Comment Use a domain escrow service - (e.g. escrow.com) (Score 1) 800
A few years ago I purchased a domain from someone in St. Petersburg Russia. I e-mailed the guy and asked him how much he wanted. He was asking for $3,000 which was fine with me. Initially I was not comfortable sending $3,000 to an unknown person in St. Petersburg. So, we used escrow.com which specializes in selling and buying domain names. The buyer pays escrow.com and the seller transfers the domain to escrow.com. When escrow.com confirms the buyers paid and the transfer from the seller, they sending the money to the seller and transfer the domain to the buyer. Safe and simple.