One of the most exciting aspects of investing in domain names is when you’re able to get a reply to an email or a phone call from a domain owner that was difficult to reach. Sometimes you need to do more research to contact certain domain name owners, and getting a reply to an offer or inquiry opens the door for a potential acquisition. I think many of the most successful domain investors are good investigators and have a knack for finding and communicating with even the most “hidden” domain name owners.

If you found it difficult to get in touch with the owner of a domain name, chances are good that others did as well. If that’s the case, it is very possible that the domain owner has not fielded many (or any) inquiries or offers in a long time. Your offer or inquiry may make the domain owner aware that his or her asset has value, and if that is the case, the owner may seek a public sale to get the most money for the domain name.

On occasion,

When I read Ron Jackson’s weekly sale report, I see at least one or two domain names that sold at a price I would classify as a great deal, and occasionally, I see a name that I wish I had bought for that price. When I see those types of deals come across the wire, my immediate thought is usually something like “shoot, that buyer got a great deal. I wish I had known about it.”

I want to share three tips on how you (and I) can reduce the number of times this happens and score good deals. They may be common sense to some of us, but a reminder is always good because great deals happen on a weekly basis, and being proactive about finding them is what is needed in order to score these deals on our own.