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slimjosh43:
Greetings ooo

Sold T/a/s/t/y// T/a/n/g/o .com

Sales price: $4250
Hold Time: 2 years

$1500 offer came and I countered with 4000 and Afternic broker closed it at $4250.

Thank Jehovah

Massive congrats!

I tap. I pray I will be able to price domain names this high someday and still make sale.

RESHARPENED:
It does.

By carbrandexpert.com, I assume you mean something like Tesl.aExp.ert.com, Toy.otaExp.ert.com?

If that's the case, then the domain names are obvious trademark infringements. These types of domain names are risky investments.

It'd be super easy for the trademark owners to take them from you. Plus, savvy business owners will avoid them like the plague so it would be difficult for you to sell.

Maybe Afternic is trying to crack down on names like that because they've been receiving a lot of complaints.

I think Sedo does the same thing.

That said, I don't think they have the right to judge on trademark issues. But you must be regging blatant trademarks for 5 of your names to be flagged in such a short period of time.

Really? I don't quite agree, but I respect your opinion.

I haven't been registering a lot of domain names compared to the past and that makes things even more suspicious. And yes, I know about trademarks and I try to avoid them unless it's not very apparent. I never had any issues related to that until last year.

By the way, two of these domains were already listed for months before I had to relist them because of unintentional deletion or Fast Transfer activation.

You didn't comment about the "AustinChevrolet" example - a type of domain name that's common among US auto dealerships. Also, would you say mercedesspecialistbucks (co.uk), mercedesexpert (king), and mercedesexpertpompano (king) are also infringing trademarks? These are established, high-ranking websites.

Or could you or anyone else also tell how "scholastics" is a trademark term?

Is anyone else here also experiencing what I have been experiencing in recent months at Afternic? More and more domain names are being rejected because of the so-called trademark reason.

I had never experienced anything of this sort at Afternic until towards the end of 2022. Since then, around five domains have been rejected for this reason.

Yet, no further explanation would be provided when requested. I mean how do you say something like "(car brand) expert," for example, flouts trademark?

I have seen people sell city+car brand (e.g. AustinChevrolet, not a real sale) without any issue. So what are they claiming?

jamih:
Get leads from Google,Gmap,Bing, Letsextract.
Send mail manually within the 7 month hold time with 8 follow ups

What I didn't get was how to send 800+ emails manually with eight follow-ups. Or was that the total after including all follow-ups?

jamih:
Alhamdulillah
Eatery .info, sold for 99 inbound through dan distribution network(i.e afternic).
Done outbound on it b4, sent 800+ mails, including 8 follow ups.
purchased : 1.95
hold time : 7 months

Congrats, man!

800+ emails, how una take dey do this thing?

RESHARPENED:
Dynadot is running the following .com promo:

Registration - $8.75 until FEB 14.
Transfer - $8.95 until FEB 28.
(Use code COMSWITCH for transfer)

To think I screenshot this your post for a transfer I was planning but forgot when the time came.

GRACEGLORY:
fundamental analysis... I don't like to follow the crowd, as the crowd are good at falling into ditches, so, I look for paths with less crowd that would later be crowded.

Hm, the only thing I can pick from that is fundamental analysis. Please continue to share tips, maybe I can catch some.

BetterLaif:
Pls am trying to register a domain on dynadot but don't seem to use any of the advertised payment platforms, any advice on how I make payment?

You would need to still use any of the options. Can't think of any other right now.

You may try one of those websites that issue virtual cards at the black market rate. I read that Grey was offering such cards a while ago, so you may check them out.

tayorh:
Do I need to hold a domain for 60 days before it can be on afternic fast transfer, all my domains are not on fast transfer

Yes. Some registrars will not send the opt-in email until after 60 days. Even if they did and you opted in, Afternic will not recognise that until after 60 days. This is because of the standard transfer lock after initial registration.

Salesbay:
I tried outbounding with my professional email through Titan/hostinger mail but most of the messages are going to spam. Abeg those using custom mails what is they way out.

Personal opinion: stick to Gmail for your outbound.

Just ensure that you are not sending too many emails and that you are receiving emails, especially replies, as well. GMass warming tool used to help with this, but sadly Google has forced it to be shut down.

Custom email addresses are easily penalised for spam. The associated domain (not just an email address) would be marked as spam and all emails from it are more likely to land in spam folders. Such email addresses may be better suited when you are contacting limited leads with them and strictly manually.

The Gmail domain cannot be easily penalised because it's not restricted to an entity or person.

GRACEGLORY:
Free money I gave

Please could you share what you saw before making that call back in January? I wasn't here then. I would like to learn. Thanks!

omonnakoda:
If you feel insulted work on your self esteem no one can "condescend" you without your cooperation
On topic, be factual ,leave sentiment aside.
I did not address my remarks to you. You quoted me and I responded.
If you are too fragile then stay on your lane

I see that you're better ignored.

How old are you? It's childish to get insulting without being insulted. I hope you get to learn that someday. Peace.

omonnakoda:
General talk.
What has that got to do specifically with this episode
We do not know whether this branch has claimed NOT to have new notes. Or do you have information we don't have?

It is foolish to say things one does not know without facts
You sound like person who runs to bring petrol and tyres when you hear some one shout THIEF

What is required is thinking and asking questions not ignorant reactions

I only wrote what I have heard and experienced. You didn't need to sound insulting and condescending.

All banks I have been to wouldn't have the sort of difficulty I witnessed if any of them had this sort of money and made it available. I mean they were paying no more than N20,000 (that high in only one instance and supposedly) and as low as N1,000. Yet, it didn't take long before the money got exhausted.

