Has anyone been successful in selling domain names?

[hougtimo]

I appear to have collected quite a collection of domain names over the past couple of years. I have most of them parked with Sedo, and didn't really think much to it until someone showed some interest and eventually bought one of them.

I have now added the rest of my spare domains to sedo in the hope I might claw back some of the costs I've incurred buying up useless (to me) domains.

Has anyone here been successful in regard to selling domains? Any tips?

Cheers

 

[DanHarrison]

I've sold many domains and complete websites.

For .uk domains, it's worth trying over at Acorn Domains forum (http://www.acorndomains.co.uk)

For all other domains, I've had some success over at Digital Point forums (http://forums.digitalpoint.com)

Dan

 

[FireFleur]

The US tend to be a lot more into domain name trading, and generally they are looking for the TLD ones.

I suppose it will be picking up in the UK, I have seen a few people set up systems for it.

One thing I would say though is that DNS (Domain Name System) is probably not what people think it is, if you want to know more, DNS and BIND is quite revealing about the DNS system, it is a technical book but it does illustrate really what is going on.

 

[pressme]

I sold a domain with sedo priced in the thousands. Sedo made the whole process pretty painless, I would recommend them. Not a bad investment to have a portfolio of good domain names parked there.

 

[WHUK]

You may try selling domains at affiliates4u.com and namepros.com

 

[Tommo]

For my sins, been doing this for years, love it.

You can get sales at the forums, Acorn (for UK) NP, DNF ..Wouldn't touch DP with a bargepole with the amount of scammers. The forums tend to be reseller sales, I'd stick with looking for end user sales for higher prices.

If your parked with SEDO, selling there isn't too bad, but if you're not it costs a fortune in fees, and they are more often than not, not the greatest place to park your domains.

But yeh, if you're smart, there's room for a few more successful domainers.

 

[consultantUK]

Sales market got hammered just like the stockmarkets, parking markets revenue down 75% over 3 years and faling all the time. Not a good time to start out.

 

[liquidauctions]

i would hold on to them, just wait untill people start investing in things like that

 

[XEC Internet Consultants]

For most people with large domain portfolios, a pretty good selling rate would be arouns 2 to 4 per cent of your portfolio. From this you can see that even if you have excellent domains, you are unlikely to see much interest on Sedo unless you have a sizeable portfolio too. In the year to date we have sold 60 domains through Sedo - which is our best year yet.

Stephen.

 

[MASSEY]

For most people with large domain portfolios, a pretty good selling rate would be arouns 2 to 4 per cent of your portfolio. From this you can see that even if you have excellent domains, you are unlikely to see much interest on Sedo unless you have a sizeable portfolio too. In the year to date we have sold 60 domains through Sedo - which is our best year yet.

Stephen.

So how do you go about your domain selling, do you register things that could sell on that have not really had any interest and then list them on a site and hope for interest or...

its quite risky i think before you know it you can have loads of domains and recurring fees and make a loss. Im trying to put a limit on what im trying to get together i think im hoping i will strike lucky lol

 

[XEC Internet Consultants]

So how do you go about your domain selling, do you register things that could sell on that have not really had any interest and then list them on a site and hope for interest or...

its quite risky i think before you know it you can have loads of domains and recurring fees and make a loss. Im trying to put a limit on what im trying to get together i think im hoping i will strike lucky lol

All my domains are listed on Sedo. They are split 50/50 between names that were drop caught or names that are still free to register. There are still worthwhile names that have not been registered but you have to search hard. You really need to do your research though as you can end up wasting loads of money - the Google Adwords external tool is really useful for trying to identify what might be worth registering in terms of keyword domains.

The Acorn Domains forum mentioned elsewhere in the thread is a great place to learn more. Before you buy any domains, read as much as you can on there.

Stephen.

 

[MASSEY]

i looked at some whois info recently and found a domain thats quite good up for renewal in feb the name was registered nearly 10 years ago, is unused im just hoping i can get hold of it but im sure some one will beat me to it. thats all of course if its not re-registered that would bug me,