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Welcome to my blog.  I’ve created this blog to provide tips to buyers and sellers on ways to safely buy and sell domain names. 

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There are many ways to verify the identify of someone, and none of them are entirely safe.  Most experienced buyers and sellers will start with a google search on the person’s name and email address.  Find out everything you can and make sure that you don’t see anything that indicates the person might be a scammer.

Many have started to avoid doing business with anyone who uses a free email account at sites such as yahoo, gmail, msn, aol, etc.  Anyone can setup an email address there in minutes, which plays into the scammers hands.  Ask them to send you an email from a “real” website and if possible one that is owned by them.   Verify the email, name, address and phone number via a whois of the domain they are sending from.  Most experienced domainers have a domain that they use for email and as such the contact information on the whois should match what they are providing you.

If the person you are transacting with is a member of NamePros, DP, or other domaining community check them out there and look at their past transactions.  Always be wary of someone who has only joined recently and has no transaction history. Yes they may be a newbie, but they could also be a scammer.  Use extra caution when moving forward with the transaction.

 On larger transactions I like to talk to the person via the phone.  Ask them for a phone number where you can contact them and then call them.   Have them verify their contact information and ensure that this matches what you see via the payment method they are using.

 Some people prefer to have a name, address and phone number that can be verified by a lookup in the phone book.  If dealing with someone in your country this is fairly easy, and with the migration of phone books to the internet it becomes easier to verify the person.  Call the number listed in the book and talk to the person you are dealing with.

The bottom line is that you want to make all efforts possible to verify that the person you are transacting with is indeed who they say they are.  Scammers are becoming more and more adept at phishing and taking over someone else’s persona during the transaction.