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Selling domain names

Where to go. Which site is better sedo or afternic.. any other?

         

Rose_1171

2:54 am on Dec 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Any suggestion where to sell them?

Cheers

Rose

[edited by: Webwork at 2:57 am (utc) on Dec. 1, 2007]
[edit reason] No specifics per Charter [/edit]

Webwork

3:30 am on Dec 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Hello Rose.

If you have been receiving regular unsolicited inquiries then chances are you will do best by negotiating with one of those interested parties.

If you haven't been receiving inquiries then chances are no matter what "selling venue" you choose the odds are that the venue won't do much to help sell the domains.

If you look at the listing stats for most aftermarkets they list 100s of 1000s of domains, but how many are sold in a given week or month? Very few. 9 times out of 10 the ones that sell within the aftermarket sites probably didn't sell because of anything the aftermarket did "to market the domain". It's not as if the aftermarket sites devote any time to actively solicit buyers. Any number of the aftermarket buyers are domainers bargain hunting, i.e., underpriced or under-optimized (to exploit type-in traffic) domains.

You might do yourself some good by making an entry in your WhoIs record to suggest that the domain is for sale. Some folks use one of the address lines, say for the technical contact, to suggest that they domain is for sale.

I don't believe there's any restrictions on listing the domains with more than 1 aftermarket site at a time. Check the listing agreement to confirm this.

Good luck, and forgive the edit but we don't allow members to post details about their domains in an effort to limit forum spamming with commercial offers.

[edited by: Webwork at 3:33 am (utc) on Dec. 1, 2007]

amarsimha

7:11 am on Dec 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



HELLO REGARDING TO YOUR QUESTION THE WAY IS NOT EITHER MONIKER OR SEDO OR ANYTHING ELSE . IF UR DOMAINS HAD THE WORTH TO HIT THE DOMAIN AUCTIONS THEY CAN AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDED . FIRST OF ALL TRY IN DOMAIN FORUMS . U GOT LOT OF POTENTIAL BUYERS THERE . THANK U

Rose_1171

3:11 pm on Dec 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



no worries, and Tx Webwork

amarsimha, do you know any good forums i could post?

Can you please pm me those or send me email?

will appreciate it

Rose

Webwork

3:48 pm on Dec 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Forums serve a very limited market: traffic buyers and resellers.

Traffic buyers will only pay for domains that have a proven income record from domain parking. From what you are saying it sounds a bit like have never been parked - so you are "out of the traffic marketplace".

Resellers look for significantly unpriced domains, i.e., a buying opportunity. A reseller will attempt to value your domain and then offer you 1/10 or less of their estimate of resale-to-enduser value to cover their risk.

Compared to the number of domains offered for sale in domain forums I'd say the chance of sale approaches 0.

The best approach might be to first list your domain for appraisal in several domain forums and then take a blended estimate for your "offered for sale" price.

Almost every domain forum (just search the various phrase(s) for "domain forum") allows you to post domains for sale. WebmasterWorld doesn't allow such offerings to keep the WebmasterWorld Domain Forum in harmony with the non-commercial nature of the entire website. I like it that way overall - more signal and less promotional noise throughout WebmasterWorld - or I wouldn't put up with the nuttiness of being the only domainer-moderator of a domain forum that doesn't allow for the listing of domains. ;-P

Rose_1171

7:30 pm on Dec 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



tx webwork

i heard yaa on that.. its hard for sure to sell domains

I wont give up though :)

Cheers

Rose