How I made 20x ROI in 11 days selling a domain name

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Nice post OP. You inspired me to try this method and gave me a couple ideas. Just a few questions. How do you transfer the domain to the purchaser? Do you use a 3rd party middle man or what?

Also would you be willing to share you cold email sales pitch?
 
SureShot said:
Nice post OP. You inspired me to try this method and gave me a couple ideas. Just a few questions. How do you transfer the domain to the purchaser? Do you use a 3rd party middle man or what?
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SureShot said:
Also would you be willing to share you cold email sales pitch?
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I let 3rd party deal with the transfer and payment.

I won’t share it word by word but as I mentioned in the thread before, I keep it short and simple.
 
A faster method with domain name selling:

1. Find people who are named David Smith
2. Buy Davidsmith.com
3. Contact all these people named David Smith, tell them you are also named David Smith and you don't need the domain anymore.
4. Let them make you an offer for the domain
5. Bank and repeat with Jack Smith
 
Tipitip said:
I let 3rd party deal with the transfer and payment.

I won’t share it word by word but as I mentioned in the thread before, I keep it short and simple.
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Ok thanks for the info. Do you ever get stuck with domains? Let’s say you find a guy in Canada with “www.JoesElectric.com” so you buy JoesElectric.ca and try to sell it to him. But if he’s not interested you end up losing the cost of the domain.
Or do you go for more generic domains? Like instead you buy TorontoElectricians.com so if Joe isn’t interested, maybe bob from Toronto would be?
 
Ive recently purchased a domain for 3.5k and that is one of my most cheapest domains ive purchased for this year. I dont flip domains but i do build on em and then sell them when they are ready as a turn key solution to a selective industry.
 
nice little side hustle idea, thanks for the share @Tipitip

have you ever thought about just renting the domain name out, rather than selling it?

I was thinking something like,
first years rental £250,
if they re-rent it again the following year offer them 30% off the price.£175

If they don't want to rent again you can offer to sell it to them at double the price, £500. this way they can own it themselves.

or simply re-rent it on to their competitors and recycle and repeat.
 
tweak420 said:
nice little side hustle idea, thanks for the share @Tipitip

have you ever thought about just renting the domain name out, rather than selling it?

I was thinking something like,
first years rental £250,
if they re-rent it again the following year offer them 30% off the price.£175

If they don't want to rent again you can offer to sell it to them at double the price, £500. this way they can own it themselves.

or simply re-rent it on to their competitors and recycle and repeat.
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I never rented out a domain before, but I know you can do that using platforms like DAN. But I don’t think anyone would want to rent a low priced domain ($250-1000). I might be wrong.

I rather put an affordable BIN price and try to catch emotional and impulsive purchases.
 
tweak420 said:
nice little side hustle idea, thanks for the share @Tipitip

have you ever thought about just renting the domain name out, rather than selling it?

I was thinking something like,
first years rental £250,
if they re-rent it again the following year offer them 30% off the price.£175

If they don't want to rent again you can offer to sell it to them at double the price, £500. this way they can own it themselves.

or simply re-rent it on to their competitors and recycle and repeat.
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i am doing that as a Rank & Rent, which require some time and work but once your site is rankink locally i contact some vendors and offer the leads that my site is getting if we close the deal i update the contact details and that's it.
 
Quite smart but very hard scale

How do you explain the value of the domain/metrics to layman for example to storm construction site owner? They would hardly know expired domains or DA PA metrics ?
 
German Rodriguez said:
i am doing that as a Rank & Rent, which require some time and work but once your site is rankink locally i contact some vendors and offer the leads that my site is getting if we close the deal i update the contact details and that's it.
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nice :)
im currently doing the same. I just built 4 sites for my portfolio and brought the domains (emergency electricians in city)

im also setting up GMB listings for each name+city. my next step is to do some SEO to get some traffic & leads.

i'll then contact electricians in each city and offer to either rent out the site or sell the leads for a commission.
 
