question $100 offers on your domains. What's the Secret?

[WhoaDomain.com]

What's the best way to get at least $100 offers on your domains @ marketplaces to get the ball rolling?

Ideas wanted. Thanks.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Bad idea. That means you are going to accept the low amount of $100 as the reserve, minus Sedo commission ($60) = $40 net in your pocket. And if your best names cannot command higher opening offers, you're doing something wrong. Get a $1000 offer at least.
Auctions are unlikely to fetch high prices unless:

• the domains are very liquid so many domainers will take part
• or there is a large pool of end users ready and willing to pay $$$$ (but hardly anybody follows the auctions on the domain marketplaces, only domainers)

Obviously my idea has a downside risk as with anything in life. So it would be smart for anyone who might take my idea and try it to make sure they try this idea on domains they feel at least 50% confident with.

The kind of domain that's at least worth $100 to somebody or maybe a few or more. But if that $100 could be turned into a free sedo auction push and get it on a high traffic marketplace and maybe use the money saved from not paying for a sedo auction to pay for a featured listing?

Perhaps there's a good chance it will sell for higher than $100?

Imo

https://www.namepros.com/threads/sh...n-to-push-it-to-auction.1005683/#post-6037069

Thanks Kate

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

$200 ?
You have to make your time worthwhile. I don't sell in that range.

Auctions totally depend on timing, exposure and attendance (again: domainers...).
I'd rather accept a high offer from an end user right away, than bother with an auction that is going to be fueled by domainers.

Good names eventually get good offers.

Maybe! Lol in this "game" I keep hearing "you can sit and wait for a whale or pay your bills and feed your family".


I think my idea is a compromise between the two.
Plus recently just hit 10k connections and rising.

One of them has to be an end-user to some of my domains.

Sure has boosted views on my auctions.

It's basically marketplace auction vs. outbounds to endusers.

After reading tons of negativity about spammers and the perception by the general public towards outbound email marketing. Outbounds just doesn't seem appealing anymore .

Maybe it works for some but that's probably because they aren't emailing random strangers.

See that word "eventually" is like a sharp "stone in the shoe" for me lol.

It's too vague. I mean can you set your alarm clock to "eventually". How?

Some of us don't have the luxury or simply the patience for "eventually" or for that one buyer with deep pockets coming the darkest reaches of Afternic. Of course if you have awesome domains parked they pay for themselves and even then some pros say "don't park" as it ruins domain value in rankings.

Auctions are more concrete. Start to finish with end result. Bad or good still an end result. It's really the litmus test for all domains. If it doesn't sell or just sells for $100? Then so be it. If no bids? Drop! Don't renew!

Some domains were kept by domainers for this "eventuality" you speak off only to drop because sometimes the trend of the domain they chose has fizzled out.

And many I've seen have invested in trend niches.

Also domain auctions are "high pressure" situations created by the "expiration date" of the auction. Impulse buy is greater.


Thanks Kate .

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Which auction platforms u prefer ?

Which ever one nets the highest bids. Which from NB is almost always sedo. Sure GoDaddy has the most sales but they seem to only show their expired auction results. I think their biggest sales are maybe under NDA? Who knows! But on NB so it seems sedo has the highest sales time after time.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

The secret is no secret handreg decent name godaddy auctions make offer no price. normally equates to $100 offers.

Even better if you reg at special prices like 99 cents or $1.99

 

[Tia Wood]

We as a COLLECTIVE should make $100 offers on our friends and neighbors domains on NP not for the purpose of Shill bidding but for the purpose of maybe taking the chance to Grab a domain maybe worth $xxxx or $xx,xxx in the future for only $100 (if no other bids)

You are confusing sometimes. I'm not sure what you mean by this at all? Can you elaborate?

 

[Tia Wood]

But the point of this thread was assuming the domains were mediocre to decent to borderline "suck".

What secrets do you guys have to get AT LEAST A $100 OFFER?

Any success?

Of course great domains sell themselves this is obvious. Let's exclude those domains for sake of conversation.

But as they say one man's garbage is another man's treasure.

