How many offers do you receive from the markets monthly?

[mpls]

Hi guys, how many offers do you receive every month from markets like sedo / afternic / uniregistry / go daddy auctions / etc. ?
I haven't any luck with these platforms, my numbers in a year (not in a month) with them are:

Sedo : 1 offer, 0 sales
Afternic: 0 offers, 0 sales
Uniregistry: 0 offers, 0 sales
Go daddy auctions: 0 offers, 0 sales.
Parking inquiries: 0 offers, 0 sales (plus, 1 year earning from parking is: $ 2; LOL!!!)

For me these markets do not work, end users don't buy on them.
Maybe domainers/resellers, but all domainers/resellers are here on namepros.
What are your numbers?

 

[Marcelos]

How many domains you placed on this markets? And what type of domains it is? One word or more? And in .com or another?
I placed my domains two weeks ago (flippa and sedo), so very short time. No offers yet. Domains in .com .net. .org .info

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I moved my stuff to uniregistry and had 2 offers in 24 hours.
6 in total the last month.
Got an offer yesterday of 1,000,000 on a weed name, the rep emailed me and asked me a price.
I never saw the offer, so quoted $750. They told him $950
I then saw the offer and told them to accept the 1 mil
Turns out it was some idiot with a similar name who wants to work together.
I told the uni guy to stop wasting my time.

 

[stewmath]

ive only got about 50 domains but i have no offers, most of them are parked on sedo but i have them listed for sale on sedo, afternic and flippa and i have no offers. Personally i like my domain names, but it seems nobody else does. lol

 

[biggie]

For me these markets do not work, end users don't buy on them.

if domains can be sold outside of those venues,
then a marketplace isn't necessary to sell a domain

and.....

if your names are not appealing,
then no matter where you list them...they won't sell

imo....

 

[mpls]

How many domains you placed on this markets? And what type of domains it is? One word or more? And in .com or another?
I placed my domains two weeks ago (flippa and sedo), so very short time. No offers yet. Domains in .com .net. .org .info

All type of domains, in all marketplace (sedo, gd, afternic, uni):
5 L pronunceable and brandable .com
.net
70/80 1 word .club (like everything, blink and other super strong, ONLY 1 word) + 3L
70/80 1 word .top (like archive, wicked, aerobic and other super strong, ONLY 1 word)
Few 1 word .co
Few 1 word .me
NNN .io
Few .xyz, obviously 1 word.
A 1 word .pro
Super strong adult domains, most of them 3L: XXX.newGTLD and 1 word keywords like blow***, squ*** and so so on in newG.
Dropped all newGTLD (in perfect combination domainname.extension)
Dropped all .org.
I don't have crappy domain, I'm sure about that. Of course I don't want an offer everyday in $ X,XXX.
But it's ubelivable and super strange NEVER receive an offer (only 1 in a year: $ 99 and STOP) on my names after > 1 year.
These markets, in my opinion, does not work. Maybe they work if you have liquid domain (LL / LLL / LLLL .com and ONLY .com) but if you haven't these kind of domain is quite impossible.
You can have luck, no boubt, but with luck you will never create/grow up your business.
I can only buy a cup of coffee with the $ 2 earning with parking in all 2016 ( $ 2???? LOL ).
Now guys:

- How many offer do you receive every month with these markets?
- What type of domains receive offers? 1 word .com? 2 words .com? Liquid? NewG? cc? NNN? Pinyin?
- Do you make SALES on these markets? (sales = $ X,XXX. Money you can LIVE or pay your flat rent/car/dentist, not $ XX or $ XXX you can pay only a dinner at resturant).

Thanks

 

[SpareDomains]

Just a few every month from Sedo and Afternic as I don't park there. I've always used my own sales pages, Bodis sales pages or Uniregistry sales pages as those 3 options provide offers direct with name,email,phone,ip etc... which is better than anonymous offers. So basically wherever the domain points to is where you will receive the most offers from as most buyers will type a name in to see how it's being used before making an offer. So it's not that a certain market is selling your domains better than another market it's basically where do they point to as that's where the majority of offers will originate from. If I point to my own sales landers most of the offers come from there, if I switch to Bodis sales pages most of the offers come from there etc...

