How Whoisology Helps Me

Elliot Silver
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When I receive an inquiry, either via email or Domain Name Sales landing page, I do some due diligence on the prospective buyer. Most of the time, I have a limited amount of information to use to do my due diligence. The one thing I almost always have is an accurate email address. This is usually enough to learn about the prospect.

The Domain Name Sales platform integrates quite a few tools that can be used to learn about a buyer. You can easily search Facebook, LinkedIn, or  Google to find a match for the email address. This can be useful in determining who the buyer is, but I like to use Whoisology to glean additional information about the prospective buyer.

When I receive an inquiry, I like to

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GraphLab Rebrands as Dato

Elliot Silver
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TechCrunch published an article today covering the news that “Seattle-based GraphLab has raised $18.5 million in new funding and picked up a new name, Dato.” Smartly, the company is now using Dato.com for its new website.

When I read the TechCrunch article, the Dato branding and Dato.com domain name rang a bell to me. I searched through my email archive, and I saw that John Daly’s NameConnect domain name sales newsletter had Dato.com listed for sale for $9,000 on December 3, 2014.  Interestingly, according to NameBio, Dato.com was sold in May of 2008 for

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Sell a Domain Name via PR Firm

Elliot Silver
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When you are looking to sell a domain name to a large company, it can be difficult to get in touch with the right decision maker. In fact, it can even be difficult to determine who the decision maker actually is!

An article in the Boston Globe might shed some light on how to sell a domain name to a large company, and I want to share the insight I gleaned from the article in the hopes that it helps you.

If you aren’t aware, Market Basket is a major grocery store chain in the northeast. The company was founded by the Demoulas brothers, and the chain grew into one of the largest grocery stores in the region. Because the store had Demoulas in its name for quite some time, the Demoulas brand is still well known in this area. Unfortunately, there was considerable family discord reported, and the company that is known as Market Basket was in the news quite a bit last year as a result of ownership issues. Long story short, Arthur T. Demoulas now has control of the company.

The Boston Globe published an article about the Demoulas.com domain name and how it was owned by someone that is not related to the Demoulas family or the grocery chain. To me, the most relevant and helpful part of the article is this:

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Domain Sales Q&A With Jeff Gabriel

Elliot Silver
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The two most common  requests I receive are for brokerage services and for domain sales help. For the first type of request, I typically suggest that people have a look at a list of domain brokers I compiled. For the second, I usually say “sorry, I can’t help you” or refer them to an article I wrote on my blog about the specific topic.

If you are attending NamesCon in a couple of weeks and you have questions about selling domain names, there is a session that you won’t want to miss. Jeff Gabriel, Vice President of Sales at Domain Name Sales, will be speaking on a panel called “Eliminating Roadblocks to selling YOUR domains.” The format of this panel is a question and answer session where attendees can ask Jeff questions about selling domain names, and he will share his advice with people in the audience.

Here’s the description of the panel session:

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PR: Bingo.com Sale Reported

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In a deal that was announced via press release just before the end of  2014, the Bingo.com domain name and accompanying online  community  were sold by a company called Bingo.com, Ltd.    to a company called Unibet Group plc. “for total consideration of $8,000,000.“    Bingo.com, Ltd. is a OTC traded company with a ticker symbol  BNGOF.

The press release stated that “[t]he Company is receiving cash consideration of $2,000,000 and redemption of the 15,000,000 common shares of the Company, which are held by Unibet, at a price of $0.40 per share.”

The press release shared some information about the current state of the business and some of the rationale  for the sale:

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NewYear.com For Sale at DNS

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In December of 2012, NYE.com sold at NameJet for $175,000. Prior to the sale, I discussed the domain name in a contest post and speculated that it would be great for a new years eve website, perhaps to sell party tickets or restaurant reservations. As you can see, NYE.com has since been developed into a new years eve focused website.

I was checking out a variety of new years eve related domain names and websites, and I came across one that was a bit surprising to me. If you visit NewYear.com, you are taken directly to a DomainNameSales.com inquiry page. Despite the fact that it’s the busiest time of the year for this domain name and related searches, NewYear.com is foregoing domain parking and sending visitors straight to a page to let them know it may be for sale.

NewYear.com is a domain name owned

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