mtford

I have just started domaining in the past month or so. I've bought about 20 names, and sold 4 of them (two on NP live auctions, and two by contacting end-users). The remainder are all listed on Sedo, Afternic, Moniker and (the godaddy ones) on TDNAM. But I haven't had any offers from those listed domains. I'm curious to know how many offers other people are getting from those listing services. I.e. how many names do you need in your portfolio if you want to sell one per month at a reasonable price... or what fraction of your listed portfolio would you expect to sell in a year through those companies? Obviously it depends on the quality of the names, but let's say they have "low $xxx" NP appraisals, for the sake of argument.

Looking through NameBio's recent sales list, there are roughly 10 sales per day from Afternic, out of 3,000,000 total listings - that would mean an "average" listing should take 300,000 days, or 1,000 years to sell! Is this really true, or does NameBio only report a small minority of sales on their homepage?

Also, what are people's views on "featured listings", etc? Is the extra exposure worth the money? I've noticed that TDNAM listings with appraisals seem to have far more bids than listings without.

DavidH

If you have already sold two names to end users, you are doing well at the start of your domaining career. You obviously have some instinct as to what end users want - work on that and you will do well.

My experience lately is that unsolicited offers have virtually dried up (I have about 1000 names listed with Sedo for example) and even more effort is needed to find end users myself.

Have plenty of patience - sometimes it might take months or even several years for an end user to find you - it rarely happens that someone wants the name just days after you get it (although it is not unknown - it has happened to me on just a few occasions).

But if you can get a name for low $xx and even have to keep it for a couple of years, and then sell it for $xxx, you are still doing well.

Keep up approaching targetted end users with individually addressed relevant communications and by the laws of probability you will get responses and eventually sales. Dont be put off if you get no response, just try again with the next name and keep on going.

Good luck!

DavidH

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johname

If you sold 4 out of 20 your doing fine. Think of the Sedo and others as long term sales methods