Comments on: Selling domain names

Question: Selling domain names

growabrain — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:15:11 -0800

I need to sell a good domain name for the highest price - fast. Where do I start?

Ebay or where?
Can somebody offer some advice, hopefully from personal experience, on the best places, method, copy, approach, to do it? Anybody willing to help me for a fee?

By: ceri richard

ceri richard — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:22:12 -0800

SitePoint marketplace?

By: mdn

mdn — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:51:21 -0800

haven't you missed that market? Do people still pay real money for domain names?

By: FlamingBore

FlamingBore — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:03:49 -0800

GAB - Fast and highest price are usually mutually exclusive.

How good are we talking here? what ball park are you looking to net?

By: winston

winston — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:37:20 -0800

Just to make sure you realize, "for the highest price" and "fast" sort of work against each other. You have the advantage when you don't particularly need to sell -- you can wait for the right price to come along. If you want fast, you need to take the best offer of the people who happen to be looking at this particular moment. This can make a significant difference.

By: winston

winston — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:37:47 -0800

So I guess the question is: how fast?

By: pwb503

pwb503 — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:14:05 -0800

Another good question is, what's the domain name?

By: JamesMessick

JamesMessick — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:14:14 -0800

Ditto. You want to sell it, so it won't hurt letting us know that it's on the market.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:43:00 -0800

You want to pay for an appraisal, and sell on Afternic.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:15:56 -0800

Yeah, is there some reason you don't want to tell us the name?

Generaly names get sold when someone wants one, and they contact the owner.

By: Meridian

Meridian — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:27:05 -0800

Pay for a Featured Domain spot on sedo.com or afternic or one of the similar domain auction sites. And dnforum is supposed to be pretty good for this sort of advice. Another place you could try asking this question is in the domain name forum at WebHostingTalk.

By: skallas

skallas — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:36:30 -0800

>>Yeah, is there some reason you don't want to tell us the name?

Yeah, because askmefi is not for advertising!

By: spitbull

spitbull — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:54:06 -0800

Unless it's damn good *and* generic, you'll only get a good price if the exact right buyer comes along and really needs *that* name. So like everyone is saying, bide your time, or contact companies that might want that specific name to let them know it's available. I have a friend who happened to register his own stage name as a domain years ago. A new radio station in a major city decided to use his (rather generic) stage name as an identity (think "common first name+popular music genre") and came a' calling with five grand on the table last year. Chances of that happening to you? Slim as heck unless the name is short, sweet, a .com, and of very specific interest to a particular buyer.

I remember when people made serious money by squatting on cool, obvious domain names. That was a decade ago, at least. You now compete with folks who buy hundreds and hundreds of names and market them furiously, at fairly low prices.

That said, I just scored an amazing domain name I figured was gone for sure. There are still holes in the fabric.

By: jonah

jonah — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:29:36 -0800

This was an interesting article on domainers, people who make money by parking high traffic domains. They do buy popular domains on the auction sites.

Here's an adsense option from google on parked domains, I never knew about that one.