I’m a big fan of Efty. It’s a great platform and for the price its a great solution to sell names. But man do I get a ton of inquiries that are complete garbage. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even get excited when I get an inquiry anymore. And these are opted in inquiries. Here are examples of what all the inquiries for Seed.cc and Hosta.net look like
Offer
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Message
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Offer
6
Message
Hi
Offer
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Message
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Offer
1
Message
Good to go
Offer
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Message
Quisiera la mochila puma
Offer
1
Message
I Love You
Offer
1
Message
1
Offer
7996438
Message
Pk mais photo sur sur internet
I know that Seed.cc is really close to Seedr.com which is a file sharing site so I get why it gets the inquires. I really should have a parking page instead of a for sale lander. Not sure what’s going on for Hosta.net. And really none of this bothers me. What bothers me is when people start a BIN on escrow.com and then never agree to terms. That has happened quite a few times and happened yesterday. I thought I sold a 4L.com for $8K when someone started an Escrow.com transaction. I received the email and started counting my money. Of course they never agreed to their side and its definitely not going to happen. Nothing lost but my time but they got me emotionally involved and that pisses me off. And of note. Every single one of these crazy offers and fake BIN are from overseas. Not saying there aren’t some great overseas buyers. Just saying that my hopes of getting a deal done change based on what country the other party is from. Hear are today’s names. Make sure to click on the names to see the current price and to help DSAD keep on keeping on
Domain of the Day: Flowery.com This one could go garden flowers or canna
Quote of the Day: “Learn from the mistakes of other. you can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves“-Chanakya
Namejet, Sedo, and other Names Up for Auction
FamousResorts.com Take a vacation to some of the most famous resorts in the world
JustGold.com Getting close to the reserve I thought wouldn’t be hit
PHMA.com Love these letters. Half a million Google results for this acronym
SUV.org Ford thinks these are the only thing worth investing in
SeedSmart.com Vegetable and plant seeds have always been a good Internet business. Canna seeds only boosted it
SexyFox.com 21 years old which makes it a legal sexy fox
DairyTwist.com Upgrade name for dozens of companies that share the name
HomeSoft.com Sounds like tech for the home
Cloomo.com Nice brand that doesn’t mean anything which works when starting a new brand
Centric.com I said this one would easily meet reserve and would sell and looks like we’re getting there
Jelm.com Not a great name but not too bad. I think it’s probably worth $500. Don’t buy it based on my thoughts. Buy it if you like it
Godaddy Domains With Multiple Bids
Embus.com Funny because in the dictionary embus means “To enter a bus” . Probably could be branded non bus related
GardenLook.com Gardening is the world’s biggest hobby
Nurbo.com Nerd Turbo
VaporCraft.com Artisan vaping
Vajar.com Means something in several different languages
SuperEmployee.com How to make a super employee or find one
GigaPlan.com Giga makes it sound more bigger
DigiProperties.com Great name for someone in our industry
VeganSuite.com Veganism deserves its own suite
Godaddy Domains With One Or No Bids
BotLab.com Godaddy considers this the most valuable name on the list
YourCBD.com CBD names have really been crushing it the last 6 months
YogaLand.com It’s wear I buy my Yoga pants and special mat
Yapt.com Pronounceable 4L.coms have proven to be a pretty good investment
Yorz.com Ditto
LuxuryTickets.com Luxury seats for luxury prices
Leadwork.com 19 years old. I saw leads like leads for work but the results are most for lead like in a pencil lead
DigitalFoto.com Billions of results for the term. A bit generic but someone can figure out how to monetize it
ProxyServer.org Millions use them every day to hide
Jintie.com Chinese name. I think it means allowance
The Rest of the Godaddy Names With Bids
QEIP.com has one of the best domain sales newsletters in the biz. Also taking listings of high quality
