Anyone deal with DomainAgents? Scam? Or what?

[WhoaDomain.com]

Got an email from Domain Agents today for my domain WhoaList (in king)

how does this work? seems like someone is interested in it and DomainAgents is contacting me.

are they a scam? to get me to register for their service with the "hope" that I might have a sale?

I've never seen this before. I get this feeling there is no buyer. and hey just want me to sign up for whatever service they have.

 

[DomainAgents]

The members here are familiar with how Escrow.com works. We've completed tens of millions of dollars of domain transactions with them and never had a domain 'hijacked'. We're sorry that we couldn't assuage this persons concerns, but it is policy to ban buyers or sellers who refuse to complete an agreement.

 

[pelez]

want to buy domain through domainagents.com, if i send the money via escrow how do i contact seller to transfer domain?

 

[Mcclmar]

The service they use with escrow.com is not an escrow. It does not protect the seller and buyer from hijacking.

I would recommend reaching out directly to the owner of the domain and negotiating on your own and using a real escrow.com service that protects both parties.

Or, If you want to skip escrow and take a little risk... just use PayPal.

 

[Samer]

The members here are familiar with how Escrow.com works. We've completed tens of millions of dollars of domain transactions with them and never had a domain 'hijacked'. We're sorry that we couldn't assuage this persons concerns, but it is policy to ban buyers or sellers who refuse to complete an agreement.

Escrow.com is a joke.

u have a better name and brand than escrow.

PS: This thread is from 2017! Who revived it.

 

[Mcclmar]

@Datalife -- same experience. Also, you bear the risk for transactions... don't do it - not "real escrow".

 

[cerno]

DomainAgents.com is clearly a scam as they are asking for a fee to make purchase offers on domains that are not listed for sale with their company or anywhere else. I came across this scam when they published a domain sale page for one of my domains and that page appeared in Google search results. Publishing a sales page implies they have been engaged to sell the domain and that is not true.

On DomainAgents.com I asked to buy DomainAgents.com and they asked for $19.95 to contact their own company.
On DomainAgents.com I asked to buy Microsoft.com and they asked for $19.95 to contact Microsoft.

DomainAgents.com is not disclosing they have not been hired by the domain owner, nor that the domain of interest might not even be for sale. An Agent is a person who acts on behalf of another person or group, they are not disclosing they are not the domain owner's agent, intentionally misleading those who use their website.