discuss GD, Sedo, Afternic, DNS & Buy Now vs Make Offer

[pokainc]

Hi Guys & Gals
I know some of these issues were touched upon on other threads, but perhaps we can put it in one place and be platform specific. If you can answer in the format 1... 2... 3... 4.... 5.... it can help people go through the info easily

Any feedback is appreciated, if you believe another question should be added send me a PM

So here's my questions:

1 - Which platforms are resulting in fairly consistent sales?

2 - More sales are resulting from Make Offer or Buy Now prices?

3 - What prices generally speaking do you usually put that are resulting in sales?
(if possible, domain type specific: Brandables around 1800$ amount, Keyword specific 1299$ amount)

4 - In terms of the bottom line, which method is raking in more, Make Offer or Buy Now
(sometimes Buy Now may result in more sales but rarer Make Offer sales may bring in more)

5 - Have you noticed that one platform tends to sell certain type of names as opposed to another platform (example brandables on Godaddy and geo names on sedo 4L on Afternic or DNS)

 

[pokainc]

Nobody wants to contribute? this can be useful for newbies and people with experience.

I'll go first..

1- Most of the sales I'm getting from landers (testing DNS at the moment -> but had deals with efty and undeveloped also). Outbound Sales happen also but for whatever reason, been tough the last couple of weeks
2- most of my names are make offer, never really had sold too many at "buy now" (perhaps I should price it lower)
3- depending on the quality, up to 500$ seems to be most of the sales, but the ones that you "know" are worth more are going for 2k or more.
4- In my case Make offer or landers are the ones generating more revenue
5- I haven't noticed myself any specifics

 

[ksusha64]

Great idea to post this. Selling domains is the biggest issue all domainers face. I am glad you started this post.

 

[Name Trader]

I only have Make Offer sales offers. Sedo is consistent with selling 1 domain a year. GoDaddy used to be at least 50% of my sales yearly. But now they are linked up with Afternic, almost every GoDaddy enquiry now comes thru Afternic. GoDaddy/Afternic represented about 65% of my sales last year (from memory). Sales from my own website/whois enquiries represents about 25% of my sales. I don't have any specific niches which sell well. Prices range from $1k-$5k, and clustered around $2k-3k. The %ages are in numbers of domains, not value.

 

[Debt.tv]

I list my domains on sedo make offer but 95% of my sales are from outbound end user emails.

 

[alcy]

it'll all depend on domains you have as always, but I tend to agree that sedo is just plain a waste of time for makeoffer only, for the average domainer... unless me and Stub are exceptions.
it's actually borderline ridiculous for me as I have not even had a single offer on sedo last year. while tens of offers on flippa and gd.

 

[pokainc]

I agree with the sedo make offer reference with no leads at all..I almost never get any offers there...

 

[alcy]

its really an incredible stat if you think about it. how is it even possible to receive tens of offers on GD and flippa and zero on sedo.

 

[Name Trader]

@alcy - It happens to a lot of us. It seems.

 

[4better]

1. Sedo & GD are the platforms that made considerable sales for me. Only a few at Flippa. No luck at Afternic as I only listed around 20 domains there from the more than a thousand domains that I've had (too lazy to do or just plainly do not have the time. After all, domaining is just a part time hobby). Haven't tried DNS as well. However, I do have a few outbound sales too (around 10% positive result but time consuming). Again, my problem is time. Just have less time for all of these.

2. All my sales are in Make Offer. Just don't have luck in Buy Now (presumably because I have very, very few buy now listings).

3. Sales are always in the range of $xxx to $x,xxx. Some brandables, some two-word domains (dot com), single/dictionary word for cctlds/new gtlds.

4. Make offer rakes more. However, on several occasion, I lost a few good deals. Offers coming in up to $x,xxx (like $2,500, $1,500 or GBP 1,000) for domains I bought only for less than $100 or reg fee. Yet I desired more (my mistake) and those buyers later cancelled their offers (all at Sedo).

5. Most of my offers from Sedo are those in the two-word (dot com) domains.

 

[pokainc]

I referenced to the following in another related thread which is that someone close to me who is successful in business told me, if you have a realistic price in mind and have 75% of that amount offered to you, take it and move on! I would even say 50% sometimes if the amount was already a high one to start.

Had a 350$ offer for a name the other day that I wanted 1k for. Buyer moved to 500$ but at that point was stretching his budget, ended up not paying despite me saying ok to 500$. If I would've pulled the trigger at 350$ it was a done deal. Had another name opening offer 1000$, but he wouldn't move up, it was EMPLOID.com. That one I really didn't want to sell for 1k, I countered with around 3k, he never answered.. finally I lowered a bit but said he no longer is interested in the name. (wasn't too disappointed on this one as I rather have kept it)

Lately for outbound in my case, I sold some for decent, but other debatable ones I sold anywhere from 100 to 200$, but when you sell 5 of them, on average it's 500$ to 1000$. We often forget the power of volume, I'll be the first one to admit it. If I have 5 names, I don't sell 4 but sell the 5th one for 1000$ I'm happy, but I should be almost equally happy as 5 x 200$ sales which is the new mentality I'm using.

One quick thing I would add, if the opening offer is something you want to accept (if on GD or sedo, you could accept it right away as it's binding anyway, so the buyer has to pay), but for landing pages or negotiations, I would prob ask just slightly more than their offer not to make it seem that you're anxious to sell at that price or that he's offering too much for that name.

 

[RevolutionaryDomains]

Most of my inquiries come from GD and direct contact. Nothing from Sedo in 2015, and zilch thus far, this year. At the moment, I am not using any other platforms, but that may change soon.

While I prefer Sedo for their lower fees, I find they are just too inundated, and perhaps no longer receive the traffic they once had. Additionally, and correct me if I'm wrong, they still refuse to add names reg'd with GD to their MLS, which in the end, hurts everyone, including themselves. IMO.

Forgot to add, my names are a fairly even mixture of Make Offer, and BIN, which for me depends upon the name and my motivation to sell.

 

[alcy]

Most of my inquiries come from GD and direct contact. Nothing from Sedo in 2015, and zilch thus far, this year. At the moment, I am not using any other platforms, but that may change soon.

While I prefer Sedo for their lower fees, I find they are just too inundated, and perhaps no longer receive the traffic they once had. Additionally, and correct me if I'm wrong, they still refuse to add names reg'd with GD to their MLS, which in the end, hurts everyone, including themselves. IMO.

I don't think anyone beats flippa 10% fee. plus if I remember well sedo has this ridiculous 90$ min charge.. which does kill many of the lower priced domain deals for many domainers.

as said before, all my domains are currently makeoffer only, so I'm hoping sedo is at least good to those who have buynow prices set. cause clearly its not working for makeoffer only there. even on some liquid domains I get many offers on elsewhere.