35dtea.com
444951.com
53pw.com
69937.com
85495.com
866233.com
88gw.com
addurlpro.com
argias.com
AsiaIng.com
asjiaren.com
BDolan.net
BestSubmitDirectory.com
BeyondPerfection.com
BluewaterBarAndGrill.com
BodyApplicatorWraps.com
BrandMyMail.com
BrocadeNashville.com
BroSome.com
BuiltBySo.com
CNGems.com
CodeLove.com
ConsumerEagle.com
Cpaga.com
DHTGroup.com
Doint.com
DoShoe.com
ds9994.com
ds9995.com
EdwardsForNH.com
ExistingBullionOrders.com
FCDesign.com
Febmax.com
Filination.com
Fradco.com
Fund-Raising-Ideas-Center.com
GeorgiaASA.com
Grzzly.com
Handutuan.com
HelloSunyo.com
Hiyaa.com
HybridMarijuana.com
IndividualizedHealthcare.com
iPlayos.com
JoyLah.com
Kelikeli.com
Lamold.com
ManticoreTechnology.com
MaydayNetwork.com
MMD2017.com
MoserForCongress.com
n8m.com
Nimawudi.com
OCMold.com
PensacolaVoice.com
PowerFunnel.com
Profilactic.com
PsychSplash.com
Qiseyl.com
RanDallsIslandGolfCenter.com
Reredeai.com
RoanokeRailCam.com
Ruikangbao.com
Sciastro.net
Scxiaoye.com
SDMold.com
SharpNow.com
Shepers.com
ShunFengFan.com
SkyGarten.com
TheBluesJeanBar.com
TheManhattanInn.com
TotallyLoveIt.com
UglyHill.com
ultimibarbarorum.com
UrbanCrushWine.net
Vuedesisles.com
VWMedia.com
WanderingTheWorldBelow.com
Woodwork.net
WorldNews247.com
Yacool.com
Yayaxy.com
Yazhengjd.com
Yueyu5.com
Zofer.com
I get a bunch of fake inquiries too. When I see a “confirmed inquiry” email come thru I always guess if it’s real or fake. I now don’t get too excited until I actually read the inquiry to see what it contains.
Hi Shane, thanks for sharing.
As for the inquiries, we’ve gotten pretty good at blocking anything that is outright spam these days (we even created a folder in your account for anything that is labeled as such so you can still check those inquiries that we filtered out). From the examples you’re sharing it seems we’re dealing with confused visitors that are expecting some sort of service or product on the domain name they are visiting. Most of us have a domain name or two like that in the portfolio. Often there was a developed site on it in a previous life, or as you already pointed out, the domain name is very similar to an established website out there that gets lots of traffic.
I sometimes get inquiries in Scan.co from people who have bought gaming software via Scan.co.uk – asking me about their order.
There are a couple of things we suggest.
1. If the domain name gets good traffic (you can check this with the Google Analytics integration we offer) you might consider putting up a parked page showing ads and then link the “for-sale” banner back to your Efty inquiry page. This way, only interested buyers for the domain name should show up in your inquiries. We actually build an entire feature around this strategy which you can read about here: https://blog.efty.com/2018/07/24/pay-per-click-parking-efty-heres-the-magic-link/
2. Consider switching to a different For-Sale landing page template. The Nobo theme, for example, forces visitors to input an offer amount first before it brings up the form. It’s a great way to filter out the “idiots”. Check Scan.co to see this template in action.
As for the deadbeat escrow transaction. This issue is easily solved by switching to our new Escrow Pay integration. This forces buyers to complete the entire signup process and escrow agreement on the Escrow.com website BEFORE the actual escrow is initiated. Here’s the information you need on that: https://blog.efty.com/2018/11/27/escrow-pay-a-slicker-and-more-simple-integration-of-escrow-com-in-efty/
We’ll be sunsetting the old integration soon.
Thanks again for the feedback 🙂
Thanks Doron,
Appreciate the feedback and will certainly do all of the above
I switched to the Uniregistry banners which the customer needs to click first to get to the contact form. Had to switch anyway as having it land on the contact form results in a blank page. The adblockers do this for some reason and the % individuals using them is growing (and will be 100% sooner or later) so this needs to be tested for. Bodis have this problem too. Inquiries on 300 names went from 1/day to 1 or 2/week, but hardly any confused or spam inquiries anymore.
The industry needs much better simple For Sale Landers.
Nothing fancy. Nothing that needs Q & A on how to use.
The old GoDaddy Instapages were AWESOME all around (simplicity, search results, etc.)
I think I sold almost all my names in the past through that.