gentlekeny:
Among the 101 tips for new domainers is having a professional email.

Using names like: SexyCynthia247 @ Gmail.com or other stuffs that are not branded or portrays you as a domainer is minus in your outboundings.

This is one of my emails: Domainsales@usa.com

You grab the message now.

This could be one of the reasons why you're not taken seriously.

Thanks for the tip!

I guess that meant you send all emails (including follow-ups) manually, right?

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Congrats,what's your portfolio size now

Thanks, bruh.

I honestly don't keep tabs on portfolio size. But I think it's currently between 500 and 600, judging by domain counts at different registrars. That number includes all extensions and domains that have expired/in redemption period.

I can say portfolio size doesn't matter much, though. It's about quality and grace. I have seen people with significantly lower portfolio sizes making more regular or high-figure sales. God has been good all the same!

Second-Quarter Sales (First to Last)

Austin//Art//Therapy (in king) | $588 (inbound) | DAN (via Reseller Network) | ED | ~2 months

Home//Renovation//Miami (in king) | $250 (outbound counter-offer) | DAN | ED | ~2 & half months

Online//Couples//Counselor (in king) | $75 (outbound counter-offer ) | Afternic | ED | 5+ months

Midwest//Foot//And//Ankle (in king) | $399 (outbound/inbound) | DAN (via Reseller Network) | ED | ~3 months

Gainesville//Tow (in king) | $250 (outbound counter-offer) | DAN | ED | 2 & half months

Yard//Art//Landscaping (in king) | $350 (outbound/inbound) | DAN (via Reseller Network) | ED | 3+ months

Atlanta//Transmission (in king) | $150 (inbound) | Afternic | ED | 16 months

The "counselor" sale is my second-lowest so far; the lowest was $69 back around when I started making sales. I did a one-day discount price of $100. The one person who responded later in the day offered $75 and I accepted, provided they paid within a limited time. When I looked at the search stat file weeks later, I felt I greatly undersold. But it's still a gain, so I move.

The Atlanta sale was a curious one. When I saw the Afternic email, I was so happy. But when I saw the sale price, the happiness reduced. I had that domain priced at $495 and pointed to DAN! Initially, I couldn't remember how the price was set to $150 at Afternic; even when I offered a discount during outbound, it was $299. I later found out that I had reduced the price along with those of some other domains that would be due for renewal by February; forgot to change it there after the renewal. I had to quickly go and check my Afternic portfolio after the sale and couldn't find any other domain priced so low. The buyer was lucky. 🤨 To cap it all, I have not received the payout 20 days after!

That Atlanta sale was the only one I had in June.

Glory to God! More wins for all of us in Jesus name.

chicfarmer, thanks for the Porkbun coupons you shared the other time. Every single one worked!

Without those codes, I had no reason to register any new domains.

Bea1234:


Ok boss. But I mean how do I remove/stop it from resending over and over again.. it keeps resending automatically

AFAIK there's nothing you can do about those failure delivery emails. You will keep receiving them daily until the hours indicated fully elapsed.

I usually set a filter to have those emails sent to the bin folder automatically. I check the bin folder, as necessary, to see what's there.

Gpexchange:
Sales Report

Incip.et,com
Ht-3 months
Sp-3000$
Bought from gd auction only bidder for 25$.(was playing with fire... Huge domain bot fit don enter me wey poor to compete...It could have made it to closeouts at 5$ but that 5 day wait I didn't want to do it....



Mhmm am trying to make my posts as short as possible but for some reason it go still long wahala.. :-

Congrats on another big sale I can only dream of...at least for now.

Abeg continue with the long posts. These things often happen when you are trying to paint a more vivid picture. I enjoyed them.

Manamps:

EdmontonMoldRemoval 599 usd

Congrats on the sales!

I found some of the sold domains interesting, especially this one. A name focused mainly at a location in Canada!

I have never managed to sell what I might consider better domain names to businesses in Canada - not one, even for 99 bucks! And to think that this name seems available in the .ca extension. Wow, God is wonderful!

More success!

chicfarmer:

Yes, separately. Try it, they will all go through. I have been able to use three so far because of limited funds though.

Wow, that's interesting! Thanks for the feedback.

I wasn't planning to register any new names, but this could change my mind.

chicfarmer:

Thank you.

Plus you can also buy for $5.99 on same Porkburn with the following promo codes:
NOTAROBOT - 1 name
VIKAS - 1 name
LARAVEL24 - 1 name
GENERATIONTECH24- 1 name
CRAYLORMADE - 1 name
MRKEHEL- 3 names.

Thanks for sharing!

A quick question: were you able to use each one of these separately?

I think I used to get message along the line that I could not use coupon codes anymore because I have used something similar (same price). Because of this, I have only managed to get that extra $1 discount once if I remember correctly.

