I’ve worked with a variety of domain brokers on outbound and inbound domain sales, and I have experienced different levels of communication with these domain brokers and brokerages. I think the domain owner should let the domain broker know how much communication is desired since different brokers tend to have different communication preferences.

When I have engaged a domain broker for an inbound purchase inquiry, especially for a domain name that receives quite a bit of regular interest, I appreciate it when my domain broker follows up with me regularly. I like to know what the buyer is thinking and where the buyer is at in terms of interest or taking action. Even if there is no chance of a deal (ie buyer willing to pay $10k but my price is $100k), I want to be updated with the status. Perhaps I can offer more flexibility in pricing or terms, and knowing what the buyer is thinking is helpful. It’s also helpful to know a status when holding negotiations with more than one party.

When I have engaged a domain broker for outbound sales, I

Recently, I was contacted by a prospective buyer who wants to purchase one of my domain names. During the course of our discussion, I learned that he owns a toll-free 800 phone number with my keyword, and he would like to own my keyword .com domain name to go along with his phone number. This gave me an idea.

If you own a short keyword domain name, perhaps you can find a buyer by seeing who owns the corresponding toll free phone numbers. You can search 800, 877, 888…etc phone numbers online or simply by calling those companies directly and getting contact information for the respective companies. You may even find some local companies who bought keyword phone numbers in their area code.

Some of the phone numbers

I like to do my own research to find prospective buyers for some of my domain names, and I thought of a way that might be useful to find new leads. Typically, I use Google.com to search for companies that use the keywords of the domain name I am selling. I thought perhaps using a ccTLD where Google operates could bring additional prospective buyer leads.

Google operates many localized search engines using its ccTLD domain names. Google.co.uk, Google.com.do, Google.ca, and Google.ie are all examples of Google’s search engines that  are geared towards local searches in those particular regions.  For instance, if you look up London dog walkers  on Google.co.uk, you are likely to find more local results than if you would do the same search on Google.com.

I’ll give you an example of how this might work using