Premium pricing on a domain you own?

These are all probably listings by previous owners. I would contact every lister and inform them that you now own the domain and attach a copy of the whois to prove it. And ask them to remove their listings.

perhaps your domain were dropped domain and the previous owner were listed them on those registrars and resellers on amazing prices and they forgot to retract the listing when they not renewing the domain

Thanks for all the insights.

TBH, one of the domains I had previously bought was listed as premium on the registrar I was using at the time when I went to register it, for over £3k but bought it at a normal cost from another. Go figure.

stub said:

These are all probably listings by previous owners. I would contact every lister and inform them that you now own the domain and attach a copy of the whois to prove it. And ask them to remove their listings.

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Great idea, but as I may be selling some of those that are incorrectly listed, it adds at least some plausibility and marketing proof for offers

Do you have the domain listed on Sedo or Afternic? Or perhaps an older listing! In this case, you might want to remove the premium listing

mbuk said:

Great idea, but as I may be selling some of those that are incorrectly listed, it adds at least some plausibility and marketing proof for offers

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I think you would be better off using your own listings for plausibility and marketing, rather than somebody else's listing. IMHO

As a domain that isn't for sale, is there any harm or detriment to it being listed as available? After all, that's not my issue if the vendor makes a sale for something that they don't have ownership of?

If the domains you are talking about in your first post are not for sale. Then I presume you are developing them. Then I would expect you would not want to belittle your development by seeing the domains for sale by somebody else in the search results.

But I thought from your post that they would be for sale. And you don't want confusion in the buyers mind by having multiple listings of the same name for sale.

Either way. It is not good to have your domains for sale in multiple listings and the listing not owned by you, in the search results. Of course, they are your domains. You can do whatever you like with them. If you don't care. Nothing to say. Except to ask "why did you ask the question?"

mbuk said:

As a domain that isn't for sale, is there any harm or detriment to it being listed as available? After all, that's not my issue if the vendor makes a sale for something that they don't have ownership of?

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I think it depends on how much the other vendor has the name listed for. If they list it for less than what you really want, then it could convince a potential buyer the listed price they saw on the other vendor's site is the MAX they would ever pay.

Regards,
DN

@DN_Hunter & @stub

Thanks for the ongoing knowledge and guidance.

I came across the issue as I was looking at the selling of some of my domains and was surprised to find that they were already listed for sale. Others which I'm not selling and have no plans to were also listed, but I couldn't care about them being shown available.

Price wise, if I was made an offer for 60% - 80% of their sale price I would be happy. The middleman has to make a profit of course.

A 4 letter .com, I hadn't thought of selling is shown as available to buy £6k+ ($8k+) and what I think is a pretty good financial .com that I'm happy to move on being offered for £3.5k+ (nearly $5k).

I see those as highly over-inflated prices, but it's a buyers market and I'm happy to take the buyer's money if they want them at those prices

Personally, as I've said upstairs, it's unwise to have listngs in the search results for your domains which listings don't belong to you. YMMV.