₦airaland Forum

ajimo54:
My rams are sold for 150k. Why are Nigerians not farming?

So you haven't been hearing all the news about insecurity? A country where politicians seems to be behind all or, at least, most of this.

Many people are willing to go into farming, even if as a hobby - myself inclusive!

Jimneighbour:
Please who can help me buy some domain names with PayPal?

I guess you receive payments via Grey. Don't you reserve some funds there? If you do, simply link your card to PayPal. I think it should work.

PS: Congratulations on your sales. Wish you more!

edogu:
What is your preferred company for backordering?

I have not successfully backordered a domain name so far. The closest I came to doing that was around 2021/2022 when I tried Sav, but I found they're somewhat useless - I manually registered available domains faster than they could attempt it.

By the way, as a follow-up to my previous post, I found the domains I made reference to were caught at Network Solutions, Domain.com, and NameBright. The NetSol one was listed for 1975 at DAN and the NameBright one was at HugeDomains for 5595 - locksmith names for cities of about 60,000 people.

Bea1234, I see you have gotten your answer.

In other news, the way people are backordering expired domains right now ehn no be small thing!

So I noticed that I haven't been able to get any decent domains for registration on the drop for days now. Today, I decided to try check Pending Delete list for the first time in a long while. Every single domain I added to watchlist was caught!

The interesting thing was that some of the saved domains weren't that exciting. They included two geo locksmith names and a "generic" dog domain. I had high hopes on similar domains (some with other taken extensions) months ago, registered them, and they're all still in my portfolio without any notable interest. So na that kain name I wan dey backorder?

My people, let's backorder with sense o. If na names wey go sell for high hundreds or thousands I for hear. Well, I still be learner sha.

Jimneighbour:
This is why you should get a professional email, it doesn't still mean that you won't make sales with free email.... just to be on safe side, some endusers won't even bother telling you this

If you meant a self-hosted email address, I'd say that's no guarantee of anything based on personal experience.

I have used several of those over the years. Last year, I even paid for DreamHost unlimited hosting plan partly so I could test emailing with custom email addresses for some domains I had for sale. None sold.

Prior to last year, I also observed at a time that after sending a few sets of emails, Gmail started marking the associated domain name (not just the email address) as spam. You can figure the rest.

Even many of these end-users use Gmail addresses for their businesses. Anyone who's ready to buy will do so without all this stress. You may provide them a proof of ownership - maybe a screenshot showing the particular domain name at your registrar.

Bea1234:
Treat as urgent please!!!

My bosses in the house I sold my first domain on Dan and have already transferred the domain to them. So they're asking me to update my payout method.


Please which option has the highest payout at the moment.. payoneer, crypto or wire? This is my first sale.

sapiosexuality awesomeduru erjo U1 iykepromotions James39 jamescool2 trafficpools and other bosses in the house

Congrats on your sale! I wish you more.

Out of those options, I only use Payoneer. But I would suggest you use Grey for easy conversion. I still convert my Payoneer funds through Grey.

Jimneighbour:
Hi all, please is advisable I call an end user with Nigeria number? I have sent mail twice but he hasn't viewed it

AwesomeDuru Omini247 U1

Sorry, I am not an expert in this aspect. But if I were to call, I wouldn't use a Nigerian number - except I don't have an alternative.

Omini247:
"Weight loss" remains a good niche once the spam score is game.

That's interesting. I occasionally came across some that seemed decent but I didn't bother to even have a closer look.

petux:
stop spamming, no one is buying those craps

This one is even a bit more tolerable.

There are those who would send you a DM (if they have a means for doing so) and offer you some domains you probably won't register for hundreds of dollars while knowing you're also a domainer.

They'd claim you could easily make 10x from those domains. I'd be like (to myself): why do you want to sell these to me then?

AwesomeDuru:
Sold!
ApexWeightLoss for $2000
More sales to us ✅

Congrats, bro!
Saw this on X yesterday and was somewhat like: "weight loss?"

TOKUNBOGOODIES:
Nigeria does not have that money...

Nigeria has the money. It's just that those in political offices take the bulk of it, doing little or nothing.

But do I support an increase in minimum wage? No! That would only worsen the present inflation for everyone and maybe even drag USD rate beyond N2,000.

