Selling a domain fast & easy or letting it expire ?

Probably you are wasting your time trying to sell these at any of the regular places unless they are very good domains. You best bet to recoup a few dollars is to auction them off here on NamePros starting price $1 each. If you PM me your list of domains, I could give you more specific advice.

If the domains are at GoDaddy you have 18 days after expiry to renew the domains before they are taken out of your account. But you can go to your control panel and click Domains>Recovered Expired Domains and renew them there, but you will have to pay a Redemption Fee. However it isn't advisable to pay the Redemption Fee. Just unlock the domain, get the Auth Codes and then put in a transfer from another registrar for a normal one year renewal cost. You can do this up to Day 44 or 45. But better to do it as soon as you decide to keep the domain(s).

silverider said:

The other thing is I wonder what the expiration process entails. Right now the domains are private but they were'nt always, I registered them privately after I found out my address was all over the internet.
Once expired will domain research co's be able to sell historical data on my former domains which will no longer be private , including my personal data for the period I owned the domains ?

Same thing, if I sell to someone what happens to the historical data of my domains, can it be published again if it's no longer privately registered by the new owner ?

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Yes if someone wants to find the history of any domain that belonged to you at one point, they can pay and it will show your info up uptil the time it went private, then it will show GoDaddy's Domainsbyproxy ownership info, and then afterwards - the info of whoever picks up your domain after it gets purchased through GoDaddy auctions or when it eventually drops.

a) dont wait till the last week to unload

b) contact a few people to see if there is interest.

c) if you get luck and find an interested party don't all a sudden get greedy with your half in the dumpster domain.

Goodluck

Sometimes the time it takes and the effort are not worth the opportunity to sell a junk name. Sometimes the time and persistence taken can actually hurt ones reputation or make one seem incredibly greedy.

I would try and offload those domains for a few $$ rather than just waiting for them to expire & get a big fat $0

How much time do you have left before they expire anyways?

Just throw them up at GD and set it with a low bid start or even try an auction here on the forum. If you are already thinking of dropping them, then you don't have much to lose.

In any case, if you don't do anything, GD is going to try selling them anyways when they expire. All of their expired domains are up for grabs on their auction system. And if nobody takes them after that, then you know that maybe the names weren't all that great.

silverider said:

I would try to sell them but I only tried Godaddy auction without getting bids.

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It's a sign that what you have may not be worth anything at all.

silverider said:

I could see those domains selling for a few hundreds at least

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Nearly every domainer thinks the same way with the domains they own, when in reality a lot of them are worth less than reg fee.

silverider said:

I found out my address was all over the internet.
Once expired will domain research co's be able to sell historical data on my former domains which will no longer be private , including my personal data for the period I owned the domains ?

Same thing, if I sell to someone what happens to the historical data of my domains, can it be published again if it's no longer privately registered by the new owner ?

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Unfortunately, your personal records are permanently out there on the internet. Everything released in the public domain, remains public property. I haven't seen any software that can erase your records and give you a clean slate..... unless you want to contact Bruce Wayne.

silverider said:

If I let them expire, decide for whatever reason I want to get them back , what's the earliest time this can be done ?

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As soon as it becomes available for regging the moment it was dropped, you can immediately reg it again. Sometimes, the biggest insult is when you drop your precious domain you believe is worth hundreds, and it still remains unregistered for years.

alien51 said:

It's a sign that what you have may not be worth anything at all.




Nearly every domainer thinks the same way with the domains they own, when in reality a lot of them are worth less than reg fee.




Unfortunately, your personal records are permanently out there on the internet. Everything released in the public domain, remains public property. I haven't seen any software that can erase your records and give you a clean slate..... unless you want to contact Bruce Wayne.

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On the subject of privacy, I just wonder if once I let expire or sell,
my personal info will not only be available as "historical data" on searches for the specific domains, but also via "reverse lookups" in the same way it 's available when I own the domains as publicly registered. Basically, if someone googles you, can they find out about your previously owned domains ?

I would rather the domains stay unregistered after I let expire, my guess is if I they get taken I have no control
whatsoever on the data that can be published on them . I suppose there is no way to keep them off the market,
especially since GD tries to sell them (which I find questionable). Do you know of any registrar with ultra low
fees (even lower than GD ) ?I could just keep them for a while with lower fees.

On the subject of GD auctions:
Actually I am not sure I did anything right when it was on GD auction, I just paid the fee and asked them how it worked, I checked a few times and that's it. I didn't do anything to"market" my domains on their website (if that's possible at all). I found their GD websites confusing and overloaded with information, I guess it's all part of the business model : confuse and get them to pay more (than they should).

silverider said:

On the subject of privacy, I just wonder if once I let expire or sell,
my personal info will not only be available as "historical data" on searches for the specific domains, but also via "reverse lookups" in the same way it 's available when I own the domains as publicly registered. Basically, if someone googles you, can they find out about your previously owned domains ?

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From my experience, there are so many websites out there that archive WHOIS data. Supposedly, reverse lookups should only work for the "current" owner of the domain. But then, many of them don't get updated, and some are frozen in time. I have searched my own whois record on domains i have dropped like 3 years ago, and Google still returns search results from websites that still carry me as the owner of the domain. I don't even know who is running these websites.

silverider said:

I would rather the domains stay unregistered after I let expire, my guess is if I they get taken I have no control
whatsoever on the data that can be published on them

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Well, you cannot control what you don't own anymore. The same with any kind of property outside the internet. As for cheap domain renewals, GD offers the cheapest at 8 bucks a pop (or lower with coupons). You can practically own your .COM domain for a lifetime, if you have a sustainable day job.

What's 8 bucks a year, anyway? You spend more money on McDonalds in a week.

I found webs.com, free domains from what I understand.

Firstly you say the domains are worth a few hundred bucks, and then you say you would prefer the domain to go unregistered, if you let them drop. These are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

My advice to you is if you decide to let them drop you should changed the whois records to gibberish before they expire. So you should make the decision to keep or drop before they expire.

If you have to think about dropping them then that generally means they are not that good to begin with. The keepers are the ones you dont have to give a second thought about renewing.

Think of it like this: Instead of dropping it why not get a few dollars for it quickly on ebay(make sure you state payment immediately on the listing) and use the money for a really good domain on GoDaddy to expire and get it to replace the one you sold.

Good tutorial here!

Ebay ?
How do you make the transfer so as to give confidence to potential buyers ?
edit: OK I see you just push your domain to another GD customer ?
What if you are with another registrar ?

And how good is eBay to sell domains ? I mean who searches for domains
on eBAY ?