For the most part, I will return solicitation emails when people ask if I want to buy their domain name(s). While the vast majority aren’t close to being of interest to me (keyword .com domain names are almost exclusively what I buy), I do my best to give a “no thanks” or something along those lines because I think it is courteous.

In addition to these emails, I receive a ton of guest post and SEO pitch emails. I almost never reply to those emails because I have absolutely no interest in working with someone who needs to make these types of unsolicited emails to get business. I don’t want to give someone an opportunity to add me to a “responsive” email list for future solicitations, nor do I want to get another sales pitch.

One thing that irritates me is getting an email like this:

I recently learned about a large company that was re-branding one of its business units. I did some domain research to see if they had acquired a matching domain name, and the domain name is now owned by one of the large brand management and protection firms. I wanted to see if I could learn how it was acquired, and that’s where it got interesting.

A couple of years ago, the domain name was owned by a domain investor. I don’t believe I know the person, but the registrant name makes it pretty clear that it was owned by a domain investor. It’s also parked at Internet Traffic still, so that makes me think the brand management firm hasn’t changed the DNS yet.

In between the domain name being owned by the domain investor and brand management company, there was an interesting registrant.