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Re-Purchase Your Sold Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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There have been a few times where I sold domain names for less than I wanted to sell them. The majority were sold as parts of bulk deals that wouldn’t happen without those specific domain names, and I wanted to close the deals at the time, so I included them. I can’t say that I’ve regretted any deals done in the past, but there are a few domain names I’d love to have back in my portfolio.

With the economy performing poorly and many domain owners looking to raise capital (who isn’t?), now might be a good time to repurchase some of these domain names, perhaps at an even better price than you sold them.

The first thing to do is to check to see if the owner has spent time or money on developing a website on the domain name. If not, you may be in luck, especially since the domain name probably isn’t earning as much revenue as it once was. Send the domain owner an email asking if he would consider re-selling it, and make him an offer.

There will be a fine line between lowballing and trying to get your domain name back for its adjusted market value. Just be cautious, as you don’t want to lowball one of your former clients, as this might lead to future lowballing on his part. I’ve recently bought back a few names that I had sold within the last few years, and now might be a good time for you to do the same.

Health/Auto/Car Insurance Domains

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In light of the recent insurance domain name sales that ranged anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars (including some of my own last week for less), I am listing some other health insurance, auto insurance, and car insurance domain names for sale.   They are all registered at Moniker for a quick and easy push.

The cities are all medium to large, each name is $500, or the entire set can be purchased for just $3,600.   See below for city information.

AtlanticCityHealthInsurance.com
FairfaxHealthInsurance.com
HiltonHeadHealthInsurance.com
HobokenHealthInsurance.com
JupiterHealthInsurance.com
LawrenceHealthInsurance.com
LynnHealthInsurance.com
QuincyHealthInsurance.com
RockvilleHealthInsurance.com
TrentonHealthInsurance.com

JupiterAutoInsurance.com
LawrenceAutoInsurance.com

AtlanticCityCarInsurance.com

Population info for cities listed:

Atlantic City, NJ – 35,770 (268,000 if you count the metro area)
Fairfax, VA – 21,498 (1,015,302 in Fairfax county)
Hilton Head, NC – 33,838
Hoboken, NJ – 38,577
Jupiter, FL – 39,328
Lawrence, MA – 72, 043 and Lawrence, KS – 90,520
Lynn, MA – 87,122
Quincy, MA – 91,622
Rockville, MD – 60,734
Trenton, NJ – 82,804

Reach Out & Ask a Domain Investor

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As the saying goes, “ask and you shall receive,” can be applied towards speaking with entrepreneurs, including domain investors. Have you ever wondered how Richard Douglas was building some of the features on Oakville.com? Have you seen Adam Strong’s name in the DNN masthead and wondered, what the heck does Adam do other than write news articles for Domain Name News? Want to know how Warren Royal became the king of bobblehead dolls?

Fortunately, these questions can easily be emailed directly to the source of your answers.

One of the greatest things about the domain industry is that just about every person is accessible, and most are happy to share information with others. There are obviously questions that would be off limits, but you wouldn’t go asking these questions of someone at a private party either. If you tell the person who you are, what you are up to, and ask nicely, you will probably receive a thoughtful response.

The Whois directory is good for more than just domain look ups. It can also be used to find out the company name and contact information for people in the domain business. Check out their corporate websites (if applicable) and send an email if you have questions. Don’t expect to receive an answer, and don’t be rude if you don’t get one either. Although many people like to remain private or are too busy to give a thoughtful response, there are others who will happily answer questions.

Just one piece of advice – from someone who has made the mistake of doing this and someone who is frequently on the receiving end of this – don’t start off a conversation by trying to sell something.

Snapnames Job & Career Domain Auction

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Snapnames is currently running their September Showcase Auction, and this month’s theme is job and career domain names. Many of the domain names up for auction have no reserves, and others have very low reserve prices. Below are my favorite domain names in auction with the current price. The auction ends on Friday.

BreakfastBar.com – Reserve: $1,001 – $2,500

HorrorStories.com – Reserve: $5,001 – $10,000

HuntingKnife.com – Reserve: $2,501 – $5,000

LawyerListings.com – Reserve: None

MontrealVacations.com – Bid: $840

TemporaryWorkers.com – Reserve: $2,501 – $5,000

WineSale.com – Reserve: $1,001 – $2,500

WordPress & .ME Partner on WP.me

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I don’t own a single .ME ccTLD domain name, and I have no plans to buy one any time in the near future, but I thought the following press release issued by the .ME Registry was interesting. They are partnering with WordPress to offer a URL shortener on the WP.me domain name.

In my opinion, this is a great marketing idea for the registry, because a domain extension’s usage in the market place is what makes consumers aware of its existence, leading consumers to purchase these domain names, which in turn adds value to owners of premium domain names. The more value they have, the more investors and consumers will want to purchase them – making it a win/win for all parties.

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More than 225,000 bloggers will now be directing readers to their latest posts using a .Me domain extension, thanks to a newly announced partnership between the .ME Registry and popular blog creation site, WordPress.com. The agreement led to the creation of WP.Me – the world`s first two-letter .ME domain. WordPress is now offering the domain as a URL shortener…allowing its hosted bloggers to provide abbreviated links to their posts, and making it much easier to promote those links on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

“These short links are about 70 percent smaller than the permalinks for a given post,” says Matt Mullenweg, a co-founder of WordPress. “Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most
effective URLs available today.”

According to Mullenweg, WP.Me is different from other URL shorteners in a variety of ways:

* Every blog and post on WordPress.com will now have a WP.Me URL.
* They only work with WordPress.com-hosted URLs.
* The links are permanent and will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
* WP.Me is spam-free because WordPress constantly monitors and removes spam from WP.com.

“Dot-ME embraces and celebrates this kind of innovation,” says Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. “In the short time dot-ME has existed, our domain extension has broken many barriers to become so much more than just another ccTLD. WordPress saw the potential of dot-ME and we applaud them for it.”

Visit WordPress.com to learn more about how to get your very own WP.Me URL.

Domain Spam Making the Rounds

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I received two emails like this in the past couple of days for geodomain names, and a friend also forwarded me the same email for a completely different domain name. Because the emails were nearly identical, and because the domain names in question were very different, I believe this is a domain spam email making the rounds.

While I don’t think it’s any type of scam, I have heard that people will send out thousands of automated emails based on certain domain attributes, and when someone responds, the emailer will then decide whether he is interested in replying or not based on the domain name.

Here’s the email in the event you receive the exact same one.

Hello there,

I am contacting you to offer you some cold, hard cash. Unfortunately in this case you have not won the lottery, nor do I need you to help me wire a ridiculous amount of money.

I am contacting you in relation to the domain name XXXXXXX.com which I am aware that you own.

I was just curious as to whether you would be prepared to sell the rights of ownership to this name to me? If so, I how much would you want?

Payment would happily be rendered through any medium you feel safe utilizing.

I would greatly appreciate a response in a timely manner.

Yours

James Watson

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