Kotla:
My Ist sale HT 2 years EXD picked
Thank you boss Iyke Learner47 Sapiosexuality and others

Congrats on your sale, bro! I wish you many more.

This is interesting. So dentists still buy domain names? I had some great city+dentist/dentistry names that never sold, including for fairly big cities. I even renewed a city+ST+dentist domain name twice years ago - it never sold.

narite:
Someone listed the name for 280 dollar yet name failed to sell. Someone else came along and up the price by more than X10 and rest is history.

You could argue grace, luck and all that but one should never be afraid to follow their GUTS. What will be will be.

Congrats gpexchange. Your sales are inspiring.

I agree completely! But the issue actually is: where are the guts?

The problem is just knowing what to price high and what to keep low or moderate. If only I knew that, I would have the guts. I assume you'd agree with me that such high prices aren't feasible in all industries (or so I think).

You know sometimes I actually wonder to myself how I am going to make high-figure sales when I don't even price my domains high. If only online domain valuators were at least 60% dependable, this might have been easier.

Gpexchange:
Sales Report

Shrlock//com
SP/BIN- 3500$ me and dis pricing sha
HT-5 months
SV- Afternic

Details
Got it from ed deleted list for 1.99$ at one .com this bad company they took an entire 3 weeks to reg this for me omo along with like 7 others,,, imagine if someone else regged it in those 3 weeks... Transferring out was easy than i expected lol i expected to have to visit their office for it
the domain had 0 views this month

This one was actually for sale for 280$ in 2022 and also last year by someone else before they dropped it ..... I saw it but didn't pick it i just kept it in my email like others cause that period i was so broke and didn't want to reg anything unless am sure of it.... weeks after ...one.com start promo so i rush do some of course they gave me headache i just stopped and gave up but they reg am eventually after weeks and cancelled others nonsense.......

Sherlock is the correct spelling most of us already know who sherlock holmes is so thats why i picked and other variations like sherlock,sherlok,sherloq,shrlok,shrloc sherlocc were all regged and not for sale.....i dont like picking names that are for sale before but i started making exceptions for names i thought were good cause i saw some people keep selling names that have been for sale for long before...


Wishing us more sales ....

Congrats on the sale, bro!

I honestly wonder how you get sales at those your prices. This one's even abbreviated!

I been wan copy you with like 10 of my "best" names but I no get the liver.

Greenbuoy:
Generic, as in an actual word. Could be any language.

Multi-word cases are what I speak to here.

A different story if it was Jarus.com she pitched to him.

Or are you able to mention like ten sales you've heard of, where the domains are brandable + suffix such as "associates," "group," "partners" or the likes?

To clarify:

"Brandables" in this case are pure ones (invented) like jarus, xerox and the likes.

So what should the person that owns jarus.com do? It's the owner of that name that's in a better position to complain and that's even if the name is trademarked IMHO.

Greenbuoy:
Hate to admit it, but he's absolutely right. "Jarus" is not a generic word.

"Generic word," what's that? Do brandables fall into that generic category?

tranxo:
Yea. GTB. In my case - Euro.


Well done and congrats to all sellers and those keeping the thread alive. Been away from the domain scene for a while now.

How do you guys currently purchase/pay for domain names?

Thanks, boss. Been a while.

For your question, I use Grey card or PayPal/Payoneer card.

Please has anyone here carried out a domiciliary account transaction recently in Nigeria?

I was wondering if the banks still pay out in foreign currency.

dayo2hot:
Porkburn back with $6.99 promo. Take advantage guys

Thanks for sharing. That means na to port from Sav for now. I fit take the extra $0.96 take chop.

Domainer1999:
Thanks for this.
I've had many interactions with him before he changed his WhatsApp number.

He's ready to buy God.com for $1, he'll devalue your asset and throw you peanuts.

He's a foolish buyer unlike others that buy your name at standard retail market price.

That's my personal experience with him, not once or twice, no beefing whatsoever.

Although, once you finally agree to sell your name at any price, thats your problem, but he can always do better.

Can you share link to the thread?

While I don't think his act is necessarily fair (if true), I can't blame him. Those who sold to him at lower fee should blame themselves - after all, they accepted the offer.

In this world, we are responsible for our actions. And people are not always fair.