SureShot said:
Ok thanks for the info. Do you ever get stuck with domains? Let’s say you find a guy in Canada with “www.JoesElectric.com” so you buy JoesElectric.ca and try to sell it to him. But if he’s not interested you end up losing the cost of the domain.
Or do you go for more generic domains? Like instead you buy TorontoElectricians.com so if Joe isn’t interested, maybe bob from Toronto would be?
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I had domains I bought thinking I would be able to resell, however I would later expire them because I wouldn’t think the same after a year or later. I guess it’s part of the game, you learn with trial and error. As years pass you become more selective picking out the right domain.

If you want to increase your chances of selling, hunt generic names. They’re safer in my opinion.


German Rodriguez said:
i am doing that as a Rank & Rent, which require some time and work but once your site is rankink locally i contact some vendors and offer the leads that my site is getting if we close the deal i update the contact details and that's it.
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I really like the idea of rank&rent.
Do you make it a one page website or do you create a blog/news website and add articles?

Jimoz said:
Quite smart but very hard scale

How do you explain the value of the domain/metrics to layman for example to storm construction site owner? They would hardly know expired domains or DA PA metrics ?
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I don’t, they purchase it for the name.
 
Tipitip said:
I had domains I bought thinking I would be able to resell, however I would later expire them because I wouldn’t think the same after a year or later. I guess it’s part of the game, you learn with trial and error. As years pass you become more selective picking out the right domain.

If you want to increase your chances of selling, hunt generic names. They’re safer in my opinion.




I really like the idea of rank&rent.
Do you make it a one page website or do you create a blog/news website and add articles?


I don’t, they purchase it for the name.
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what i do is
* with the domian i reach the best niche
* i create the page with service information in gneral using the best keywords
* i create the GMB and try to use as many links in to the new site
* after a few weeks i create an email with images from day 0 and other images with data from day XXX
* .....
 
German Rodriguez said:
what i do is
* with the domian i reach the best niche
* i create the page with service information in gneral using the best keywords
* i create the GMB and try to use as many links in to the new site
* after a few weeks i create an email with images from day 0 and other images with data from day XXX
* .....
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How long does this process take until you start receiving leads?
Do you mainly receive leads as a phone call or email?
If you receive phone calls, do you buy a different phone for each website and GMB?

Thank you for the insight, I would love to hear more about it!
 
Tipitip said:
I wanted to share how I made 20x ROI in 11 days just by selling a domain name with email marketing. Hopefully it can be motivational for others out there who are trying to flip or sell domains too.

1) Found a domain that was recently dropped.

2) Checked and researched Google to check potential buyers. It was over more than 20 companies.

3) Purchased the domain name for $10.88 from a registrar.

4) Gathered emails of potential buyers by entering their website or a Google search.

5) Prepared a short and directly on point email template. No more than 3-5 sentences.

6) Emailed potential buyers. Some responded back interested and asking for the price.

7) After sending emails to potential buyers for 4-5 days I started receiving replies. Two companies were interested to purchase the name. After some back and forth replies and negotiations one of them agreed to purchase the domain for $250.

8) 11 days from the registration date I ended up selling the name for $250.


Yes, maybe it could’ve sold for more if I was more patient. But I’m happy with my return and directly settled for such amount. If I can do it, so can you!
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I'm just getting into email marketing myself for generating traffic. Thanks for sharing. Great work.
 
Tipitip said:
How long does this process take until you start receiving leads?
Do you mainly receive leads as a phone call or email?
If you receive phone calls, do you buy a different phone for each website and GMB?

Thank you for the insight, I would love to hear more about it!
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i try to keep it simple, once is ranking (take some weeks) with data analytics i just create an email and send that information to possible businesses that may be interested on those rankings.

regarding phone calls and emails
emails i forward those requests to a business for free, that calls their attention

phonecalls i take the call, take a note and i send that info to a business for free

seems a lot of works and sometimes is but i have been able to rank and rent with local business

is a nice business and since there are so many expired domains is easy to rank and to offer
 
That's inspiring... although... at the scale you are talking about, it sounds sort-of lucky.
About half my business is scraping b2b leads, so I've got millions of contacts.
Maybe I should try selling domains, like this... that would be a dream job... LoL

I'm gonna have to think about this, because it sounds promising!
Thanks for the share! :o
 
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