Commercial Registrant – Internet Marketing & Domain Names

The method below is for informational purposes only. Contact end users at your own risk. While in 99.9% of the cases this actions could only benefit you, there is a slight chance that contacting an end user will result in a reverse highjack attempt with the excuse that trying to sell them a domain shows bad faith on your behalf (trying to make profit on their trademark). There have been known cases where companies have an XYZ trademark and went after the owner of the domain XYZ.com to get it through legal venues.

Step 1:

Use zfbot.com to find a list of domains that start with your LLL combination. Get the list of the com/net/org domains that start with that letter combination.

Step 2:

Scan them using Domain Research Tool for Alexa Rank and check the sites of the domains that have at least some traffic (if a site has at least some traffic, it will have at least some Alexa rank). Besides the sites that get traffic, browse through the list and copy the domains that seem like they could belong to a company.

Step 3:

Find even more end users. Search for the LLL combination in all major search engines and copy the sites that you think could be interested in purchasing your domain name.

Check wikipedia and other abbreviation sites to see if your LLL combination stands for something, and then search for those keywords in all major search engines. In some cases, you can find many more end users who would be interested in your domain.

Search in all search engines for people advertising on your LLL combination or other keywords that the LLL combo might stand for. The advertisers who pay search engines to show ads to people who search for these keywords are very likely to be interested in purchasing your domain. Imporant note: If you are outside US and you want to sell an LLL.com domain, you would want to use a US proxy to access and search through google or any other SE. A good free proxy service is worldproxy202.com. Same stands if you are trying to sell an LLL.ccTLD. Try to search for keywords through a proxy of the country your ccTLD represents. This way you will get more prospects who are advertising on that terms.

Search for the LLL combo or the keywords that it might stand for using the inlink function in google. For example use this query to find websites that contain the combination XYZ in their URL:

inlink:XYZ – this will show you all sites that contain XYZ somewhere in their URL. e.g: http://www.comapnysite.com/products/XYZ

Using this method you might find a couple or end users more to add to your contact list.

Step 4:

Write an email with a sales pitch, price your domains right and personalize each email before you send it. Make sure that you send it to a decision maker, not to some support email. The support staff will most likely delete if without forwarding it to his manager. Find the decision maker by browsing around the site, very often companies have contact info on the managers in their about section. If you cannot find a contact on the site, get the email from the domain’s whois info. It is better to email there instead of support, chances are that the person administrating the domain names will be either a decision maker.

Step 5:

Rinse, repeat

I hope at least some of you found this post helpful. Your comments are always welcome.

Petros