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How Many Sales Platforms Do You List Your Domains On?

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    34.6%
  • 3-5

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    50.8%
  • 6+

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    6.0%
  • None

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    8.5%
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In the domain industry, there are plenty of services available to help you promote your domain names. Some platforms cater more towards domain investors, whilst some have the ability to reach vast numbers of end users.

GoDaddy’s Afternic platform, for example, has partnered with a number of domain name registrars to help promote any name listed at Afternic. According to statistics from Afternic, domain names on the company’s premium network have exposure to 75 million qualified buyers per month.

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Sedo is also a popular destination for end user sales, with thousands of companies paying five, six or seven figure fees for domains listed on the marketplace. Companies such as Flippa, GoDaddy Auctions and NameJet offer investors the opportunity to sell their domains to other investors, freeing up cash for other purposes.

As you see, there are a number of different sales platforms available to list your domain names on. But how many sales platforms do you list your own domain names on? That is the question we are asking in this week’s poll.
 
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Thanks for the poll.

One suggestion though,
wouldn't be better if you listed the most common platforms and we clicked those that we use? because 2 or 3 doesn't mean much honestly.
 
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IMO, Listings at Afternic and Sedo truly matter. Not because people always look for domains there but because of their distribution network (GoDaddy first and foremost). I guess (based on data and estimation) that up to ~50% of Mike Mann's sales is generated by these platforms (and because he sells a lot and regularly it may be a strong indication of a rule). All other marketplaces don't essentially matter, besides good simple lander. This opinion applies to global domain market. Specifics of local markets may vary. ~AW
 
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After selling 20k in domains on sedo ober the last year and change. I let them close my account. I dont like how they operate. If a mistake is made you are subject to paying the price. I will stick with afternic. And landing pages. Landers are the best thats how i sell majority of my names. Oh and namejet is awesome too.

But sedo you can kick rocks along with brandbucket
 
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My current routine is:

list at GoDaddy Make Offer
list at Sedo Make Offer
list at Afternic Minimum Offer/Make Offer - some of these I'm turning into Fast transfer
list some at Namejet every month
 
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None.

Parking at Bodis and ParkingCrew is enough for me.
 
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I like afternic when there is a good broker involved.if there was some way to carry a dialog with the buyer i think sales would triple .i just try to make sure that after an afternic inquiry i make my site real visable .if afternic does not want to earn their huge fee and be proactive then if the buyer takes another route then they get squat
 
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It doesn't matter much when there are very few buyers.
 
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to list a domain for sale in afternic how much pay or its free
 
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I tend to list them at: Afternic / GoDaddy, Sedo, Uniregistry and Undeveloped. All for BIN.

Before I used Flippa as well, but only one BIN sale in three years. Not worth it (for me).
 
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I prefer afternic and Flippa,

Ive never managed to sell anything through sedo, personally i think they suck
 
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Someone tell me they have sold at igloo.com? Bet it's a FAT Zero.
 
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I find this discussion really helpful and good guidance for us just starting.

In the first few months of active domain selling, all at the low end with new gTLDs, I have used the Namecheap Marketplace since there is no cost if it does not sell, the commission is reasonable, and the process is really simple when your domains are registered there.

I also list the domains on my own website (http://namesthat.win) and then link to the listing at the Namecheap Marketplace.

I am looking at one of the other options for a few domain names I regard as more valuable, however, and the advice has been really helpful.
 
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I find this discussion really helpful and good guidance for us just starting.

In the first few months of active domain selling, all at the low end with new gTLDs, I have used the Namecheap Marketplace since there is no cost if it does not sell, the commission is reasonable, and the process is really simple when your domains are registered there.

I also list the domains on my own website (http://namesthat.win) and then link to the listing at the Namecheap Marketplace.

I am looking at one of the other options for a few domain names I regard as more valuable, however, and the advice has been really helpful.

How do you cope with the fact that namecheap ends the sale every few months? (3 I think it is)..

I always found that really irritating since I tend to keep my domains for sale for as much as I can (just a couple of days ago I sold one I owned since my first days in domaining, that is 4 years ago)

nice site btw ;)
 
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I actually usually list mine for 7 or 15 days, and just periodically check and relist the domain names that did not sell. I suspect that some people just glance at the ones that are near the top, as opposed to searching, and so that helps to keep them near the top. I find it so easy to relist them for sale it is worth it to me.

I do wish that the Namecheap Marketplace search was a lot faster, as I suspect many potential buyers give up. Also, if they integrated the Marketplace with their general domain search, so if one was on the Marketplace it would not just say unavailable but actually take it to the listing would be a lot better.

Thanks for the compliment on the website, Hypersot! I think it's getting there, I keep making little additions every few days.
 
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I use parking inquiry, godaddy auctions, and here mainly. My best inquiry offers come through email or bodis.
 
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Page itself (its design) don't matter at all.
The only one important factor - a possibility for potential buyer to contact you...
 
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Via Bodis panel - you may even redirect all traffic to the inquiry page... if monetization is unnecessary for you.
 
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Page itself (its design) don't matter at all.
The only one important factor - a possibility for potential buyer to contact you...
*design doesn't matter

Regarding Sedo...
95-99% of their users are just another domainers like you.
 
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Many people see success with bodis.
 
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Many people see success with bodis.
That's great, but that'll just be type in traffic I assume? Not found on a marketplace such as uniregistry etc.
 
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