John, where do you normally sell yours? I have a few which I think should be worth at least $500 a piece but when you list them with the likes of Sedo or Afternic they just get lost in the background together with thousands of other rubbish domains which these sites list.
I don't think the problem is finding a good domain name, the major problem is the lack of well organised sites which can bring these domains to people's attention - at the moment the way that these people operate may only be beneficial to those who hold premium domains only. But how about domains like the ones below:
CreditTime.org
FinancialCredit.org
Would you say these domains are cr@p or pigeon sh*t (as our friend puts it) ....? I wouldn't say so myself, but why aren't domains of this nature finding buyers that easily? If I were managing Sedo, it would be a different story all together for all the domainers!
Because Sedo and Afternic do not do your job for you, all they are for really is to show someone that someone else has bid so that they can put more of their childrens inheritance on the table.
I wouldn't say those domains are pigeon shit but there are literally millions of domains floating around out there so buyers can afford to pick and choose...why should they pick yours to buy? What benefits will buying your domain as opposed to someone elses give a business?
People do not care about you, they only care about how much money or exposure your domain will give them, and shoving two words together because they sound nice is not going to do anything for them, all they care about is the bottom line so you have to show them the black ink.
What does "Credit Time" even mean?
If I was walking past a store front and I saw that I would think "um, okay...yeah, whatever" and carry on walking.
Contrast this with one of my pick-ups a couple of days ago; "Injury Law .info" and I am sure you can see the difference, the words go together perfectly and everyone can see exactly what business would own it even if all there was for advertisement was a bit of a billboard.
I would not even have to hardsell it, I can walk up to pretty much any solicitor in the world and say "I have
injury law for sale" and watch them sprain their wrist cutting me a cheque simply because people associate the two words together with all the advertisement on television, in the newspapers and everywhere else; they do not even have to think about the connection.
Thats the thing I think you are missing, you are not giving anyone the wow factor, you are not getting them excited about how much money they are going to make from owning the name after you.
Sedo and Afternic will not market your names like this, all they do is list and it is up to you to go out and tell people how phenomenal your domains are.
Heatsinks cool down your CPU, yet if you bought the domain "Frosty Heatsinks" you would still lose money because while people may think it is a clever name at the time they are going to forget you and simply go to computers.com
Forget clever names and shoving practically unrelated words together and go for those that sound right together
Put yourself in someone elses shoes for a minute; someone who is probably up to his eyeballs in debt, whose wife kicked him out of bed at 6am, who fell over his 9 year old sons skateboard at the top of the stairs this morning and almost killed himself and they find themselves looking at an email from someone they do not know asking for $500 for a business domain that isn't the best in its field, it is not in the best extension even for that business and more than likely bears absolutely no relation to their existing name and will not help one iota except to drive customers to other companies. Now, what do you tell the person on the other side of the world?
