Hi everyone, Recently I received an email from dechem.pttrs@gmail.com with the subject “Special Offer (4L domain .com)” – the 4L .com I removed from the subject. Below is the message I’ve copied: “Dear Domain Owner, My names are Sandra Schulze, a representative of a private firm and I am reaching out to you to inquire […]

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Hello everyone, I’ve been using Sedo.com for the last 17 years and have seen a lot of improvements and have made a few good and great sales through them. I wanted to share some of my experience and give some suggestions regarding Sedo. One of the most needed features is 2FA which should be implemented […]

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Hello everyone, Recently I came across a great tip to find out about a “Pending Sale” at Sedo.com, all credits to Alex Verdea who shared it at Twitter in detail. As per the image above shared by Alex, if you go to your Domain Management and select “Sales Settings” or even “Custom Overview” which is […]

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Hello everyone, This is something part of the domain business and many investors are curious as to what domain owners with thousands of domains under their portfolio do after acquiring the domains. By the way, currently I own 8,600 domains as of now. Okay, so coming back to the topic, below I’ve shared it in […]

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Hello everyone, It’s been around a year since I started moving out my domains from Uniregistry to Dynadot. The reason as we all know is that Uniregistry is shutting down pretty soon so it was good for me to slowly but steadily move out my domains. It’s not easy to transfer out 8,000+ domains in […]

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Hi everyone, I always find it happy to share my experiences, no matter how good or bad they’re. You might think why I still find it beneficial is because my fellow domain investors could at least avoid repeating the mistake I made. So today I sold a domain via Sedo for $988 whereas I’ve priced […]

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Hello everyone, Many people called and messaged me to check my wellbeing since I’m in Turkey and there were multiple earthquakes several days ago. I’m safe along with my family. So thank you for your concern and taking your valuable time and getting in touch with me. On the other hand, it’s very sad to […]

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Hello everyone, This may be good news to some and not so good to others. But since I’m using Afternic landers and already happy with their overall services, I’m happy to see this news for my portfolio because I’ll be paying less commission going forward. Below is the news from GoDaddy I wanted to share […]

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Hello everyone, As of today I’ve just reached the portfolio of 8,000 domains. This is something very special because all of my domains are very selectively acquired with no hand registrations. Today I wanted to share some of the pros and cons of domaining I’ve witnessed and can recall as of now. I’m sure there […]

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Hello everyone, It’s been over a year since I last shared the recent acquisitions post.As always my purpose of sharing anything on this blog has been to make aware, share valuable information and something which could be helpful to my fellow domain investors. The shared acquisitions below can possibly help you to understand what kind of […]

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Hello everyone! It was in July 2020 when I received an offer of $4,000 on BridgeMoney.com (acquired the domain in partnership with Jamie Zoch) which was then revised to $5,750 as the best and final offer.  At that time the BIN was $12,888. I declined. A month later the buyer came up with $9,000. Again the […]

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Hello everyone, I’ve been investing in .CO domains since they were launched in 2010. As of today, I’ve now almost 200 .CO domains and since the launch I’ve had a pretty good success selling domains in this extension. Although the total numbers are pretty less, the sales have always kept me engaged with this extension. […]

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I won a domain from GoDaddy Auctions in March 2019 and somehow forgot to enter into my purchase records. The same day I won another 4 domain auctions which I noted except this one. Since I didn’t note down at my end, I forgot that I should’ve that domain in my account. Because I didn’t add that […]

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Hello everyone, Many are aware of the ex-registrar Pheenix.com which was at one time a good registrar as well as good at catching dropping domains. In 2017, I won a backordered domain TEZ.CO via Pheenix.com for $69 with no other bidders. Last week this domain was sold for BIN price via Sedo.com for $19,888. My […]

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Hello everyone, Like I always share my personal experiences using any domain related products/services, this time I wanted to share about DaaZ. I’ve used their external escrow services for several transactions and overall it’s been a fantastic experience. On every occasion, I was on the buy side. They were super quick in account verification which […]

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Hello everyone, It’s been quite some time since I’ve shared any domain sale so I thought to share it with you all and start this year’s first post with a bang. It was in late December 2021 when I received an offer of $20,000 for one of my domains SMKT.com through Afternic. This domain had […]

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Hello everyone, Today I wanted to share my experience in regards to receiving the best and the worst emails I receive. It’s a bit of fun to share mine and to know from you all as well. So let me start with the best email which is always when a domain is sold through BIN […]

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Hello everyone, I received an inquiry from Lumis.com co-founder Slade for one of my domains AaronWhite.com in April 2021 with an opening offer of $1,000. I quoted $15,888. Before I go into more detail, let me share something interesting. I repriced this domain in March 2021 from $3,988 (according to my Afternic lead report) to […]

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Hello everyone, Some might think I always show the positive sides of Afternic which is not the case because I try to share whatever I experience, no matter good or bad. And today is something I wanted to share. I experienced this month which wasn’t good until I was clarified by my Afternic manager. So […]

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Hi everyone! I’ve had some 3K domains listed with Dan a long time back but never bothered to add the remaining one’s because I’ve never had a sale through them until yesterday. I’ve bought several domains through Dan by private sellers and always had a smooth and overall great experience. But last week I concluded […]

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