Hmm.

At the end of last week, I bought a couple of domains as a potential future business venture, and to be honest, I was a little surprised they were still available.

Anyhow, as I'm not using them right now, I decided to park them with sedoparking.

Today, I receive an email inquiry as follows:

Hello' date='

What is the price of your domain?

We are very interested in it. Good domains are wise investment in the

future. We are in real estate business. Our company is interested in

easy-to-remember domain names.

If you have other domains for sale feel free to send your list.

Looking forward to do business with you.

Regards,

Fred Bloggs

CEO

JPS Online Real Estate LLC

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So, my guess is this is just a "scam", or rather they reckon my domain has a catchy name and would like to buy it for say, £100 and then straight away put it back for sale at £10,000.

So should I be interested, and is this a genuine real-deal offer, or is just testing the water for people who might sell it on becaue "it's no longer worth it to them", and then someone else makes a mint on their back...

I guess it's the latter, but I'm not a domain name broker, so just curious

Thoughts?

TIA

The text used seems a bit wooden and 'spam-ish' to me Xav :rubchin:

As ever it's what they're worth to you and whether they might be worth more than that to you in the future, for whatever you might have had in mind for them

Steve

Yeah, I know Steve.

Frankly, I don't really want to let go of it, although that may sound stupid because I'm not using it and there's no guarantee I ever will.

If they were to offer me £100,000 for it, my arm could be twisted

Sounds a bit spammish to me.

If his name is Fred Bloggs I'd be very suspicious :rotz:

LOL. I changed his name to Fred Bloggs for anonymity

But, if he's the CEO of the company, and it was a real genuine request, I thought the wording would have been slightly more personalised, or less "spammish". If I were in his position, I'd be sure that any templated email sounded a tiny bit thought after and not just generic that says "I'm an automated message" all over it...

Don't go there, when I did some work years ago with an ISP I remember seeing people do things like this, fail to pay and effectively have stolen the domain name.

Yup, once you reply they'll say they'll only offer the price their chosen domain appraisal service - which they own

out of curiosity, what are they?

They will possibly be a small "company" that is set up purely for the purposes of either buying domains very cheap and selling them on at a large profit, or acquiring domains through more dubious routes and then selling them on at a huge profit.

As above really - don't go there. Leave it well alone. There are some people who try to do what I did below:

I tried to buy www.thatmusicsite.com and thatmusicsite.co.uk :: Main Page (Which had already been taken) I was gutted so got in contact with the owners. One wanted silly money the other wanted to keep it on.

I hate it as both sites are pointless. It was just one minor set back when making my sites. It's just a shame I'm registered under the company name that features within the site.

However, It seems like they are just going to say offer you a 'fixed rate' then sell it for more or create an amazing advertising page. I get many offers for my sites - It's odd really as it means nothing to them.

Thanks for the advice, guys. I didn't reply to his email, but haven't received a chaser email either, so guess they're just trying it on and not *really* interested, i.e. already have a use for it...