I was going through my server to delete some of the landing pages and was curious about a few domains to see what has happened to them after they were no longer in my possession. Some of them I had regrets and should have kept longer(I dropped some during my break from domaining), some were successful sales that I have had over the past year or so, and some I should have never bought at all.
There was one sale in particular that stuck out to me because I had mispriced it on Sedo(a two word hyphenated domain), so I decided to take a look what happened after the buyer was smart enough to snag it. It originally had a website built up and everything within a day of purchase, so it was nice to see that it was being used.
Fast forward until today and noticed the website was down. When I originally was typing the domain name in the browser, I noticed it had the domain name + reviews in the search bar, so I had the chance to dive a bit to see how it was doing before the website. Turns out on Trustpilot and Sitejabber, the reviews were pretty horrid. Just taking the money from their customers and disappearing. It was a good sale though for me, but it made me really think about letting my domains have a lease-to-own option in the case that something like this would happen.
So, it makes me wonder NP's take on this. If you saw a domain name that was used for a scam, but it still had potential for another end user, would you buy it again if it dropped? Or would you pass over it if you saw it again? And seeing this has happened, do you feel confident in leasing to own your domain names in the case that you would have someone that could try to run a scam?
Disclaimer: The domain hasn't dropped, but I've got it saved on my watchlist just in case.
There was one sale in particular that stuck out to me because I had mispriced it on Sedo(a two word hyphenated domain), so I decided to take a look what happened after the buyer was smart enough to snag it. It originally had a website built up and everything within a day of purchase, so it was nice to see that it was being used.
Fast forward until today and noticed the website was down. When I originally was typing the domain name in the browser, I noticed it had the domain name + reviews in the search bar, so I had the chance to dive a bit to see how it was doing before the website. Turns out on Trustpilot and Sitejabber, the reviews were pretty horrid. Just taking the money from their customers and disappearing. It was a good sale though for me, but it made me really think about letting my domains have a lease-to-own option in the case that something like this would happen.
So, it makes me wonder NP's take on this. If you saw a domain name that was used for a scam, but it still had potential for another end user, would you buy it again if it dropped? Or would you pass over it if you saw it again? And seeing this has happened, do you feel confident in leasing to own your domain names in the case that you would have someone that could try to run a scam?
Disclaimer: The domain hasn't dropped, but I've got it saved on my watchlist just in case.
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