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My story is the following. I registered a domain many years ago for a blog I made. For 7 years I didn't do anything with the blog and the page was basically dead. I kept the domain until 2023. For health reasons I could not renew it and the registrar sold it. First it was bought by a Chinese company, then it was sold and now it is owned by a company in Eastern Europe that is dedicated to selling domains. And from what I have researched, they have it for sale on their website as well as on godaddy and Sedo in their negociable listings. From what I've researched, the domain doesn't have much value. The only value is for me, because it was a personal project.
It look like they parked the domain with some ads. Looking the whois, I see that the expiration date for the domain is in one week. I wonder if they will renew it. I have never bought domains from companies that are dedicated to negotiating and selling domains. So I have no idea what the process is like to buy from them.
What would be the best approach for my situation? Buying the domain directly from them without intermediaries like godaddy or Sedo or sending them an offer in those websites? Or should I wait to see if they let it expires and then register the domain as usual? How would be the process in each case in term of buying or recover the domain?
It sounds like the domain name is for sale as make offer rather than with a set, buy it now price. Is that correct?
If you have personal contacts with domain name knowledge, I'd get their opinion as to whether or not the name has value. If not, you might want to see if a couple of kind, experienced types here would be OK looking at the name privately to see if they agree with you that the name doesn't have much value.
Unless it is urgent, I don't think that I'd express interest to the seller shortly before expiry. If you are right and the name only really has value to you, they probably haven't seen much interest and could let it expire and drop. Interest could increase the likelihood of renewal.
Not knowing who the seller is I can't say for sure if I'd go direct or through an intermediary such as Sedo or GoDaddy. With GoDaddy and Sedo, you'll have transaction security and maintain anonymity.
It sounds like the domain name is for sale as make offer rather than with a set, buy it now price. Is that correct?
If you have personal contacts with domain name knowledge, I'd get their opinion as to whether or not the name has value. If not, you might want to see if a couple of kind, experienced types here would be OK looking at the name privately to see if they agree with you that the name doesn't have much value.
Unless it is urgent, I don't think that I'd express interest to the seller shortly before expiry. If you are right and the name only really has value to you, they probably haven't seen much interest and could let it expire and drop. Interest could increase the likelihood of renewal.
Not knowing who the seller is I can't say for sure if I'd go direct or through an intermediary such as Sedo or GoDaddy. With GoDaddy and Sedo, you'll have transaction security and maintain anonymity.
Thank you for your response. Yes, this is correct. They are selling the domain via offer. The domain is not listed in any other listing only in the make an offer sale list. They have it like that in godaddy and sedo since almost a year.
I checked the domain in specialized websites where you can check the possible value of a domain. The domain is not more worth than $200.
It has 3 words and only one is a keyword. It has some backlinks but the amount of traffic is so slow that you can't make money from adsense or other ads.
There is no offer for the domain, and most probably they haven't seen much interest.
So in other words, I should wait to see if they renew the domain and if not wait if they drop it? I am concerned about companies that specialize in catching expired domains in bulk. What do you think?
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