Comments on: Company Tries To Sell Me A Pending Delete!

By: Diegoop

Diegoop — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:52:57 +0000

I’ve got the same mail, offering me the .com where I own the .net, just to bother, I asked for info. The price depends on how much times per seccond they will try to register it, after expiration.

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:02:58 +0000

I’ve been getting this e-mail as well for a domain where I own the .info version. I should thank them for the reminder about watching the domain. But I would never let them buy it for me instead of going after it myself. I can see how this would easily “fool” someone who don’t even know the word domaining!

By: pier0

pier0 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:51:24 +0000

Leonard is right. I’ve received quite a few of these emails myself recently and I was able to buy 3 interesting domains for the reg fee as soon as they were deleted. Thanks John Timmers

By: Leonard Britt

Leonard Britt — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:03:56 +0000

I love these sort of emails as I have captured some nice .COMs reg fee due to the alerts. One would think they would check to see if you are a small business with fewer than ten domains. Any registrant with hundreds of domains is likely a domainer.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:53:42 +0000

Good heads up … I get emails from that same company from time-to-time. Since they gave me notice that the DotCom name version of my name was coming up – I had the DotNet (thanks InTrust!), I was able to catch the name as it dropped! But I agree … that practice do seem to be a bit unethical.

By: Ms Domainer

Ms Domainer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:32:12 +0000

Hmm…

It’s a Privacy protected domain.

Could the domain, now in pending delete, have been owned by InTrust Domains, who may be making a last-ditch attempt to sell before the domain goes to auction?

I’m not clear if the company can still retrieve the domain (at a penalty) during the 5-day pending delete stage.

But if the company is just hoping to catch it and then sell it to you, then that’s pretty strange and a lot icky.

I once had someone who tried to sell me a domain (for over $500.00) that was available for hand reg (which I did). I thought about thanking him, but decided that if he wanted to act a free go-between, then I was cool with that.

By: Nameclerk

Nameclerk — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:32:09 +0000

There basically pre-qualifying expiring domains to see which ones they can flip and then only purchase the domains that received interest. It’s sort of a gray area in my opinion and would never work on a domain investor like yourself. The emails might be considered SPAM as well.