Elzak:
Hello bosses in the house.

I want to register a name and I'm planning to use namecheap. Doesn't appear to me that namecheap is frequently used here. Please, is it advisable? Thanks.

People use it here. But wait until you need to renew the domain name, if you wish to, the price fit make you think twice.

Recently, I had to do what I don't usually like doing: I transferred the remaining four domains I had registered for 7.16 each at NC to Dynadot. The renewal price was a major turn-off.

ajimo54:


My rams are sold for 150k. Why are Nigerians not farming?

So you haven't been hearing all the news about insecurity? A country where politicians seems to be behind all or, at least, most of this.

Many people are willing to go into farming, even if as a hobby - myself inclusive!

Jimneighbour:
Please who can help me buy some domain names with PayPal?

I guess you receive payments via Grey. Don't you reserve some funds there? If you do, simply link your card to PayPal. I think it should work.

PS: Congratulations on your sales. Wish you more!

edogu:

What is your preferred company for backordering?

I have not successfully backordered a domain name so far. The closest I came to doing that was around 2021/2022 when I tried Sav, but I found they're somewhat useless - I manually registered available domains faster than they could attempt it.

By the way, as a follow-up to my previous post, I found the domains I made reference to were caught at Network Solutions, Domain.com, and NameBright. The NetSol one was listed for 1975 at DAN and the NameBright one was at HugeDomains for 5595 - locksmith names for cities of about 60,000 people.

Bea1234, I see you have gotten your answer.

In other news, the way people are backordering expired domains right now ehn no be small thing!

So I noticed that I haven't been able to get any decent domains for registration on the drop for days now. Today, I decided to try check Pending Delete list for the first time in a long while. Every single domain I added to watchlist was caught!

The interesting thing was that some of the saved domains weren't that exciting. They included two geo locksmith names and a "generic" dog domain. I had high hopes on similar domains (some with other taken extensions) months ago, registered them, and they're all still in my portfolio without any notable interest. So na that kain name I wan dey backorder?

My people, let's backorder with sense o. If na names wey go sell for high hundreds or thousands I for hear. Well, I still be learner sha.

Jimneighbour:
This is why you should get a professional email, it doesn't still mean that you won't make sales with free email.... just to be on safe side, some endusers won't even bother telling you this

If you meant a self-hosted email address, I'd say that's no guarantee of anything based on personal experience.

I have used several of those over the years. Last year, I even paid for DreamHost unlimited hosting plan partly so I could test emailing with custom email addresses for some domains I had for sale. None sold.

Prior to last year, I also observed at a time that after sending a few sets of emails, Gmail started marking the associated domain name (not just the email address) as spam. You can figure the rest.

Even many of these end-users use Gmail addresses for their businesses. Anyone who's ready to buy will do so without all this stress. You may provide them a proof of ownership - maybe a screenshot showing the particular domain name at your registrar.

Bea1234:
Treat as urgent please!!!

My bosses in the house I sold my first domain on Dan and have already transferred the domain to them. So they're asking me to update my payout method.


Please which option has the highest payout at the moment.. payoneer, crypto or wire? This is my first sale.

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Congrats on your sale! I wish you more.

Out of those options, I only use Payoneer. But I would suggest you use Grey for easy conversion. I still convert my Payoneer funds through Grey.

Jimneighbour:
Hi all, please is advisable I call an end user with Nigeria number? I have sent mail twice but he hasn't viewed it

AwesomeDuru Omini247 U1

Sorry, I am not an expert in this aspect. But if I were to call, I wouldn't use a Nigerian number - except I don't have an alternative.

Omini247:


"Weight loss" remains a good niche once the spam score is game.

That's interesting. I occasionally came across some that seemed decent but I didn't bother to even have a closer look.

petux:


stop spamming, no one is buying those craps

This one is even a bit more tolerable.

There are those who would send you a DM (if they have a means for doing so) and offer you some domains you probably won't register for hundreds of dollars while knowing you're also a domainer.

They'd claim you could easily make 10x from those domains. I'd be like (to myself): why do you want to sell these to me then?

AwesomeDuru:
Sold!
ApexWeightLoss for $2000
More sales to us ✅

Congrats, bro!
Saw this on X yesterday and was somewhat like: "weight loss?"

TOKUNBOGOODIES:
Nigeria does not have that money...

Nigeria has the money. It's just that those in political offices take the bulk of it, doing little or nothing.

But do I support an increase in minimum wage? No! That would only worsen the present inflation for everyone and maybe even drag USD rate beyond N2,000.

Kotla:
My Ist sale HT 2 years EXD picked
Thank you boss Iyke Learner47 Sapiosexuality and others

Congrats on your sale, bro! I wish you many more.

