How should I word these emails to sell my deceased husband's domain?

Post date: 2026-10-28 10:02:44

My husband was an early user of the internet and acquired the domain hisfirstnamehislastname.com a long time ago. He died about a year and a half ago and I would like to try to sell it.

It is actually up for sale, if you search for that domain it will land on a "this domain is for sale" page. His name wasn't terribly uncommon and I've identified four people who have the same name who might be interested, a doctor, a lawyer, an executive and a performer. They all have public emails I could use.

Do you have any advice for how to approach them? I was planning to have it come from my email address which is myfirstname.mymaidenname.hislastname at gmail.com. It seems like that would seem fairly legit. It could actually come from an email from the domain name but that actually seems spammier to me since it would be the name of the person I'm emailing.

If you have any advice for how to make this email seem very legit (it is!) and likelier to get a response let me know!

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