This is not to say that I stand with the CBN - not a fan. I am only saying multiple parties, including banks (as in this case), market people and POS agents, are complicit.

omonnakoda:
What does UNCOVERED mean?
Is the money supposed to be in a bakery if not in a bank?
Think
Use your head before reacting?
Did they print the money in the bank?
Dead body uncovered in a grave
Where will they uncover dead body?? police station?

Seems you're not aware that many banks claim to have no money. Even those who said they have claimed to have like N6 million or less.

I heard a Stanbic IBTC branch manager telling customers last Friday that the branch got only N1 million.

Malory:
This goes to show that Nigerians are their own problem. This can never happen under Obi.

Keep hoping. So he would change 200m people overnight? To think that LP doesn't have strong structures at the state level in most cases.

Before you start thinking something else, PO is the only person of the three leading candidates that I would expect any reasonable, sensible, upright, and unselfish person to vote for. I am one, even though that's coming from me.

MostImportant:
Who unleashed them? So many expired geo domains on ED tonight. Go grab some if you have money.

Seems you didn't check in the days before then. I think yesterday's counts were like the lowest I noticed in the last week.

Over the past week or so, I have been noticing drops like 2x or more of what used to be. Yet, it hasn't translated to more "gems."

SanThiago:
Asking a rookie question boss, apologies.

If transfer from Epik to GoDaddy using Auth code, do I pay for the transfer? Is it like reregistering it afresh on GoDaddy?

Normally, you don't pay to transfer out, except you're dealing with a crazy registrar.

It's the owner of the receiving account (at GoDaddy in this case) that will pay. And that money will be used to extend the expiration date of the domain by one year.

BOOKWORMLUX:
Create new email addresses

When you create a new email address, sign it up to about 5 different newsletters

Let it receive emails for a day or two

You can then start using it to outbound

You can even send up to 100 mails per day with the new email address

This guy! Sense no go kill una.

Esiman:
I have an email for each pen name or brand. You can include it if you want.

Thanks!

byrron:
I don't include my contact on any of my published books, however, I insert my website link that contains all my other published books with a clickable link to the sales page on Amazon for each of the books.

Just gave you an exclusive pro tip meant for my students alone.

Cheers.

Thanks, boss.

Good morning. I am wondering about something and would like self-publishers in the house to chip in.

Did you include your contact information in the books that have good results? Is it advisable to not include it?

I read that one can publish using a pen name and I was wondering how that would work.

cc eliok, byrron, emceecee, pennywise2, Esiman, ANYONE

Borntosmoke:

I can now confirm that this method works. Thanks for sharing!

However, for convenience, I would advise anyone that has money to just pay.

symbuul:
Guys how can I request for a refund on a domain I purchased yesterday on sav? Abeg make una help. On their site, they said one should delete the domain and get a refund if it meets their refund policy. I dey fear to delete o.
Anybody don experience am?

In case of next time, simply delete to get your refund.

But please note that you can only get refunds for 10% of your registrations in a month - a minimum of one - from what I remember. Your money is a gone if you delete more than that and I learnt that the hard way.

buzritchy:
Sales Alert !!!
Domain name : Vegas // Headshots // dot // com
Sales venue: Dan Hold Time: <2months
Lead Source: Gmap
More golden sales to everyone.

Congrats! I tap in Jesus's name.

Brandable people in the house, please could you let me know what to do about the email from BrandBucket to review/adjust listing prices?

I have only two accepted listings there. According to their email, I haven't updated prices in more than 90 days. They have been sending me this email weekly to review prices.

I don't want to increase prices so that won't block sales and reductions are out of the question.

Must I change prices periodically? Please guide me.

webizone:
Here you go:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eurozone-cyprus-anger-idUKBRE92F07720130316

Thanks, boss!

Every possibility has to be considered at this point.

webizone:
That's the essence of going cashless. They can wake up tomorrow and declare that you now own only 50% of money in your account. If you doubt it can happen, go and ask Cyprus.

Sir, please could you provide a link where I can read about the bold? I tried searching but couldn't find something useful.

CalabarPikin:
This is getting real

I wish they can address the unnecessary deductions by first bank especially

Oh, yeah. If wishes were horses... Nothing would be done.

That's how Wema Alat deducted SMS charges from my balance in advance (through 25 December) barely days after deducting same amount for November. Na account closure go end that matter.

This country is just messed up. Big time!

EtimAbasiama:
When I get money na so I go dey behave..

See this man. You dey whine me ni? You wey I know your moniker wella when it comes to sales. Abi no be you be Cyril's guy again?

Sapiosexuality:
Welcome. It seems you mentioned he that must not be named n a m e c h e a p.

You might not believe, but I actually thought that was probably why you spelt it that way in your response after I noticed the ban.

Well, the renewal cost was just a part of the reasons I thought Dynadot may be better. The other was the WHOIS check info.

Besides, I thought it would be rather unfair on my part to be getting cheap first-year prices (below registry price) at one registrar and moving elsewhere if and when I want to renew. Meh, I know.

U1:
I would advise anyone who can afford the extra 1-2 bucks it would cost to register a domain name on Dynadot (compared to Sav) to do so, at least for now. Those 1-2 bucks might be the difference between losing a potential sale.

Sapiosexuality and HIScraziness, the attached was my reply to your responses to the above post last Sunday. I got banned for replying until Wednesday night, even mailing the mods made no difference.

I just thought I should still share because I copied the post and later saved. Who knows it might be useful to someone.

I would advise anyone who can afford the extra 1-2 bucks it would cost to register a domain name on Dynadot (compared to Sav) to do so, at least for now. Those 1-2 bucks might be the difference between losing a potential sale.

In other news, is there anyone here that provides contact or business names along with scraped email addresses, especially from GMaps? I found only email addresses were provided by those I tried in the past, but I don't usually work with just that.