A few years ago, someone made an offer on one of my domain names, and I counter offered trying to get a better price. I don’t recall if the person replied to my counter offer or not, but I followed up within a day or two to let them know I reconsidered and would accept their offer. The person told me their offer was no longer valid.

I was pretty upset, and at the time, I thought they had done something wrong. After speaking with a couple of colleagues, I then understood that what they did was completely legitimate, and in making my counter offer, I effectively rejected their offer.

With domain names or anything else, if you make a counter offer, you are

I like to share a variety of ways you may be able to find out who is inquiring about your domain names. This surely isn’t foolproof, but it’s one way you might be able to get a bit more intelligence on who is trying to buy one of your domain names.

More often than not, I find that buyers are fairly honest about who they are. They might not list their full information in their signature, but many who inquire use their real email address. Since many don’t list their full name or other identifying information, I’ve found it can be helpful if you search Google for the first part of their email address and see if you can connect the dots. For instance, if

After I complete the sale of a domain name to an end user buyer, I try to find similar domain names for sale, in an effort to close additional deals with the buyer. I am especially keen to do this when I’ve had multiple offers and significant interest on a domain name from several end user prospects.

Let’s say I sold CollegeApartments.com to an end user buyer. I would do some research to try and find similar domain names that might be for sale. I would search Google and the soon to be killed off Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find terms that are similar to “college apartments.”

This research would probably lead me to