domains are within his ‘niche’. I had a counter offer of $100 for a domain I was asking $1000 for, which I declined. I need to work that one harder.
The domain forums aren’t paying off for me. I can’t believe people posting and asking for a domain with 5 letters, traffic, and PR5, and their budget is $20. and people are pming them – with what, of course I don’t know – but they’re giving them something.
So – 11 domains sold this month, so far. I still have some fresh prospects out that I did over the weekend. I really think one of them will pop. Herbs are big.
Trying to decide which domains I’m going to target next month. Would be great to do a repeat of this month.
@Update – 12 domains this month -!
January 16th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
I’ve been trying to sell something for weeks now. I’ve did tons of research and contacted potential end users. Unsure whether my letters are crappy, prices are too high, or people just don’t understand the importance of a domain name.
For instance… I contacted end user who has a product .. let’s call it bronkofoozball.com I offered them the name “bronko.com” at low XXXX. Seems like a no brainer to me. Sometimes I feel like copying them blog posts and articles backing up the reasons why they should buy this domain name, and why it’s a long term BARGAIN for them. Maybe I should. Coincidentally, the next morning after sending out that email, I get an offer via domainsponsor.com for bronko.com for $50 from a kid whose nickname is Bronko. At least he understands the importance of branding!
Sometimes it’s as easy as typing in your domain keyword to find end users, but when, like me, you don’t have those generic terms, but more specialized brandified names, you have to get a little more creative. Don’t disregard out of hand that bloggers using your domain name on a free host won’t be interested. They’re worth sending an email to! I’m gathering ideas for yourforecast.com right now. I was thinking weather when I bought it way back then, but now I see it has value in the psychic and financial fields as well.
I do think I may put together a list of some of my favorite articles about the importance of having the ‘right’ domain name, and even having more than one. It wouldn’t hurt to post them in the emails as well.
I’m anxious to try out estibot.com’s end user tool, and soon as the program gets my membership request sorted out. I remember when this program was first rolled out, and have watched it like a proud Aunt as it’s gone through it’s many changes and upgrades. Of course now that I’m hooked, I’m going to have to pay for it lol. Good job!
January 11th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
I spend a couple hours each day looking for people looking for domains, contacting them, and giving them a good price on the domains I have, that, in my opinion, match what they’re looking for. Rarely, I sell one, even more rarely do I even get an acknowledgement that they’ve looked at my message or list. I really prefer getting one like the one I got the other day, “Thanks, but I don’t like any of them” to not getting any acknowledgement at all. Even a cut and paste job would be fine by me. It’s common courtesy people – Thank you – No, Thank you!
I have all the ‘domains wanted’ websites added to my bookmarks toolbar, so that I can easily click through and check each of them every morning, noon, and night. It’s a good idea to think outside the ‘domain forum’ box, and find some other forums that have some discussion, even though they aren’t focused on domain buying and selling. If you have adult names, then find some adult discussion boards that allow posting of things for sale, and search for ‘wanted’ posting there as well.
With so many people getting in the domain business, the competition to get those names out there and sold is great. Prices have dropped when selling forum to forum. Sometimes dropped quite ridiculously! Try to find those end users! If you use godaddy, take advantage of their premium services. If someone checks for a domain, and it happens to belong to you, godaddy will give them your price and they can buy it right then. I’ve had a little bit of luck with this. My only complaint being it took 45 days to get paid, which is ridiculous since godaddy has control of the domain name, but whatever Parsons whatever.
I’m going to print out my domain list today and do a lot of googling and research, sometimes its the domains you least expect that have the most end user value. I sold divadivine.com to an end user a couple weeks ago, and THEY contacted me. Good thing, as that was a domain I wouldn’t have thought to research until way at the end of the list! Hopefully I’ll find a few more gems like that one! Looking for end users for lovemexican.com and lovemexicans.com among a few more today!
Happy Domaining!
January 3rd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Nancy
I always felt pretty secure with privacy protection on my domain names. I actually didn’t think about it much at all, except when the renewals came due. That all changed last week when I read Rick Schwartz’s blog, and subsequently Moniker’s press release on a privacy breach at their company. A privacy breach concerns me on several levels.
I used privacy to avoid having to deal with telemarketers, and trolls looking to sell me something, or to protect me from folks that might not agree with my opinions or business model. Some people just don’t want their business out there for everyone to see, period. When you trust a company to handle your private information, including maybe even where you live (which can now be accessed down to your door knob on google earth), you really expect it to BE private, even to their employees.
I wonder to what level the privacy was protected?
When faced with a great deal of data, in my mind, it’s just that data. A lot of words and symbols that I don’t take a lot of notice of, and that I definitely don’t retain in my memory. I believe in this instance, it was targeted and searched out, and then used for nefarious purposes.
How can this be stopped? What kind of assurances can we receive that something like this won’t happen to us? Should it take a court order to release that private information? What levels of privacy should we expect?
I know we are required to give accurate information which is checked yearly by ICANN, so gone are the days of just making something up as the WHOIS on domain registration.
If someone really wants to know who owns a domain, there are ways to do it beyond privacy protection. Just depends on how bad you want to know.
The internet knows everything else we do and say and eat and where we are, why shouldn’t it know all the domains we own too.
December 22nd, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Nancy
It’s happened before with me, there just comes a time when I have to say goodbye. Torrie.com (rated x don’t go there) and I have had a great run. When I actively pursued the adult business, this was a very very popular website. No accounting for tastes I guess. Torrie is a real person, and I bought the domain because it was her stage name, and of course a natural for a personal website for her. I didn’t know who Torrie Wilson was at that time, or that a first name domain name was valuable. It still makes me a nice little income each month, but it hasn’t been updated for at least 2 years, and Torrie has been retired for almost 5 years.
It’s time to sell it. I think it’s worth at least 10,000 even in this recession. If i don’t get any interest via my contacts, I may put it on Sedo – but of course will have to ask more because of their fees if I do that. We’ll see, no hurry, as I said it still gives me money every month.
So torrie.com is for sale!
***SOLD****
Nancy bought her first domain in 1997 and her last domain yesterday. She's been a successful webmaster and domainer. Want to know more? Just ask!
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