Rather than sell a .com for less than $10 at this stage, I'd let the name expire or give it out.

edogu:
He was a domain hustler like us until his breakthrough came when he sold symphony//com for 375,000 usd. His life changed entirely after that major sale.

But did you really think he got that name for our usual reg. fee? Hustler different from hustler o.

trafficpools:
There is levels to this thing ooo, that guy call Abdulbasit or something is a whale in this industry. All sold in one month

Also read this last week or so via a link shared on X. I think he mentioned his portfolio size in that blog post. He's a whale indeed but there are even bigger whales in this thing.

bxcode:
$1 = #1,244 as at May 8th.

Very low. Were you not allowed to withdraw from your GTB account in dollar?

Learner47:
Spirituality. Certain laws of the universe that govern outcomes.

Person ft outbound tire to the same end users e no sell, him go dash him friend the domain go sell instantly on first outbound. Person ft hold name for 4 years e no sell e go drop am another person go reg am same day sell am. You get!, it is not luck ooo!

All connected to energy, frequency & vibration. Like avoiding certain things (sins) for a period of time to increase ones frequency-energy then plus hardwork to get desired results. Make I no go off topic sha.

Thanks for your response. I think I got the drift.

Learner47:
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration"
**Nikola Tesla**

All the best.

Sorry, off-topic. Could you help to relate this quote in simpler language as regards domaining, please? I'm not sure if I quite understand it well enough.

EAGLE2020:
Bitpay is working fine with Nigerians please

Have you or anyone you know been able to receive money through the service within the past week?

I wasn't disputing whether Nigerians were using it previously. Policies can change at any time.

ProjectsCityNG:
Stop misleading people with half baked information. The best investment is never one self but in " Readily Opportunities" which many times lies outside self.

Your wisdom.

Acquisition of skills and/or knowledge is investment in self. What's better than that?

Many of us have put money into the so-called "readily opportunities" not once, not twice, with nothing but losses of capital to show.

Personally, I don't think I want to involve in any investment that I won't be in firm control of, except we're talking about those run by government or maybe national/multinational companies. I advised the OP based on that.

Sorry, I have no solution for you. I just wanted to remind you that this is Nigeria, where everything goes.

My old price wasn't locked in during the price hike GoTV effected before this one. I contacted support and they didn't do anything about it.

Yet, there are times you don't even get to enjoy the service you paid for. There's even a particular time when channels were scrambled for five days despite having paid for my subscription. Who do one run to for help?

As for your payment that's being denied, I'll just advise you to probably call out GoTV on social media since they're not being reasonable. The payment reflected on their platform for Pete's sake and wasn't reversed to your Opay account.

cjrane:
Just print more naira and buy all the dollars you can find with it.

If there is no more dollars left to buy, then the exchange rate will drop.

Initially, I wanted to ignore your response. But then I thought you might not really know.

What you proposed right there was a major contributor to the problem we're having currently. Buhari's regime reportedly printed a lot of money; the current regime might have also printed more.

I bet you, the bulk of the printed money ended up in the hands of politicians - without doing anything. Normally, money is to be made by producing and selling something.

The inflation you're witnessing in the country usually results when there is too much money in circulation, compared to available goods.

If you print more money (Naira in this case), it doesn't mean more dollar will be available. It would rather increase the dollar rate because more Naira will be "chasing" fewer dollars.

People who need dollar for necessary imports or contracts will not get it, causing supply of goods to drop and increasing prices.

OP, I really don't have an idea to share. I was only curious.

But I'd like to warn you not to give money you cannot afford to lose to anyone in the name of investment. The best investment is in yourself.

You may only use whatever idea or advice you get as leverage.

Learner47:
I tire for this people. Abi is it IP issues. I use Mtn and Airtel.

I wasn't using BitPay payout method - didn't even know it existed until I started seeing complaints recently. The last time I used crypto payout method was a few years ago (2020/2021) before the option was removed for some accounts.

But what I can simply deduce from the attached screenshot is that BitPay has stopped working with people from Nigeria. Forget whatever their support team might claim about the issue being at DAN's end.

iCauseTrouble, I see you.

First, it was Atom. Now, Neutron. I wonder if we should be expecting a change to Electron soon from somewhere.