Recently there have been numerous reports about all sorts of domain scams and high profile domain thefts by fraudsters and scammers.

Hackers and other criminal minds manage to steal domains and then barefacedly try to sell them in the domain aftermarket.

This sort of thing can be very horrendous to the victim (domain owner) but the domain industry on a whole is also a victim.

If people are stealing domains and then directly approaching end-users to offer them for sale it could throw this fragile domain industry into further disrepute.

Now, according to an email that I got this morning, it would appear that some people actively trying to sell domains that they do not even own or have control over.

Here is an email that I got this morning:

” Hi I have several domains that I want to sell such as Planets.com $700k, Amnesia.com $40k, Downline.com $25k, Lose.net $9k, eSales.com $100k, HardDrives.com $310k, etc. Are you interested in buying any of the mentioned domains yourselves?”

Normally you would get suspicious immediately when you receive these domains as the quality of the domains do not match the prices, which are normally well below their average retail market value. However, in this case the sender got the prices spot on.

However, I found it strange that someone with such high profile domains would be seeking to sell them in such a (desperate) manner.

A simply Whois check on the domains reveal that they are all owned by different individuals or companies based in different cities/countries.

Now I suspect the sender of the email is not the owner of these domains. The name in the email did not match any of the Whois records. Secondly, although a few of the domains are indeed for sale at the prices mentioned in the email, the sender did not identify himself as a domain broker or agent acting behalf of the domain owners.

Approaching a clueless end-user with premium domains that you do no even own is one thing, but trying to sell them to a seasoned domainer is just damn stupid and obnoxious.

The funny thing is, I get these types of emails on a daily basis.

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