How and where would you sell it?

[Kahless]

I have what I believe to a few high valued domains in the #*$!,xxx range. I was considering Ebay but there are so many domains there outrageously priced that are junk. I wonder if posting my domains there would actually decrease thier value. Also Ebay does not see much room for negotiation.

There is Sedo, Afternic, etc but it seems they would get lost in a sea of hundreds of thousands of domains. Meanwhile there is %10 commission.

Curious how this community would approach this kind of sale?

[Webwork]

Good domains are buyer magnets. You don't sell them. They sell themselves. Put up a 1 page website and indicate the domain is for sale. Put a comment in your WhoIs "DomainForSale". You needn't do either if the domain is a natural.

Traffic domains - ones that get proven natural type-in traffic - can be easily sold at DNForum and NamePros.

[edited by: Webwork at 2:04 am (utc) on Jan. 15, 2006]

[Kahless]

Hi thanks. I am aware of the services like mentioned above but there is so much garbage domains being sold through those services it seems mine would be getting lost in a sea of these Ads. That I assume may decrease the value of my domains by doing so.

[stu2]

You might also park your domains at a PPC service with a For Sale link. That way you get some income and stats which might give an indication of their value, whilst at the same time providing the possibility of interested buyers to contact you. Webwork's magnet principle at work.

[Kahless]

Do you guys have any faith in the sold to date figures listed at dnjournal.com? Some of these high value domains seem pretty lame compared to what I have and yet here I am looking for a place to sell them.

I put one of them over at Sedo as a featured listing. It's coming up on the 5th day and I am still waiting for it to appear, if it ever will.

[robho]

Do you guys have any faith in the sold to date figures listed at dnjournal.com?

Yes, they are real figures - three of my sales have been mentioned on there over the past couple of years.

I do agree though it's hard to see how some of them deserve the amount paid, especially the poorer two and three word domains. Like all markets, it's what somebody is prepared to pay.

But for every domain sold, there are thousands of extremely comparable names that don't find a buyer at any price (yet). Unless it's a really good one word domain name, waiting for a buyer takes patience. Years.