I am not very active on LinkedIn, but I do use it to share articles, read articles, and see who is looking at my profile. While checking out LinkedIn this morning, I saw that a prospective buyer for one of my domain names had viewed my profile, and it gave me an idea for my “for sale” landing pages: add a link to my LinkedIn profile.

When a logged in LinkedIn user clicks on a profile, the person whose profile was clicked can see that their profile was viewed by that person (unless they are a premium member who blocks this feature). If a prospect would visit one of my landing pages and clicks on my LinkedIn profile link, this will allow me to get an idea of who is poking around my domain name for sale landing pages. This information may be more helpful than the IP and other anonymous tracking information that Google Analytics and StatCounter share.

There are two reasons why this might be beneficial.

When trying to sell a domain name, I believe the most important thing is getting in touch with the right person at a particular company. If you call or email the wrong person at a company, you might not receive a reply when that company might be willing to spend the most money of any prospect for a domain name.

I’ve seen and used a few lead generation tools. It seems that most are able to provide a domain name seller with the Whois contact email address for potential prospects. Some tools are better at finding targeted prospects than others, although I would argue that doing this by hand is better than by using a tool.

That being said, the Whois email address is

I am of the opinion that if you have to explain what your domain name means or why the domain name means something, you probably should not use outbound marketing to sell the domain name.

It seems like every day, I receive at least one email from someone trying to sell me their domain name(s). As a domain investor, I understand why these people are reaching out to me, but I feel badly when I receive a large list of domain names that make no sense to me and don’t really seem to be worth anything unless someone wants to use one as a brand.

Some people seem to believe that if they explain to me what their domain name means, I will be more apt to buy it. Unfortunately, the opposite is more likely to happen. If someone has to explain the meaning of a domain name to me, I will have less interest because I don’t really want to acquire a domain name that is inherently confusing.

There are plenty of brands that use