discuss Favorite venue for selling domains?

[HotKey]

Hi guys and gals,

Built up a name base over the last few years. Looking to expand my reach, what is your favorite venue for selling your domains? Why is it your favorite- is it because your most sales occur there, ease of use, payout methods/speed, confidence, turnover rate, listing page, brokerage options etc.

I am going to include a poll, might not have every marketplace/venue conceivable on there.

Thx!

 

[Josytal]

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[HotKey]

FYI...I've been using the voodoo provided contact option the last few weeks (rather than send an inquiry through parked pages to another marketplace) and it has worked well...can't believe after all these years I have just now started using it. No need to use your own email as the interactions are all handled through the voodoo system.

For names that get proven revenue, they will stay with that voodoo system for sure...others will be sent to a 'buy it now' lander at 'x' marketplace. Still looking forward to trying the dnhat system as well.

Can you elaborate, when you get a chance? Re. bolded. What does Voodoo have to do with Afternic? And by "worked well", in what way? Thx Funsky.

Using 3rd party marketplaces outside of Sedo, toyed with Flippa in past, is new to me. Will always be strong believer in keeping a solid base or back-up (ie, hosted portfolio with landers) where any screw-ups are yours to manage, not dependent on others.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Can you elaborate, when you get a chance? Re. bolded. What does Voodoo have to do with Afternic? And by "worked well", in what way? Thx Funsky.

Using 3rd party marketplaces outside of Sedo, toyed with Flippa in past, is new to me. Will always be strong believer in keeping a solid base or back-up (ie, hosted portfolio with landers) where any screw-ups are yours to manage, not dependent on others.

Re Afternic...it may be another thread that I started rambling a bit that had a reference to an afternic issue by the OP that my response had nothing to do with as I missed the Afternic part...it is all running together. It seems after I posted I thought to myself it may not make sense...not sure if there is some crossover here.

So, I've been trying alot of things in the last 6 month and just found the voodoo system is easy to work with once an inquiry comes in (I've been parking with them for years and never tried it). So if I've got a name with a 500 min and bin of 5,000 the buyer has the option to buy it, with the transaction going thru escrow (no choice as they have it set up this way) with it being clear the buyer pays all fees.

If they make an offer, I get an email with all the pertinent info such as (format from a recent inquiry):

Name: David xxxxx
Email: xxxxxxx
Phone: xxxxxx2275
IP: xxx.569.128.160
Location: xxxxxxxxx, United States
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36

I can take that info and email the buyer directly or I can respond through the inquiry manager provided by voodoo. It is anonymous meaning they (buyer) can not see my personal info/email unless I want them to. I give them the option to proceed with escrow or I send them the prices via epik, escrow and/or afternic and let them decide where they would like to complete the sale.

Moving the names between Epik Marketplace, Afternic and Voodoo gives me different info and data as the name ages. I always leave it listed at all the places (including Sedo and Dan) at the same time but only have bin at one place at one time. I've got all data in excel with pricing at each marketplace predetermined (taking commission into consideration). I run through pricing on my top third names every 3 months (just today I raised the price as much as 10,000 on a few names due to recent similar sales) and of course, I had to drop pricing on a few as well. Whew, I need a beer...

 

[HotKey]

Ok that clears that up a bit, lol. And thanks for the details on Voodoo! Agreed with the have a BIN at only one place, I do the same. Aft requires a bin to be listed, whereas so many of the other marketplaces do not. So something to consider if looking to limit one's bin's.

Cheers- speaking of beers, hey how about a Corona?

 

[BrandableDomain]

My vote goes to the incredible Uniregistry Market. The Project Dynamo upgrade rolled out in November, which added more than 50 new features, has made it near perfect.

This is indeed a very sophisticated platform. It’s easy to see why Godaddy acquired it.

It is really cool and versatile. You can self-broker for zero commission. I use BIN (10 percent commission) but set up with automatic broker assist when the buyer wants to connect (15 percent commission).

So all my domains are listed with BIN plus “Submit Enquiry” on the landers. Most of the time buyers contact via the submit enquiry option. So my commissions vary.

At buyers’ requests, I have used Escrow at Uni for 10 sales, one on a payment plan. I have also used Uni’s own in-house payment plan, which is absolutely perfect. Uni handled all the payment and transfer administration. I just received the payments as if it was a normal single transaction.

Thanks to the Uni Market and their professional brokerage team, I have sold 10 domains in the first two months of 2020 for $24,950.

 

[HotKey]

So all my domains are listed with BIN plus “Submit Enquiry” on the landers. Most of the time buyers contact via the submit enquiry option. So my commissions vary.

At buyers’ requests, I have used Escrow at Uni for 10 sales, one on a payment plan. I have also used Uni’s own in-house payment plan, which is absolutely perfect. Uni handled all the payment and transfer administration. I just received the payments as if it was a normal single transaction.

That's great. I enjoy their domain sale presentation to buyers as well, and their interface too. Have inputted several names there for the first time ever, it will be a long-term commitment for me for many of my domains to these various marketplaces, until they sell. Thanks for sharing your own with Uni. Proper handling of monies and transfers is a keeper.

As a related thread, discovered this one which also has excellent input and analysis by many other NP investors, for anyone looking to expand their knowledge on marketplaces:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/sedo-afternic-gd-epik-dan-other.1162239/

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Also, that last post I shared,

Accidentally deleted an email from NameSilo for verifying a fast transfer opt-in for a domain I had added to Afternic. So removed and relisted the domain, to receive the NS email again. But alas, twas not to be. Several times, have I removed and added the name back to Afternic, but nothing is triggering the opt-in email again from NameSilo. It's like you only get one chance or something.

turns out you do get a second chance, by simply listing a new name. Once you receive the opt-in email and click the link, any other domains from NameSilo will also show up on the opt-in list, thus giving the chance to accept. So did so, and all is well.

 

[HotKey]

Spent the better part of the week adding names to various marketplaces. This is a first for me, using anyone outside of Sedo.

A few of the names I tried to add to Afternic and Uni would not allow, coming up with errors. In all of those cases, these were due to the names already being listed! How is this possible? Well, many sellers have done as I am doing, it is old news for them. They listed these names in the past, but never removed them after they no longer own the names.

This is why it's important to keep track. Track your crap. Don't make someone else scoop your poop.

So here's what I've learned as far:

• Sedo continues to be somewhat annoying, in terms of DN verification. But they are steady and true.

• Epik landers are by far the most appealing AND usable I have seen.

• Uniregistry chat support took care of delisting defunct names from the system AND adding them to my account immediately. ++

• Afternic support via email took care of delisting defunt names so that I could add them, but took quite a bit more effort and time. However they got it done.

• Afternic landers are horrible, there is no indication on them that the domain is avail for purchase other than contacting Afternic. As such, I have decided to use Epik for almost all of my nameservers. Make Offer only.

• Dan is interesting. All names listed on there, will see how things progress.

• Using Afternic as my sole Buy Now, though domains will only be found via an internal search. All other marketplaces with the same names set as Make Offer.

• Have not listed anything on Namesilo, Flippa or Dyna yet. I have bought names using Flippa in the past though.

Will continue to use my own portfolio site for majority of my domains, as in the end I really believe "Pride of Ownership" shines through this method, though I believe the method is more suitable for long-term holds where patience is key, for the discriminating buyer so to speak.