Domain Selling Markets - Besides USA, Canada, UK, China

[Pliq]

We all know there's a huge end-user market in the United States, Canada, and now in China (for certain domains). But I was wondering how much success fellow domainers here have had in selling domains to other countries.

Domains selling to companies based in countries like:

1. Dubai
2. Philippine
3. New Zealand
4. South Africa
5. Singapore
6. Brazil
8. Sweden
9. Iceland
10. Ireland
11. Switzerland
12. Thailand
13. Greece

I was finding potential buyers for few of my brandable domains and found few non-US companies. Would it be better to contact these companies and hope to achieve a sale?

How was your experience of selling to non-US companies and what prices you were able to fetch for your domains? What precautions you would suggest to add in email pitch while contacting such companies?

Your input would really help less experienced domainers like me.

Happy domaining

 

[pokainc]

I can say for Dubai, I've tried a few times with almost no success at all. Once in a while I'll get an inbound, but it's very rare and I have fairly high quality Dubai names. I've heard of people who usually live there having 5k-10k sales, but it's tough to find a broker.

besides that I've found selling anywhere outside of US, Canada, UK is fairly tough.. Anywhere that their main site isn't a .com in general my success rates go way down...

I hope others are having more success and can share little insights

 

[Pliq]

Anywhere that their main site isn't a .com in general my success rates go way down...

My thoughts exactly. I also started this thread to get the idea about pricing such domains that can be a good match for companies outside US/Canada/UK.

For instance, there's a tech related company based in Philippine and their website is not up (under construction). They are using .com but with an extra word at the end of their company name. The good news is their main company name is available in .com.

Another thing scares me is that being a tech company they have no business website up and running, but they do have an active FB page.

Any thoughts guys and gals?

 

[GravityEleven]

You forgot Germany.. Germany is a big market (even the biggest ctld market globally, before .co.uk) especialy if you got quality .de domains or general german terms in .com

reg. Thailand, there is almost no awareness of strong domains over there.. they are similar to Japanese with lots of subpar domains even for established businesses and focusing very strongly on .co.th ctlds..

 

[Pliq]

You forgot Germany.. Germany is a big market (even the biggest ctld market globally, before .co.uk) especialy if you got quality .de domains or general german terms in .com

reg. Thailand, there is almost no awareness of strong domains over there.. they are similar to Japanese with lots of subpar domains even for established businesses and focusing very strongly on .co.th ctlds..

Yup, good mention mate. Germany is also an established market for selling domains easily.

But what about other countries where there are possible end users available but with less or no mature domain selling market? Would really appreciate to know what experience fellow domainers hold in selling domains outside these established markets?

Thanks

 

[Name Trader]

I would say 99% of my sales are .com's sold to American companies. Any ventures I've had outside of .com or US companies have been very few and far between. A couple of LLL.US I've sold for $1500. But they were exceptions. .US is generally a flop. Pretty much every other extension is a flop. I should drop everything other than .com and some New GTLD's (mostly for my own use). I'm trying to do that, but it's hard. I just need to be more realistic with these hard decisions. Good single word .anything other than .com are tough to let go.

 

[Pliq]

Thanks for the share y'all.

Considering current tech industry developments, would outreaching to Dubai based companies be a good idea for tech related domains (nothing premium quality, but generic two keyword domains)?