How many of your registered domains are not connected to a website?

[Traktorn]

This is just something I'm always curious about.
How many of your registered domains have no website connected to them?

And let's not count the "This domain is for sale..."-generic websites. I count those as not having a website.

Looking at my own portfolio I would say it's about 50-75%. Mostly non-english variations.

What's yours?

 

[johnn]

Why do you want to know or this is just another time wasting thread?

 

[Traktorn]

Ah, the wonderful directness of the internet.

Fair enough;
There are a lot of things I would like to know.
Does adding website to my domain names increases the value of it. Or is it the other way around?

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Why do you want to know or this is just another time wasting thread?

Looks like a perfectly legitimate and interesting question from Traktorn.

 

[Traktorn]

Looks like a perfectly legitimate and interesting question from Traktorn.

Thanks Charles

 

[Charles Sweeney]

This is just something I'm always curious about.
How many of your registered domains have no website connected to them?

And let's not count the "This domain is for sale..."-generic websites. I count those as not having a website.

Looking at my own portfolio I would say it's about 50-75%. Mostly non-english variations.

What's yours?

I think it's a good idea to have a website on the domain. Then you are not just selling a domain but you are also selling a website. Even just one page with some pictures and text. Biggest benefit is it will get indexed on Google.

With AI now, it's very easy to get some good text for a webpage. So it would be very simple, nice text from AI and some pictures.

 

[Traktorn]

That’s a great point! Every single word generated in my sales pages for ---- 100% made by Dynadot.

Didnt add 1 word! still not site, but today’s tools easier.

That's pretty cool.

Do you put your entire portfolio on Dynadot? And have these kinds of "This domain is for sale" on all of them?


Is that better than having a WordPress site on the site? If the idea is to flip the domain.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

That's pretty cool.

Do you put your entire portfolio on Dynadot? And have these kinds of "This domain is for sale" on all of them?


Is that better than having a WordPress site on the site? If the idea is to flip the domain.

I wouldn't use WordPress for a single-page website. In fact I wouldn't use WordPress for anything, I write all my sites by hand. One page of HTML for text and pictures is very easy to write and upload to a host. You could make a simple template for it and use it for all your domains. I imagine a one-page WordPress website would probably be 400 pages of code and sixteen truckloads of Javascript (one of the main reasons I don't use it)!

 

[Traktorn]

That sounds reasonable.
WordPress is a bloated pain, I agree.

And doing so, upload a simple template, would be better than connecting it to a "for sale"-page on (for example) Dynadot?

 

[Charles Sweeney]

And doing so, upload a simple template, would be better than connecting it to a "for sale"-page on (for example) Dynadot?

I can't speak about Dynadot, I've never used them or any holding page. Much much better to have your own website, I would have thought, even if it's just one page with some text and pictures. I would put a "this website is for sale" notice on the page, so you're also advertising it for sale at the same time. I am currently doing that on this site https://regisearch.co.uk/

I used an image to advertise it for sale, didn't want the "this website is for sale" text to get indexed, although I don't know if it would make a huge difference to Google, but as ever with them, you never know.

I've had a few enquiries from it.

 

[biggie]

One page of HTML for text and pictures is very easy to write and upload to a host. You could make a simple template for it and use it for all your domains.

Hi

i've done exactly the same thing, with some variations, as you indicated above.
ie:
sop.net
reusableconstructionmaterials.com
greenfriendly.com

some of those earned a few bucks with w/adsense,

but as domainers, the main directive is to buy and resell, without having to do the extra work of attaching websites/webpages to each name.
also, buyers are interested in the domain, and we sell them, as is.

i wouldn't use ai to create content, because it's redundant across the net.

imo..

 

[Traktorn]

Makes sense,

Smart regarding the image. I'm also paranoid about Google.

Biggie: Sop.net looks nice and informative. Good idea.

 

[Traktorn]

Thanks for the replies and the help!

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Thanks for the replies and the help!

Not bad for a "time wasting" thread!

 

[Charles Sweeney]

i've done exactly the same thing, with some variations, as you indicated above.
ie:
sop.net
reusableconstructionmaterials.com
greenfriendly.com

Good examples!

 

[Traktorn]

Not bad for a "time wasting" thread!

True
To be fair to johnn; When I changed how I asked my question I got waaay better answers. So his comment improved the thread

 

[Charles Sweeney]

To be fair to johnn; When I changed how I asked my question I got waaay better answers. So his comment improved the thread

You're not a dimplomat in your spare time, are you?!

