advice Whats a good sell through rate?

I have read on this forum that a rough guess average is 1-2% a year across all domains including .com. So if you have 100 domains, expect to sell 1 or 2 year on average. As it's an average it's entirely possible to not sell any for a few years. Non .com domains must be way harder to sell. Looking at latest sales, most are .com, so the expect a very low sell through rate for non .coms.

It also depends on the type of domains, how good they are, etc. A $100,000 domain would likely take much longer to sell than a $100 domain.

What counts as a sale? Does buying a $10 domain and selling it at auction for $1 count as a sale? I guess technically it does, but it's not a good sale.

Domainers that sell regularly seem to have 100s or even 1000s of domains.

The same rate as for .com - if we are talking about 1word domains.

Ok thanks for the reply

What sales do you think a domainer with a smaller portfolio (20-50) could expect on a given year?

The 1-2% of names sold can easily be increased people buy hold ask top money till last few days clear what can and drop when same names are bought again and end of the day real no effort was given. Manage your time do not worry about what is expiring renew or drop make a decision now and worry only about what you have the time to work on.

Mark Umansky said:

What sales do you think a domainer with a smaller portfolio (20-50) could expect on a given year?

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Zero unless one name pulls the customer. The lure of top quality domains may bring you traffic but people with lists of hundreds will fair a far better chance. Also depends on how much time you have there is a curve as more domains will bring more enquiry you need to balance that. I will say around 500 suits me fine as enough to bring regular enquiry multiple niches may need a lot more names but that makes more work to.
You have to balance part time I would think around 1500 domains would be most a full timer should have running solo.

That's very informative, thank you! I'm just starting out here too so I appreciate any and all advice and suggestions you may have to offer. Seems like a big part of this is a numbers game.