This is interesting. So dentists still buy domain names? I had some great city+dentist/dentistry names that never sold, including for fairly big cities. I even renewed a city+ST+dentist domain name twice years ago - it never sold.

narite:

Someone listed the name for 280 dollar yet name failed to sell. Someone else came along and up the price by more than X10 and rest is history.

You could argue grace, luck and all that but one should never be afraid to follow their GUTS. What will be will be.

Congrats gpexchange. Your sales are inspiring.

I agree completely! But the issue actually is: where are the guts?

The problem is just knowing what to price high and what to keep low or moderate. If only I knew that, I would have the guts. I assume you'd agree with me that such high prices aren't feasible in all industries (or so I think).

You know sometimes I actually wonder to myself how I am going to make high-figure sales when I don't even price my domains high. If only online domain valuators were at least 60% dependable, this might have been easier.

Gpexchange:
Sales Report

Shrlock//com
SP/BIN- 3500$ me and dis pricing sha
HT-5 months
SV- Afternic

Details
Got it from ed deleted list for 1.99$ at one .com this bad company they took an entire 3 weeks to reg this for me omo along with like 7 others,,, imagine if someone else regged it in those 3 weeks... Transferring out was easy than i expected lol i expected to have to visit their office for it
the domain had 0 views this month

This one was actually for sale for 280$ in 2022 and also last year by someone else before they dropped it ..... I saw it but didn't pick it i just kept it in my email like others cause that period i was so broke and didn't want to reg anything unless am sure of it.... weeks after ...one.com start promo so i rush do some of course they gave me headache i just stopped and gave up but they reg am eventually after weeks and cancelled others nonsense.......

Sherlock is the correct spelling most of us already know who sherlock holmes is so thats why i picked and other variations like sherlock,sherlok,sherloq,shrlok,shrloc sherlocc were all regged and not for sale.....i dont like picking names that are for sale before but i started making exceptions for names i thought were good cause i saw some people keep selling names that have been for sale for long before...


Wishing us more sales ....

Congrats on the sale, bro!

I honestly wonder how you get sales at those your prices. This one's even abbreviated!

I been wan copy you with like 10 of my "best" names but I no get the liver.

Greenbuoy:
Generic, as in an actual word. Could be any language.

Multi-word cases are what I speak to here.

A different story if it was Jarus.com she pitched to him.

Or are you able to mention like ten sales you've heard of, where the domains are brandable + suffix such as "associates," "group," "partners" or the likes?

To clarify:

"Brandables" in this case are pure ones (invented) like jarus, xerox and the likes.

So what should the person that owns jarus.com do? It's the owner of that name that's in a better position to complain and that's even if the name is trademarked IMHO.

Greenbuoy:
Hate to admit it, but he's absolutely right. "Jarus" is not a generic word.

"Generic word," what's that? Do brandables fall into that generic category?

tranxo:

Yea. GTB. In my case - Euro.


Well done and congrats to all sellers and those keeping the thread alive. Been away from the domain scene for a while now.

How do you guys currently purchase/pay for domain names?

Thanks, boss. Been a while.

For your question, I use Grey card or PayPal/Payoneer card.

Please has anyone here carried out a domiciliary account transaction recently in Nigeria?

I was wondering if the banks still pay out in foreign currency.

dayo2hot:
Porkburn back with $6.99 promo. Take advantage guys

Thanks for sharing. That means na to port from Sav for now. I fit take the extra $0.96 take chop.

Domainer1999:
Thanks for this.
I've had many interactions with him before he changed his WhatsApp number.

He's ready to buy God.com for $1, he'll devalue your asset and throw you peanuts.

He's a foolish buyer unlike others that buy your name at standard retail market price.

That's my personal experience with him, not once or twice, no beefing whatsoever.

Although, once you finally agree to sell your name at any price, thats your problem, but he can always do better.

Can you share link to the thread?

While I don't think his act is necessarily fair (if true), I can't blame him. Those who sold to him at lower fee should blame themselves - after all, they accepted the offer.

In this world, we are responsible for our actions. And people are not always fair.

Rather than sell a .com for less than $10 at this stage, I'd let the name expire or give it out.

edogu:

He was a domain hustler like us until his breakthrough came when he sold symphony//com for 375,000 usd. His life changed entirely after that major sale.

But did you really think he got that name for our usual reg. fee? Hustler different from hustler o.

trafficpools:
There is levels to this thing ooo, that guy call Abdulbasit or something is a whale in this industry. All sold in one month

Also read this last week or so via a link shared on X. I think he mentioned his portfolio size in that blog post. He's a whale indeed but there are even bigger whales in this thing.

bxcode:

$1 = #1,244 as at May 8th.

Very low. Were you not allowed to withdraw from your GTB account in dollar?