Selling strategy:
1- Buy high quality domains
2- List your domains on all marketplaces (Sedo, Afternic, Undeveloped, Uniregistry)
3- Use good looking landing page for all your domains (Undeveloped & Efty are recommended)
4- Actively market your domains in forums, social networks..etc
5- You can sell your domains at Namepros but at reseller prices (low profit margins)
6- Try to do outbound on your top domains but do not over do it.
#1 is the most important strategy, good domains sell themselves, if you have high quality domains buyers will reach you.
Listen to the pro members who advised you to not do hand reg, What is meant by hand reg is that domains that you come up with and find them available to register, these domains have 0 to very slim chance to sell because they have been available all these years and had never been taken. Think about it, if a domain had been available to be registered for 24 years (since 1995), then why there will be sudden demand on the domain after you register it in 2019?!
The only cases where you can do hand reg are:
1- if the domain was dropped recently, and was registered or in-use in the past. You can use
expireddomains.net to check recent drop lists.
2- if the domain is brandable name (combo or madeup name), and can be listed on brandable domains marketplaces (
Brandbucket,
SquadHelp,
Brandpa.. and others) but this is very tricky, so stay away from it if you are a beginner.
3- Domain speculation: If the domain is related to a new emerging technology or trending niche, this is also very tricky for a beginner and requires advanced skill.
Focus on buying domains from:
1- Expired auctions & Closeouts
2- Aftermarket or from Namepros members
3- Droplists free reg
Only buy/register high value domains, it is not easy task to determine which domains are valuable, but here are some hints:
Keyword/Exact Match Domains
1- Many other TLDs are taken for the name or close variant of it (you can use
dofo.com for that)
2- High monthly search volume in google
3- The domain is in an active and growing niche or business
4- The domain is not related to an obsolete or dead product or business (ex: fax is dead product)
5- The domain name makes sense and has potential use.
6- Similar domains were sold in the past (check
namebio.com for that)
Liquid domains:
1- Dictionary one word domains: value depends on all of the above + popularity of the word + singular vs plural (depends on the name) + correct spelling (never register misspelled domains).
2- 3L, 3N, 4L, 4N, 5L & 5N domains: check
shortnames.com to get an idea of the value for each category. Look at sales history, sales chart, and the prices of current available domains.