Unexpected Call
lurksteraz on July 17th, 2007
I received an unexpected call last night. But a good one.
I answer the phone and on the other line is someone who found my number from a domain WHOIS site. First thing I thought of was ‘great, I’m infringing on a business trademark or something’. Well, this guy was actually interested in purchasing one of my oldest domain names. It’s been registered since 2001. One of the first domains I ever registered and that I’ve held onto for all of these years.
I told him I was unsure of a price and had to do some research. He decided to throw out a number and I thought it was good($1000). I wanted to check with a few friends who deal in domain resale and a couple said I should hold onto it and some others said I should sell. So, I decided to sell.
I’ve never sold any domains. So I am a little unsure of the process. I was able to find escrow.com and they only seem to charge about 3.25%. Not bad, I figure that since he contacted me, I should be a little skeptical on the sale. I think escrow.com may be the place to go through as far as protection for us both. He gets the domain and I get paid.
Has anyone else had this similar situation? If so did you use any type of escrow service?
August 1st, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Grats on the domain name sale!
I noticed you didn’t mention it in the post so I won’t here either, but it was a decent domain, glad to see it’s going to see some use. What about the other 100+ domains you have tucked away..? heh
What about posting them somewhere on your site so visitors/readers can browse the selection and make offers. Or are you hording the rest for your next big affiliate idea..?