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[Cryptoearn.co]

I listed a domain for sale for the past 6-7 months. A few days back I listed it again with lowest at 1$.
In total, I got 3 bids 2,4,6
Now top 2 bidders have declined the offer and my domain is expiring on 4th Oct.

What should I do?
I am not going to do any domain selling.

 

[namemarket]

Well no doubt vast majority of end user sales are in .com, but I think .co is being looked at as alternative, especially when .com is essentially unavailable. Re one word vs two, there are no doubt more than a dozen one word .co sales for every two word, but some do sell at decent amounts. Looking only at last year here are a selection (not complete) of decent value .co sales on NameBio. I compiled it hoping to see a pattern, which I did not . Bob
OrganicHealth.co $1400 DropShipping.co $2050 GovPress.co $2560 NextThing.co $3000 PolicyBin.co 1000 LoveLetter.co $15,000 MassiveDynamic $1576 CasinoBonus.co $3858 SpreadShirt $2000

Thanks again Bob, the above good prices are surprising to me.

Have not been following the dot-co market or any other country codes and in fact not even looking at the newer tlds that much (except 1) so did not know about it until you referred to .co

Only have 1 dot-co domain however after reading the info you posted on .co maybe I should have more?

 

[bidigitals]

I listed a domain for sale for the past 6-7
What should I do?

A) If YOU find the domain to be worthwhile, the odds are definitely in your favor that it is

B) Listing At Markets? (Google, sedo, etc) ??? Puh-leeze! Way smarter, and faster, to stop and make a list of WHO you think would get most excited about having it. Create a simple email, offering the domain, the price, AND, we also add "We're happy to take 20% off this price if you purchase it by __________

Waiting for someone to call is very successful for ... approx. no one, unless you're investing money to advertise. Scratch that!

C) NEVER NEVER listen to naysayers. There are mostly two people: Those giving reasons it's bad/wrong/can't be done .... and those who suggest ways to get it done. Who do YOU figure is more likely to provide answers that get your brain to produce better answers?

Cheers.

 

[bidigitals]

Buy premium quality names and forget everything. If your name is good, offers will come automatically.

Respectfully not sure I even understand that. As you can see at SweetestDomains.com, for example, we waited years and more years for people to buy our AMAZING domain names, including a couple of thousand one-word delights (half of them invented, lol, but still nailing the rules). Never came close to covering costs.

About 16 years in, only selling occasionally, we sold several .works to one guy in 2017, all of them one-word. Profit was so fat we chose not to sell any others for 2017 and half of 2018. So, when you say "premium," we've seen no one claim that .work is premium, yet... our 2-character and 3-character .work domains have allowed to us to stop selling ANY (want to let charity benefit) until 2025.

More importantly, wanted to respectfully challenge the notion that "offers will come." No sir, they don't. We have dictionary generic words still unsold after a dozen years and beyond. It's only now that we actually write to people and groups MOST LIKELY TO WANT IT... that we're now covering all our other renewal costs. Opportunities are all over the place! Cheers

 

[Laguna]

I have only Two .co
One is keyword+crypto and the other is keyword+coffee
Obviously the .com would of been better but wasn't available.
I know they will go eventually but it's the waiiiiitttttiiiinnnnggg

 

[bidigitals]

The days of selling handregged domains are over.

Ma'am, you seem like a nice person. Respectfully beseeching you not to offer such a terribly negative opinion that is provably untrue.

All 8k+ our of domains are hand-registered, more than 90% are one-word, and ONLY since registering and selling .work domains in 2017 did we ever cover cost of all renewals for all the .com's.

2018 and 2019 are the first 2 years since building first site in 1994 that we're in the black... wait, wait, AND, because we give modest prices, more of our buyers are now repeat buyers. You can see from SweetestDomains that we offer gorgeous one-word .com's, and almost every one we've ever sold ... was NOT because of marketplace or auction listings, instead, it's due to emails we send directly to .... those people/orgs most likely to be desirous of a particular set of domains (we also tend to buy related domains so that we can give freebies when they buy their fave).

Wise of you to adopt the Rick Schwartz approach of only selling occasionally. The charities we each may choose to support will be very very happy 10 yrs from now. Cheers.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Only have 1 dot-co domain however after reading the info you posted on .co maybe I should have more?

I don't want to move this thread off-topic, but my answer (as a definite non-expert on .co) would be not to rush into this or any other area. There are a couple of people on here who have a great track record of selling .co, but I think they have an intuitive knack of what works with that, and there is not a direct carry over of what makes a good .com. Also, with renewals, even though .co have edged down slightly, at the order of $25 per year one needs to be sure on quality to hold. There were amazing .co registration opportunities this summer, and some of us picked up some hoping if even one or two sell we will more than recoup costs.

I would start with following what has sold in .co, at least NameBio reported, as well as searches on what is and is not available to hand register. Then only acquire when you are sure it makes sense, and only when acquisition costs are favourable.

It is hard to find single meaningful word .co to hand-register. If one finds them, I suspect they make sense to invest in at first year registration rates. I think it is really important to look if the .com (and perhaps .org) are essentially unavailable (e.g. someone has it but wants $2 million), if the term is registered in multiple other TLDs, and usually if it is a single word. It is interesting if you look at businesses using the .co, there is much more diversity in types of names than there are in aftermarket sales, I presume reflecting hand-reg by owners of made up or specialized or two word combinations.

