Do domain showcase sites have any value?

[TheFifty9Sound]

Greetings,

I would like to get opinions based on thoughts or previous experience on setting up little microsites that showcases all the domains you have within one niche. For example, you might have 30 names around Carpet Cleaning, and you could forward them all onto carpetcleaningdomains.com where all your names are listed.

On one hand, I've always thought it a little tacky and felt it devalues the names in some way, but on further introspection I'm not really sure what drove me to this conclusion, or if it has any basis whatsoever.

What is your experience with this approach and has it anyone had any success with these types of microsites? I'm wondering if a customer might arrive looking for domain A and end up buying domain B, or perhaps both, or if you're able to create extra confidence in the buyer by building a little bit of a brand around your site.

 

[Name Trader]

It depends on what you mean by success. I've sold a few domains this way, but not for huge bucks that you can ask on Sedo, Afternic et al.

 

[TheFifty9Sound]

Do you feel it got any eyeballs on your names that they wouldn't have had otherwise?

 

[Name Trader]

Nope. As far as I could tell it was all direct navigation traffic to my domain names. I never checked if they checked out other domains whilst they were there. I would add, that these sales were the lowest percentage of sales/domains of any venue. IE: The lowest successful venue of all the venues I use. But anyway, I was happy with the sales

 

[TheFifty9Sound]

Sweet, that's helpful feedback. Thanks mate!

 

[biggie]

it would probably be better, if you just had a 'portfolio' site and 'categorized' by subject.

'link' each domain, either to your email, a sedo sales page, or any other service to handle the correspondence. include some adsense, and perhaps some brief 'biz model content' for the names, then launch.

my site has been online since 2002, has some pr, backlinks, a couple of 'paying' links, along with earning a few dollars every month from adsense that pay renewal fees.

imo...

 

[New2Domaining]

@biggie - Would you elaborate a little on 'biz model content'? Do you mean some brief text describing how the name could generate revenue or are you referring to something more?

 

[biggie]

@biggie - Would you elaborate a little on 'biz model content'? Do you mean some brief text describing how the name could generate revenue or are you referring to something more?

'bmc' refers to ideas for what the domain could be used for.
ie: pmm.org > some potential usage models include, public mobile media, prescription medical marijuana, private multimedia etc.

imo...

 

[SpareDomains]

it would probably be better, if you just had a 'portfolio' site and 'categorized' by subject.

'link' each domain, either to your email, a sedo sales page, or any other service to handle the correspondence. include some adsense, and perhaps some brief 'biz model content' for the names, then launch.

my site has been online since 2002, has some pr, backlinks, a couple of 'paying' links, along with earning a few dollars every month from adsense that pay renewal fees.

imo...

Ditto, just make a general portfolio site and categorize them all. If I made micro sites I'd have 100+ as I have a few domains in quite a few categories. If the domains make parking revenue just have the sales link on the parking page redirect back to your domain sales site, if the domains don't make parking revenue then maybe redirect straight to the sales lander.

 

[DnEbook]

I just added pages to the site in my sig …..not a dedicated sales site but it's out there at least