As evidenced many times by "head scratcher" domain sales. Like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

The secret is: you're not going to get at least a $100 offer on those domains. Sure, the "head scratchers" happen but it happens too rare to be your only investment strategy.

 

[tldboss]

My only explanation for how he does it is he's Magic Mike Mann. Plus I don't think he works alone so delegation plus people being really professional and on top of what they do. Oh and he's Magic Mike Mann.

yea the magician, just this week alone some names they (him and his team) sold wouldn't get a single bid in NP auction, in appraisal one would be told to drop or told its reg fee

I understand that he delegates, but I think he is really good at running the whole machine, agree the team helps

 

[Tia Wood]

I understand that he delegates, but I think he is really good at running the whole machine, agree the team helps

Agreed. Delegation is a good thing and obviously he is running it well.

 

[Kate]

wow! thanks for that memory lane! and pushtoauction is now being sold for $5000? what happened to it? sounded like a great idea?!?!

so why didn't it work?

I have an idea but why not let the creator answer
@Michael

 

[New2Domaining]

I've tracked most of my outbounds and many never get opened. WASTE OF TIME. I'm convinced Auctions are the best option to have constant monthly sales.

Since you have essentially dismissed outbound marketing as a viable way to sell your domains I'm curious to see samples of what you have tried. Would you be willing to share a couple of domains you tried outbound marketing for and a couple of emails you sent out?

I know this is a bit off topic so feel free to PM me if you prefer.

 

[DreamLife]

We can "expand" this thread to accommodate your question which i think is...

"What's the best way to get a deal going with a $100 incoming offer?"

anyone here want to answer? feel free i won't mind. Thanks.

To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut

The business model of buying domains, take out "true" premiums, brandbucket is not true premiums.

Stove - com true "premium" name ... $50k minimum, if one of my clients owned that name.

Two word domains that people want to buy, for a company name people will pay $2k to $20k for, fairly easily and about 100 times per month with a portfolio of 50k domains.

What does microsoft really do with those EMD domains? Redirect to a product page...whoopie, great business model to sell to them...

Would you really call your company name something like:
"best fitness programs"

Really?? #19 search term in volume ... HORRIBLE Business name... if anyone thinks that would be there business name ... we will see them doing a Chapter 7 very soon.

Now if someone can "market" that name to sell ("bestfitnessprograms dot com") with so called stuff from ClickBank, that is called a affiliate program or indirect MLM type of mess, using search engines to drive traffic to a squeeze page etc BLAH BLAH BLAH ... if that is your business model my advise does NOT apply to you.

FitnessWeb.com is a great TRUE business name...NOT a million $ domain, <KEYWORD>Web.com sell everyday on expired markets for $30 to $200 and can sell for 2k to 20k maybe more.

example: BanWeb.com sold for $100 on gdaddy and RapidWeb.com got sold on FLIPPA for $6k...
used namebio to find my example quickly...so should you use namebio.

That is what I am trying to explain ... if you need more help let me know

My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut



My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...

and they don't even have ppc ads.

 

[BrandChimp]

Great domain sells, bad domains don't.

There is no magic only knowledge.

 

[BrandChimp]

To buy a domain or hand reg a domain for $9 and sell for $100 is a HARD business model,

Take HUGEDomains as the ideal business model.

In the past few days, the acut



My Last thoughts for this TOPIC ... I just did a quick search on what HugeDomain purchased and sold in the past few days.

In the past 3 days, the purchased trasweb-com and sold casinobonuscode-com

casinobonuscode is a EMD and GUESS what, it leads to a Affiliate program/MLM type of page...you must think I have crystal balls ...

HugeDomains paid, $569 on Godaddy Auctions, and probably sold it for about $5000-$7000,

TrasWeb-com has a BIN price of $3,595 ... Tras is spanish meaning "after" in english. Reg Fee cost of $9 for DropCatch to asking price of $3,595. WOW ... great business model. NOT SOLD YET

5 years ago (maybe a bit longer) huge domains had pretty much ZERO domains ... now 3.6 million domains, if you follow other peoples advice ... hmmmm ...

I just purchased the domain: NameSquad trough HugeDomains