How long to sell a domain on average?

[shiwal800]

Ive had my domain names for sales for two weeks now and despite a few visits to the offer page I have not sold. The domains are ok and I didn't expect them to sell straight away but it really is a test of patience. They are on sedo by the way. I don't know if I should activate sedomls prenimum. I tried that but my domain names have not been on name.com for 60 days yet.

 

[Kate]

It could very well take years. But if the names aren't good enough they will never sell. Plain simple.
If you are not patient, you will not like domaining.

 

[dnrevolution]

Shiwal, there is not necessarily an instant or automatic buyer for any domain, no matter how good it may be.

The options open to you are:

1. If the names are good enough, contact a broker to try and sell them.
2. Auction them through Sedo, or another auction style venue.
3. Try to sell them to individual buyers by contacting them direct.

The other option, which isn't really about selling per se, is to develop the domains and, potentially, achieve a much higher sale price because then you're selling as a business.

Good luck,

 

[N-A]

Average sales time: 2.4 minutes

Seller: GoDaddy
Buyer: domainers with coupons and consumers

(@sdsinc summed up the answer to your question quite well)

 

[tomcarl]

It depends on your name. Your name is not guaranteed to sell in any set amount of time, might not sell at all. You should first post it in the appraisal section and see what other domainers think. Could be helpful since you are just starting out.

 

[skaggmo]

Be prepared to hold domains for years. I have been at this since 2004, owned about 200 names over the years, still own about 40, sell about 20 or 30 a year, usually for not much, but sometimes I get lucky. I do this part time. At the end of the year, tax time, I usually end up where I spent $500 on domains and hosting, and made about $5000 or $6000 on domain sales ($2000), Adsense ($1500), link sales ($1000), affiliate programs ($1500).

Sometimes you can flip them right away, but mostly it doesn't work out that way, and sometimes you just have to let them go for cheap. Domaining is a lot of work. You have to really study. Study domain auctions and learn how to define a valuable name (EMD's, TLD's, LLL's, PR, DA, PA, age, traffic, content, amount of searches), and how to verify that stuff, learn what makes a domain name valuable, the best places to buy cheap, and the best places to sell, how to market to end-users, how to market to other domain investors, how to build a money-making website- even if it just makes $10 a year in the meantime so you don't have to spend money on reg-fees, start writing articles about things you know, get some Adsense on there, get your link on some other sites- make your domain worth more.

Most of the time, I'll spend $1 to $25 for a name I think I can get $100 to $10,000 for. But I only get $30 or $50. Then, I'll sell one I thought was worth $50 for $350. You just never know sometimes. The more you hang in there and keep trying different things, the better you will get at it.

 

[webm]

Most of my domains get sold in my third year of obtaining, AKA after the second renewal.

 

[domainbartender]

A couple of years on average. I still have some domains I regged back in 2008.

 

[RapidNames.com]

i'm new to domaining. sold few domains in XXX offers (reg fee domains).

plan to hold all my btc related domains for years if btc is in up...

 

[Chirag]

well all my USD XXX worthed sales were within first year of registration. But then I usually let most of my domains expire rather than renewing all of them. So maybe i missed some domain sales because of not renewing them.

 

[biggie]

sold a domain this year,

that i had it since 2003

so if you want bigger profits,

then i say patience, is the key.

cuz I didn't contact nobody...

I just waited, until they contacted me.



imo....

 

[matrigaldo]

Domaining = patience.

Remember this.

 

[Helmuts]

sold a domain this year, that i had it since 2003

so if you want bigger profits, then i say patience, is the key.

congratulations on the sale

fancy sharing some details on the sale?