Selling Domain Names

SlanGoFoil2011

Has anyone ever got involved in buying and selling domain names.

If you have a good one like "www.computerfixers.com" for instance.

Can you make money buy selling them and whats the best way to go about it.

PCPhoto

you can make money IF you get a name someone wants - so you can (in theory)make money but in this day and age the internet boom is well and truely on the way down/gone.

pretty sure I read recently that the internets people are going to release personalised extensions so people/companies are going to be creating their own websites ( not sure if that makes sense but basically instead of .com people like apple will have .apple , nike will more than likely take .nike etc)

(its supposed to be super expensive though)

in the current market the best way to go about it is to find a website ( lets say mcdonaldsfurniture.com then contact a shop called mcdonalds furniture and offer them the site - at a profit)

SlanGoFoil2011

but is there good sites that you can load up the names andf sell them

R3al

Probaby one of the best known sites for auctioning or selling domain names is sedo .co.uk, there is also a category in Ebay for domain names.

SlanGoFoil2011

its hardly a liquid market, is it?

do people buy and sell names alot

R3al

There is a large market in generic tld domains such as .com, however all the single words and sought after domains were taken years ago so you are unlikely to make your fortune by registering currently available domains with a view to selling them on

mneylon

If you're thinking of getting into "domaining" then you should probably read up on what others are doing and how they are doing it

Take a look at:
http://www.domaining.com/
http://www.domainamewire.com

There are several vibrant marketplaces including Sedo, Afternic and others
Ebay is pretty much a waste of time, unless you're trying to flip domains at low values, though if you're a buyer you might pick up a few reasonable domains on there
You can see past sales reports on sites like: http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

mneylon

PCPhoto wrote: »

pretty sure I read recently that the internets people are going to release personalised extensions so people/companies are going to be creating their own websites ( not sure if that makes sense but basically instead of .com people like apple will have .apple , nike will more than likely take .nike etc)

(its supposed to be super expensive though)

You're talking about the launch of "new TLDs" which is pretty exciting

http://www.prlog.org/11549627-blacknight-welcomes-the-approval-of-new-gtlds.html

There's lots of info on the ICANN site (http://www.icann.org), but the baseline costs of setting up your own domain extension are high (185k application fee is just the tip of the iceberg)

PCPhoto wrote: »

in the current market the best way to go about it is to find a website ( lets say mcdonaldsfurniture.com then contact a shop called mcdonalds furniture and offer them the site - at a profit)

You have to be very very careful with that, as you could easily be accused of cybersquatting.

SlanGoFoil2011

Due to a project I was working on a few years ago I/we aquired a few domains, Is there any value in these or do you think I should just let the ones I am am not using lapse next year.

Anyone ever tried to sell domains before.

How did you get on?

COMPARETURBINES.COM

COMPAREWINDTURBINES.COM

ENVIRONMENTALWINDFARM.COM

MAINTAINTURBINES.COM

MAINTAINWINDFARM.COM

MAINTAINWINDFARMS.COM

MAINTAINWINDTURBINES.COM

WINDFARMCONNECTION.COM

WINDFARMELECTRICAL.COM

WINDFARMELECTRICS.COM

WINDFARMENVIRONMENTAL.COM

WINDFARMPM.COM

R3al

Sedo and other domain market places offer a valuation service, that might be your best starting point, you can also list domains with a 'make me an offer' price

SlanGoFoil2011

I just get the feeling you can pay for valuations etc, and be told they arew worth x y and z.

But I really doubt the market is liquid enough to sell them and I just end you with another bill to get them valued.

Does anyone have any opinions as to wether they are worth anything or just to let them lapse.

mneylon

Sedo offers a very basic valuation service for free, but if you want a proper valuation it'll cost.

You could list the names on Sedo or Afternic and see if anyone bites ..

SlanGoFoil2011

I put them up, Ill let you know how it goes.

Any opinions welcome

Do you think there is any value or maket in these things

I dont anyway

RATM

I'd say the days of serious domain name investing are over, most of the good stuff would be long gone.

The exception to this might be to try to get fast out of the traps on new product names. Snatching things like iPadrepairs.com, fixmyipad.com, etc in the hours after the annoucnement of the iPad name might have made you a few quid. That's provided Apple didn't take them first of course....

seanob43

You would have to know what you're doing with domains such as if it's a popular search term in Google.

Also, someone above said something about buying domains as soon as the product is announced. I tried to do this when E3 was going on because I knew there would be product announcements, you would not believe how quick some of them go. Matter of seconds....

Also some people get tip-offs about the products names so they can register domain names before we have even heard whispers about it.

Tl;dr.....You don't stand a chance :L
You can't go into domain business lightly.

jmcc

SlanGoFoil2011 wrote: »

Has anyone ever got involved in buying and selling domain names.

If you have a good one like "www.computerfixers.com" for instance.

Can you make money buy selling them and whats the best way to go about it.

Yes.

Good is relative. If you had computer.com or fixers.com then they might be worth a lot more as single keywords.

You can make money. But you can also lose a lot of money and most people lose money. With most of the new gTLDs, a lot of money may be made in the first few months of their operation but only a few will become successful. The .com is the blue chip TLD and good domains there sell for more than in others. The other major TLDs are .de and .co.uk. The .net/org also have domainer sales but the .info and .biz have correspondingly lower prices. The higher the number of domain names registered in a TLD, the more likely that there is a demand for domains however the selling prices can and do vary.

