.biz Do .biz Sell?

[bluesinjid]

Hi, I am seeing not a lot of demand for .biz, but was wondering if they do sell to endusers?

Have you sold a .biz yet?

 

[lll]

alot of keyword .biz drop on the regular, i think .biz is only going more and more downhill imo
i own none, had one but sold it for a couple dollars more than reg fee...
depends on the domain as always with any extension!! :\

 

[John Baron]

True , some strong .biz Got sold on very nice figures , but again - most end users will go after .com

 

[FPForum]

I picked one up for $18 and sold it for $500 a few days later..That was around mid-December. Hope this helps answer your question

 

[bluesinjid]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I was asking as I found some popular keywords avail in that extension.

FPForum: Mind sharing the url, or niche?

 

[Ziggery.com]

There's a straight forward answer to it, it just depends on how good of a salesperson you are, period!

 

[mrtvolaw]

FPForum: nice, can you post here name of that domain?

 

[nicedomains]

There's a straight forward answer to it, it just depends on how good of a salesperson you are, period!

It does also depend on the quality of the .biz domain you are selling.

I have some success over the years selling .biz domains. The most I've ever spent on a .biz was $70. I resold that domain several weeks later for mid $xxx. If you are going to go after .biz domains, be very selective and don't spend very much IMO.

 

[garptrader]

I sold one for $100 a couple of months ago and received a mid $XXX offer for another in December. I now have fewer than ten .biz domains but as others have stated you need to be extremely selective. One rarely sees .biz domains make the DNJournal sales report.

 

[think]

I've sold quite a few 3 letter biz to small biz end users in the mid $xxx to low $x,xxx range but sales have been very slow for about a year now. Hoping it will pick back up this year along with the economy....

 

[bmugford]

I have sold several .BIZ in the last year. Several in the $X,XXX range.

You need really good terms to make end user sales.

Brad

 

[FPForum]

The name I sold was in the adult niche. I would rather not disclose the name cause it was purchased by another webmaster, not a business or anything.

 

[Kate]

There's a straight forward answer to it, it just depends on how good of a salesperson you are, period!

If you can sell ice to the Eskimos, you can sell .biz domains

But I think it also depends what kind of end users you'll be targeting and their location, as there are many countries where .biz is even less popular than America.

 

[murrc2]

.biz is like .info etc if you have a keyword domain and its what people want you may be able to sell it. But of course most endusers will go for .com.

There is no harm in buying a .biz if it is generic

 

[tetrapak]

I picked one up for $18 and sold it for $500 a few days later..That was around mid-December. Hope this helps answer your question

I did the same but with a regfee .biz ($8 -> $500). In all honesty, I find .biz as a rather poor extension nowdays. I would in 99% of the cases go for .info if I had to choose from the two.

 

[enlytend]

Congrats to everyone on the nice sales! A couple of years ago, I sold one for 2K, 1 for mid xxx and another for low xxx (200? 250? I forget). All 3 were hand regged and for all 3 the buyer contacted me.

That said, I've sold a lot more .com/.net/.org's! Don't waste your time on mediocre names or names that don't fit the extension.

 

[Robin]

Yes they are. The needs to have good keyword.