Laughable offer (1.Viewing)

rlm · Apr 11, 2023

Got an offer of $1000 on an LLL that is also a popular & meaningful dictionary word, a first name, and a last name, and thus of course used in many existing business names.

They claimed this was their best offer and that since I bought it in TBR I should just take the profit.

The fact that they know enough about TBR means they're not naive about domains, which is what begins to make it laughable.

The fact that the offer came from the infamous Daniel Mullen, who has certainly been around long enough to know better is what made it truly laughable.

I can't remember ever having received offers from him before (netnic.ca address) Anyone here ever deal with him?

MapleDots · Apr 11, 2023

He's been around the block a few times.

I'm pretty sure he knows the value of domains so he's probably just testing the water.

BillSweetman · Apr 11, 2023

Yeah, that buyer knows the value of domains. Longtime domainer.

rlm · Apr 11, 2023

MapleDots said:
He's been around the block a few times.

I'm pretty sure he knows the value of domains so he's probably just testing the water.

I replied to him with:

You've been around long enough to know that offer is ludicrous.

And yet he still was confident enough to reply back with:

You are clearing over $900 for being on the TBR and should be happy with that.

However, he's clearly out of touch with TBR to think that a domain like that would have been purchased for $100 or less just because it was in TBR. Trust me, this domain would have went for way more than $100 in TBR even 15+ years ago.

silentg · Apr 11, 2023

who is this Daniel Mullen? Google shows he was involved in quite a few CDRP cases.

rlm · Apr 11, 2023

MaiTaiMan said:
Yeah, that buyer knows the value of domains. Longtime domainer.

I know his name from reading many CDRP cases, but I don't have any record of him ever trying to buy a domain from me before.

UPDATE: I was mistaken, a different search did dig up some correspondence in the past, when he wanted to buy unlimitedinternet.ca from me. He claimed to be having money problems, but he wanted the domain for his ISP service. I must have been in a good mood because after some back and forth, he made a fairly low offer, one I don't think I'd normally accept, and I agreed for some reason, maybe to be nice or as an attempt to get to know him. But then he ghosted me and never bought it anyways, lol.

Apparently, this is him: https://www.danielmullen.ca/

DomainRecap · Apr 11, 2023