Venues and Methods For Selling Domains

How and WhereTo Sell Domains

[PPC_Player]

I want to find some additional places to sell my domains online. I have worked with Moniker, and I have had some success, however I want to get my portfolio out to some other domain auctions. Moniker is great, however I felt like there was a lack of promotion and planning for the recent live, and silent auction. I realize it was a much smaller audience compared to other shows and auctions they host, but I still want to test out some other domain auctions online.

I have taken a look at Godaddy, Afternic, BuyDomains etc. but I was hoping you guys might know some great places to promote and get domains out into the world for everyone to see.

Want to know if any of you have had success, and how you promoted the sale of your domain name(s)

Thanks,

[edited by: PPC_Player at 9:27 pm (utc) on Dec. 17, 2007]

[Webwork]

Aftermarket sales figures are pretty dismal and it's long been that way. Consider the millions of domains listed at Sedo and compare that to their sales stats.

There is no venue that will "sell domains". Either the domains are desirable or not.

If the domains have provable, commercially viable type-in traffic then park them and use the traffic stats to help sell them.

If the domains don't have any traffic and they're simply clever or brandable then there are millions of other domains in competition with them.

It's not the venue, nor the sales pitch nor the promotional headline that sell a domain.

IF I were in your shoes, and it appears that you really really need or want to sell some domains, then I'd simply list them everywhere PLUS I'd put a note in the WhoIs record indicating they're for sale, as well as parking them with a lander that indicates they're for sale.

That's the best you can do. Put them up everywhere you possibly can and right price them. Right pricing sometimes - probably 99% of the time - means a price where you recapture your out of pocket expense. Somewhat like getting a refund for a lottery ticket that didn't win.

Lastly, I'd prefer that we don't get into threads where everyone lists their favorite domain sale websites, but I'll consider this an exception to the usual rule.

Fire away folks. Where do you post your domains for sale?

[rocker]

I sold 2 domains at SEDO in $y,yyy range.

However, I do feel that both domains were sold more because the buyers really wanted them, as opposed to where they were listed for sale.

I list all my domains for sale at SEDO because I get paid for clicks and if I sell a domain they escrow the sale. If not for that I would put up a single page listing the domain for sale. Many hosts now allow you to set up several domains on a single hosting plan

[gpmgroup]

Oversee.net/Snapnames DomainFest Auction submission has just closed but I think they may still consider exceptional domains.

With John Battelle, Peter Hilary & Frank Schilling headlining I would imagine it would be one of the events most likely to bring people out in the near future.

[Insomniak]

I've been looking at options for selling domains as well. Found a couple of forums but they seem to be mostly for inexpensive low quality names. Won't list them here but they aren't hard to find or particularly good. Another forum looked a bit better but it cost $60 to upgrade your account to be able to post domains for sale, not bad it it worked but Im not sure if it would.

Does anyone have thoughts on using ebay for domains?