How many of you guys have your own site for selling domains?

[stocks]

Just wondering wow many of you guys have your own site for selling domains?

And if so is it worth it, do you sell many more domains because of the site.

By the way I'm in the affiliate industry so setting up a site and everything is not a problem for me but if I wanted the site to rank then content would probably be a problem.

 

[Name Trader]

I have my own (not so great) website. My sales in 2014 were basically evenly divided between my Private Sales and Sales via GoDaddy. I list also on Sedo and Afternic, and all my parking pages have For Sale links. I don't really analyze where my private sales are coming from. They could be from whois, from the For Sale links, or from my website. If I were to hazard a guess. I'd say only about 15% of sales come via my website. I don't redirect domains to my website, but it's on my agenda to do so this year for those domains which don't make their regfee from parking. I'm also going to start analyzing where my Private Sales are coming from. A perennial, is to replace my Domain For Sale website, with something better (although I don't hate how my current site is working) and only list my more premium domains on it. Not including all the rubbish domains. I think the rubbish domains definitely detract from the website quality.

Personally, I think any sale from my website, is a plus. Is it worth it? Probably not. But see comments above, which are contributing to some of my website's poor performance. I know a few people here who only sell primarily from their own website. The benefits for them, is they can track their customers better without having to deal with anonymous offers coming through from the usual sales venues.

 

[McDuke]

I had two for different domain pages mainly to learn how to build web sites. I skidded them after a while but have plans to resurrect them.

 

[Nattydomain]

I just went live with mine (see sig) last Friday. I am writing articles to be added weekly but my approach is not to go after other domainers but end users, business owners so I write and follow (in twitter) business people.

I will see how it plays out in the next few months.

 

[NameOmnia]

I just went live with mine (see sig) last Friday. I am writing articles to be added weekly but my approach is not to go after other domainers but end users, business owners so I write and follow (in twitter) business people.

I will see how it plays out in the next few months.

Natty is the handsome guy with the posh English accent you yourself?????

 

[nomen]

Unless your site is a professionally developed, modern website, don't bother. Otherwise it's only gonna hurt your sales as the site and the listed domains get indexed which just confuses the potential buyer as they see their desired name on a crappy site.

 

[JudgeMind]

I recently jumped on board with this as commissions from other venues were too high. So far it has paid off, though i am spending a lot of time promoting my site and generating traffic from potential buyers.

 

[JudgeMind]

Natty is the handsome guy with the posh English accent you yourself?????

photonmymind, are you hitting on him, haha

 

[NameOmnia]

I recently jumped on board with this as commissions from other venues were too high. So far it has paid off, though i am spending a lot of time promoting my site and generating traffic from potential buyers.

Yes I think it's either you buy a name or a site with targeted traffic or attracting visitors must be extremely time consuming considering it is quite a niche.

 

[NameOmnia]

photonmymind, are you hitting on him, haha

LMAO I was waiting for that!!!!
The answer is no btw..I am happily taken, almost married and above all gay...so nope..just messing around! :P

 

[JudgeMind]

Yes I think it's either you buy a name or a site with targeted traffic or attracting visitors must be extremely time consuming considering it is quite a niche.

I have maintained the same twitter acct for a couple of years now and have almost 1k targeted followers which have been converting well for traffic, i am going to experiment soon with a few other options for traffic which may work to get startup related traffic to my site.

 

[mad409]

I do both, have parking and the others directed to my site. A Website can't hurt and doesn't need to be that fancy but rather clean and not too confusing.

 

[Nattydomain]

Natty is the handsome guy with the posh English accent you yourself?????

LOL nope. So far away from his looks, voice AND dress

 

[Ms Domainer]

I have my own site, but it's kind of goofy.

I redirect domains (cloaked) to it, but if someone happens to find the site on its own, it doesn't make sense, so I plan to add links to auctions soon.

ContactUsForMoreInformation [dot] com
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It's great when someone accesses it directly through a specific domain name, and I have made some sales through the site, but, otherwise, it's just a head scratcher.

 

[vivaldi]

If you can do it right it's worth it yeah according to my experience. It will require your domains redirected to it or some promotion from your side. To rank it all natural on Google will be very hard and probably not worth it.

 

[nomen]

To rank it all natural on Google will be very hard and probably not worth it.

Yup, close to impossible without an insane amount of work and some money too. A good chunk of (business/brandable/tech/startup/whatnot) domain name SERPs are dominated by likes of Mashable, Entrepreneur, Forbes and other major biz/tech blogs.

 

[shiftaction]

I put up one for myself and others (signature), I'm not really trying to buy and sale but allow others to for free. You basically have to want to take on the man if you want end-users...unless you just put money into advertising which I don't have the advantage of, but any idea is worth it. If nothing else you learn something.

 

[SpareDomains]

Most of my sales over many years have come direct mainly through a parking page sales link redirecting back to my own sites contact form.

I've eliminated parking this year and everything redirects to my own individual sales landers which will increase offers/sales based on small scale testing I've done in 2014. Don't really care about the loss of parking income as I've always made more from actual domain sales anyway. I'm testing some banner spots right now on the landing pages as well to replace the parking income loss and may sell some ad spots direct across the whole network.

So I've always had domain sales sites but 2015 will be the first year I'm going 100% sales landers and ditching parking for my own ads on them. So this will be the most traffic I've ever thrown at a domain sales site as everything will redirect straight to the individual offer forms.

 

[artstar]

i have a site selling my domains for months now however unless u are able to get the site within first 2-3 pages of google search its pointless imho.

its all about traffic and how do u drive traffic to a domain sales site with google ?

domaining is an industry that caters to the big guns who have cornered google ranking

the little guy gets shafted as usual

 

[Doron Vermaat]

I list my brandables at Vibrand.com which is a custom site and the rest at OutOfOffice.domains which is setup in a few minutes with our software tool, Efty.

Since most end-users already know exactly what domain they want or are looking for a very specific domain I personally think good landing pages are much more important than having a consolidated site offering all your domains.