Read some of the articles from the sites that Blacknight posted. They should give you some insight. One of the best books in recent years is "The Domain Game" by David Kesmodel. It gives a history of the business but it might be a bit specialised if you are not in the domain business.

Regards...jmcc

SlanGoFoil2011

I didnt buy thesse to make money from them, but I have them now. I needed them at the time, used a few and no longer needed.

Do you think anyone would want to buy them from me.

SlanGoFoil2011

maybe they are worth something as a portfolio to an energy company

bmstuff

DNFORUM.COM is the place where you sell your stuff.

If it does not sell on DNFORUM, there is little chance it will sell anywhere else.

In order to sell domains in there, you need to be a member (You need to PAY).

I am a member in there, I can list them for you if you want and let you know if there is any offer on them, I will send you the link to the thread so you can see by yourself.

What you can do as well, is park them with custom ads content. I use NameDrive for that, they are good and provide good cash flow if your domains are worthy enough (read traffic). Basically people visit your site and click on links and you get cash. Much better than many other solutions around.
This is free.

SlanGoFoil2011

based on the ones I have do you think they are worth anything.

Guess

bmstuff

SlanGoFoil2011 wrote: »

based on the ones I have do you think they are worth anything.

Guess

They could be potentially, but they will not host premium content nor generate top traffic. They represent a specific industry sector and as such they represent a niche market.

Using Google Trends will also show you that interest for wind turbines is slowing down since 2009
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wind+turbine

And most wind turbines queries on Google actually come Ireland (Always trying to catch up)

So I doubt they would fetch for a lot.

But because you have a good few of them, you could sell them as a bulk and see what people say.

I'd say if you sell the lot for 500 USD, you are quit lucky. But you never know, you might find a wealthy buyer.

I can list them on DNFORUM if you want?

SlanGoFoil2011

Yea if you can.

Would be intestested to find out.

Thanks

mneylon

bmstuff wrote: »

DNFORUM.COM is the place where you sell your stuff.
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It is a place. Describing it as "the place" isn't exactly realistic - there are plenty of other domain name forums and marketplaces

bmstuff wrote: »

If it does not sell on DNFORUM, there is little chance it will sell anywhere else.

That's not true

bmstuff wrote: »

In order to sell domains in there, you need to be a member (You need to PAY).

You don't need to pay to become a member, but you need to pay to list domains for sale

bmstuff wrote: »

What you can do as well, is park them with custom ads content. I use NameDrive for that, they are good and provide good cash flow if your domains are worthy enough (read traffic). Basically people visit your site and click on links and you get cash. Much better than many other solutions around.
This is free.

That's highly subjective.
Depending on the type of domains and the kind of traffic they get there are plenty of different parking (and other monetisation solutions) out there

bmstuff

Blacknight wrote: »

It is a place. Describing it as "the place" isn't exactly realistic - there are plenty of other domain name forums and marketplaces

That's not true


You don't need to pay to become a member, but you need to pay to list domains for sale



That's highly subjective.
Depending on the type of domains and the kind of traffic they get there are plenty of different parking (and other monetisation solutions) out there

Michele seriously...

Wanna help and say something constructive to this thread? Then list the other sites you mean and propose solutions. Yes there are tons of others, Sedo etc as already mentioned.

Many sites are asking you to pay now to evaluate your domain, others take a cut when selling, others are doing reverse auctions, so yeah there are tons of others, but many are a pain to deal with.

And yes you need to pay to list domains for sale on DNFORUM, as I said, that's why I proposed him to list the domains in the forum, for free, because I am a nice guy and wanna help the OP out.

And yes if there is no interest on DNFORUM, that probably means the domains in question will have little chance to fetch on other sites. You do know the amount of professional buyers there are on DNFORUM. They are here for a reason, if nobody lift a finger on your names, that means something. DNFORUM will help to gauge interest on the domains you have for sale.
So yeah DNFORUM is definitely a place to be mainly due to its very large number of members/professional buyers/sellers.

And yes NameDrive is a very good solution, I made nice cash with it and I used many others too.

Affiliate programs can be good too. But do not expect to win thousands and thousands...things take time, work and lots of domains.

SlanGoFoil2011

Well I am curious

I think the names are OK.

But I think WINDFARMPM.COM (wind far, project management) is a very good domain.

But a company which has a general solutions service for windfarms might be interested in the lot.

Whats the most you have made and what was the name????????????????

Axwell

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SlanGoFoil2011

chill out - its hardly spamming.

But anyway - whats the most you have ever sold a domain name for.

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SouperComputer

SlanGoFoil2011 wrote: »

Well I am curious

I think the names are OK.

But I think WINDFARMPM.COM (wind far, project management) is a very good domain.

But a company which has a general solutions service for windfarms might be interested in the lot.

Whats the most you have made and what was the name????????????????

It comes down to this: who might want it, how bad do they want/need it and what are they willing to pay. In this case my opinion is not a lot. How many wind farm project management companies are out there to begin with? Further to that, they will probably want their doamin to be named after their company which will likely be different. If you want a figure, I'd say if you get offered 20euro, take it and run.