GoDaddy and Afternic

[Trapbarn]

Anyone had experience of selling a domain name?

I have come across concerning online comments about unethical practices by GoDaddy and Afternic and collusion between them to exploit sellers.

 

[fisicx]

Domain names are generally worth pennies. Value is added if it comes with a successful website.

There are umpteen places to sell a domain name. Why would you want to use godaddy?

 

[Trapbarn]

GoDaddy hold the registration so i thought it might be easier because of that.

 

[fisicx]

Godaddy doesn’t hold anything. They are just the current registrar.

Nobody owns domain names. All you get is a license to use the name. You can transfer the license yourself or get a broker to do it for you.

But it’s worth very little unless you are selling an online business.

 

[WaveJumper]

Have used Sedo.com in the past but as above unless they generate a huge amount of traffic nobody seems interested, thats certainly been my experience

 

[Ozzy]

Same as @WaveJumper I have also used Sedo to buy and also sell domain names.
They never had any traffic. I purchased a domain name because I wanted that name and I have also sold a few domain names (with no traffic) and made a few bob doing so.