Bob
Non-expert in everything, especially .co

 

[bidigitals]

I have only Two .co
One is keyword+crypto and the other is keyword+coffee
Obviously the .com would of been better but wasn't available.
I know they will go eventually but it's the waiiiiitttttiiiinnnnggg

Why wait? Instead of merely listing it at markeplaces, does it not make sense for you to make a list of people/organizations most likely to get as excited about it as you did when you registered it? Short email, with "discount for purchase by ________" ... and bob's yer uncle.

 

[Laguna]

Why wait? Instead of merely listing it at markeplaces, does it not make sense for you to make a list of people/organizations most likely to get as excited about it as you did when you registered it? Short email, with "discount for purchase by ________" ... and bob's yer uncle.

I have thought about it but from what I've read on namepros it's spamming and quite fround upon which is why I haven't done it yet. I do read all the posts on here and a lot of people do outbound and get good results. I will definitely look further into outbound.

 

[namemarket]

......It is interesting if you look at businesses using the .co......

Thanks for all the info and knowledge on dot-co Bob, much appreciated.

A reason I only have 1 .co is have always been worried about traffic bleed going to the .com and giving free traffic to dot.com due to the public thinking .co is a misprint and it must be .com

 

[brandpainvestment]

Your luck also matters dear. Atleast it works for me. I am saying premium names like lll.com, cvcv.com & one word dictionary names (used in normal days).

Good luck.

Respectfully not sure I even understand that. As you can see at SweetestDomains.com, for example, we waited years and more years for people to buy our AMAZING domain names, including a couple of thousand one-word delights (half of them invented, lol, but still nailing the rules). Never came close to covering costs.

About 16 years in, only selling occasionally, we sold several .works to one guy in 2017, all of them one-word. Profit was so fat we chose not to sell any others for 2017 and half of 2018. So, when you say "premium," we've seen no one claim that .work is premium, yet... our 2-character and 3-character .work domains have allowed to us to stop selling ANY (want to let charity benefit) until 2025.

More importantly, wanted to respectfully challenge the notion that "offers will come." No sir, they don't. We have dictionary generic words still unsold after a dozen years and beyond. It's only now that we actually write to people and groups MOST LIKELY TO WANT IT... that we're now covering all our other renewal costs. Opportunities are all over the place! Cheers

 

[namemarket]

Your luck also matters

Agree fully, having good luck plays a far more important role than some may believe or admit. Assuming the names are at least reasonably good It's heavily a numbers game combined with luck, which is why it can take 100 yeas to sell a domain..

 

[Bob Hawkes]

As logical as I try to be with many things, I totally agree with @brandpainvestment and @namemarket that luck definitely matters in domain names. I have sold a few that I never thought would get an inquiry, while many names that I still thought were great, and all the analysis looks favourable, just never get any interest.

That is the frustrating thing about domaining. It is mainly about waiting.

Bob

 

[convertcontent]

I have thought about it but from what I've read on namepros it's spamming and quite fround upon which is why I haven't done it yet. I do read all the posts on here and a lot of people do outbound and get good results. I will definitely look further into outbound.

I wouldn't worry about this being labeled as spam. This type of cold emailing works really well depending on how tech-savvy or entrepreneurial the group is. It's not like winning the lottery though because it's going to work better with lower priced domains. Trying to close a high dollar deal with a stranger you just met isn't likely, but spending up to a grand with a native english speaker isn't unrealistic if you're a good salesman.

I've sold a decent number in the 3-400 price range by emailing people in the first 50 Google SERPS. I personalize the hell out of the email so it's really obvious that a thoughtful and real person is sending the email. I'm also willing to risk using a high quality business email address instead of a gmail account and I flat out lie and position myself as if I used to legitimately work in the industry and I originally bought the domain with the intention of starting a business in their space. And I only send them one domain instead of a list.

Your isp and spam detectors know how many emails you sent. They're used to seeing people who send one million emails per day 365 days per year and far worse. Someone sending a handful of emails is literally nothing, those recipients already get a boatload of irrelevant spam every minute, what you're sending them has a decent chance of genuinely helping their business. What you're describing is sending less emails than a grade school teacher sends to her students' parents whose email addresses have equally no connection to the teacher at first.

good luck

 

[ethienne]

need luck and patience

 

[convertcontent]

need luck and patience

The most accurate and concise comment for this thread.

 

[Omar Negron]

I listed a domain for sale for the past 6-7 months. A few days back I listed it again with lowest at 1$.
In total, I got 3 bids 2,4,6
Now top 2 bidders have declined the offer and my domain is expiring on 4th Oct.

What should I do?
I am not going to do any domain selling.

Sometimes domains just don't sell, even in an auction. It all depends on the quality of the domain name.

Also, I wouldn't auction off a domain name when its super close to expiring. I would rather renew the domain then start the domain auction to avoid any complications.

Goodluck with your domain selling!

-Omar

 

[Fadi H]

The days of selling handregged domains are over.

I totally disagree in here. Brandables are doing very well on market. It's like you said panning for gold but with the right equipment it will get you plenty of opportunities not just a 'piece'.

For a newbie, It certainly can be rewarding but you need to take time and do plenty of trial and error. At the end, If you really believe in it you will make it

Goodluck.