 

[biggie]

When I changed how I asked my question I got waaay better answers. So his comment improved the thread

Hi

+1



imo...

 

[DomainRecap]

As Tony Twitter says, spending time developing websites for your "for sale" domains is a huge waste of your time that could be better spent searching for new domains, evaluating your current portfolio and responding to new and old leads.

There is no "special sauce" that automatically increases sales - the domain business depends entirely on having an active buyer and he or she will be interested in the domain name for their own specific use, not because of some fancy site you developed to hype it up.

KISS

 

[Traktorn]

You're not a dimplomat in your spare time, are you?!

Hahaha, no, unfortunately not

...

KISS

Good points

 

[Charles Sweeney]

As Tony Twitter says, spending time developing websites for your "for sale" domains is a huge waste of your time that could be better spent searching for new domains

I've had much better results from developing domains than simply selling names only. In any case, just putting up a page of pictures and text using a simple template and AI for the text will only take an hour, which for me is a pretty good investment, it will get indexed on Google and get visited.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

There is no "special sauce" that automatically increases sales - the domain business depends entirely on having an active buyer and he or she will be interested in the domain name for their own specific use, not because of some fancy site you developed to hype it up.

True, but you could get a visitor to such a site who when seeing the site is for sale (if you have such a notice on it) could be interested in purchasing it. If it takes you an hour to put up a simple page of text and images, that could be quite a good investment.

 

[DomainRecap]

True, but you could get a visitor to such a site who when seeing the site is for sale (if you have such a notice on it) could be interested in purchasing it. If it takes you an hour to put up a simple page of text and images, that could be quite a good investment.

I don't believe in a "secret sauce" for a minute and if you have an active and interested buyer with the budget required to purchase your domain, then they will climb mountains to get it. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of hobos and tire kickers.

I don't think that a fancy site can somehow "create buyer demand" for a domain where none existed before - these are very high-ticket items with a microscopic and extremely specific target market, not generic items produced for the unwashed masses like hamburgers or coffee.

No one is going to stop by a premium .COM with a fancy sale site, and think "You know what, I never wanted this domain before, but now that I see this webpage, I'm clearly ready to fork over $5 million for it!".

Domains don't work that way, and if they did then everyone would be using a custom site for each domain name. It's that simple - the market always adapts.

I understand why you do it though, as it's an attempt to regain control of a transactional system where the domain owner has none. We require an interested buyer in order to even get to square one, but that's just the way it is and although it initially made me a bit irritated and looking for 'solutions', over time I have come to accept this fact.

 

[Patryx]

If you want to resell your domain name you need to make it knowing... spread the verb. To spread the verb on intenet means e-marketing. Then, a simple website, one page that has your www. (domainname). (somewhat) is the first step for e-marketing. On that page you can give different types of information about the domain name, its possible use, your direct contact or the link to an aftermarket where you sell the DN.
Have care to rank well on Google, use keywords, get backlinks from social, use ads, etc.
Those are the basic criteria for selling online.

On the contrary, if you consider domaining like trading, you only have to buy and resell, list, and agin buy and resell, search the worst names at the lowest price to resell them at the highest possible price. You don't care about end users, you don't care about websites, social, etc. Only buy the worst name, price it high, list it on aftermarkets and forget it. it will live a life of its own if it deserves it. And if you have been good at choosing, you will gain, otherwise you will fall disastrously.

 

[Patryx]

I don't think that a fancy site can somehow "create buyer demand" for a domain where none existed before - these are very high-ticket items with a microscopic and extremely specific target market, not generic items produced for the unwashed masses like hamburgers or coffee.

WOW! That is a social point of view... philosophical.

No one is going to stop by a premium .COM with a fancy sale site, and think "You know what, I never wanted this domain before, but now that I see this webpage, I'm clearly ready to fork over $5 million for it!".

Not, but if someone searches on a Registrar the keywords he wants in his DN, and the Registrar shows "it's taken" and proposes other similar solutions.. maybe a user will take one of them at a lower price.
But if he knows where is a DN with the keywords he wants, probably he will buy it, if the price is reasonable.
The website serves to let a greater number of people know where to buy the domain you own

I understand why you do it though, as it's an attempt to regain control of a transactional system where the domain owner has none. We require an interested buyer in order to even get to square one, but that's just the way it is and although it initially made me a bit irritated and looking for 'solutions', over time I have come to accept this fact.

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