Find a Buyer By Checking Toll Free Numbers

Elliot Silver
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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

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Find a Domain Buyer via Google ccTLD

Elliot Silver
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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

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Flippa to Host “Exclusive One Day Masterclass”

Elliot Silver
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I want to share the content of an email I just received from Flippa announcing “an Exclusive One Day Masterclass.” The class promises to give students “access to never-before-seen data, tips and insights into how you can make more money from the web in 2015!” The class will be held at Flippa’s San Francisco office on Saturday, November 22, 2014 from 8:30 – 6:00pm.

Flippa currently has a limited time “early bird” offer price of $99 per ticket, and the EventBrite listing says there will only be 30 tickets sold at this price. The regular rate is listed at $499 for this class, which sounds a bit expensive to me.

According to the email, here are some of the topics that will be taught in this class:

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Ebola.com Domain Name Sold for Over $200k

Elliot Silver
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A week ago, many mainstream news articles were quite critical of Blue String Ventures and its owners for trying to sell the Ebola.com domain name.  According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, a company called Weed Growth Fund, Inc. (formerly Ovation Research, Inc.) has acquired the Ebola.com domain name “for $50,000 cash and 19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc. common stock owned by the Company.”

Cannabis Sativa, Inc. trades under the CBDS ticker symbol, and at the time of publication, it currently trades at $8.50/share. Based on the price of $8.50/share, the total value of the stock right now is $163,132, making this deal valued at over $200,000. According to the sale agreement  also filed with the SEC, the seller needs to hold on to the shares of CBDS stock for a minimum of 6 months per SEC rules.

Assuming a deal for the domain name is worth

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Flippa Announces “Website Classifieds”

Elliot Silver
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Flippa is known as a domain name and website marketplace where people can buy and sell domain names via auction. Flippa boasts that there are over 500,000 buyers, and it seems like there are often some pretty solid domain names listed for sale. This morning, the company announced a new offering called “website classifieds,” which allows owners to list their domain names for sale without the auction.

Similar to the current set-up, a domain owner can create a classified listing on Flippa with the same information they currently use for an auction listing. Instead of having an auction that ends on a set date, the listing will stay active for as long as the domain owner would like, up to one year. The domain name or website sale listing “will be included in

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Tibanne Co., Ltd. Selling Some Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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A few months ago, Heritage Auctions announced that it would be auctioning the Bitcoins.com domain name, which is owned by Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange parent company Tibanne. Shortly after the news, the Wall Street Journal reported that a “U.S. court order temporarily blocked the company that operated the exchange from selling assets,” and the auction didn’t happen.  I visited the Bitcoins.com domain name today, and I saw a message that says the following:

“BITCOINS.COM is for sale
Please contact us if you would like to purchase BITCOINS.COM.

This domain was created on Thu 30 Mar 2000 10:48:38 PM JST and can be bought from us.”

On the contact page, prospective buyers can fill out a form to inquire about the domain name. In addition, there is a mailing address for prospective buyers to send their inquiry via postal mail. Postal inquiries are directed to Tibanne Co.,Ltd. in Japan.

On the Bitcoins.com homepage, the company lists a variety of

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