 

[Kate]

Super strong adult domains, most of them 3L: XXX.newGTLD and 1 word keywords like blow***, squ*** and so so on in newG.

And what makes you think there is market for adult domains in the first place?

And it's already hard enough to sell good .com.

I don't have crappy domain, I'm sure about that.

Domainers all think they have good domains
But if you have good names you should ultimately make sales. But it's not enough to have 'ok' domains, you need great names. It also takes patience, holding time is usually to be measured in years, not weeks.

These markets, in my opinion, does not work. Maybe they work if you have liquid domain (LL / LLL / LLLL .com and ONLY .com) but if you haven't these kind of domain is quite impossible.

The market for domain names is rather tiny and inefficient, there isn't enough demand from end users, therefore not much liquidity.

Nonetheless the marketplaces do sell domains, sales reports are published every week so everyone can have an idea about the types of domains that are in demand.

In my opinion, the marketplaces (at least those that I tried) do work, but it's what Biggie said: if you have good names, people will think about them, then they will check if they are available, if they are already taken, they may visit them to see if they are used, and if the name is for sale, some end users will proceed with making an offer.
Millions of domains are listed on sites like Sedo etc so it's not surprising that statistically speaking few members are making repeat sales. It all boils down to domain quality.

The marketplace are just facilitators, if your names naturally attract end users you can do without them. You just cannot expect that they will foster demand for names that nobody wants.

 

[Kuffy]

And what makes you think there is market for adult domains in the first place?

And it's already hard enough to sell good .com.

I sold an adult cam domain for $2,000 a few months ago.

 

[alcy]

And what makes you think there is market for adult domains in the first place?

And it's already hard enough to sell good .com.


Domainers all think they have good domains
But if you have good names you should ultimately make sales. But it's not enough to have 'ok' domains, you need great names. It also takes patience, holding time is usually to be measured in years, not weeks.

The market for domain names is rather tiny and inefficient, there isn't enough demand from end users, therefore not much liquidity.

Nonetheless the marketplaces do sell domains, sales reports are published every week so everyone can have an idea about the types of domains that are in demand.

In my opinion, the marketplaces (at least those that I tried) do work, but it's what Biggie said: if you have good names, people will think about them, then they will check if they are available, if they are already taken, they may visit them to see if they are used, and if the name is for sale, some end users will proceed with making an offer.
Millions of domains are listed on sites like Sedo etc so it's not surprising that statistically speaking few members are making repeat sales. It all boils down to domain quality.

The marketplace are just facilitators, if your names naturally attract end users you can do without them. You just cannot expect that they will foster demand for names that nobody wants.

I usually do a daily checkup of namebio.

honestly, I don't eve know exactly how many new domain sales appear DAILY (day after day and every day) on namebio.. for some stupid reason namebio limits things to I think 100 entries...

but even with limitations.. you can hop on namebio every single day and see tons of sales that were made the day before.

most of the stuff there is quality.. and not big suprises.. but some of it can be quite shocking and unpredictable too!

great ressource this namebio. but that 100 entry limit is downer.

 

[garptrader]

I will often see offer page views at SEDO for names but they never result in sales.
At Godaddy most of my names have dozens of offer page views while some have hundreds. Sales are rare.

Recently I set up landers via EFTY and in the last several weeks did receive a number of offers, but most are lowball offers that do not interest me...

11-character .COM (brandable) $1000
10-character .COM (two words) $300
15-character .COM (two-words) $555
1-word aged .COM $10
13-character 2-word .COM $2
1-word .TV $6
14-character two-word .COM $1

In recent weeks through Name Investors shop I received offers...
1-word .COM $500
13-character 3-word .COM $100

EFTY does allow placing minimum reserves for specific domains but I did not have those filters set up initially.

So most offers are not worth responding to and when you do respond with a counter offer they never reply back.

 

[garptrader]

Just received a ~$48k offer for a two-word .COM.
EFTY landers state offers must be in USD but the text is in English.
For visitors who speak little English....
From the IP address I can see they are from Colombia where the exchange rate is ~2900/US$

I sent an email in Spanish informing them we only accept offers in USD. I also placed a filter for that domain to eliminate future lowball offers.

 

[Julio]

In the past I had sold one domain through sedo and received an offer after I left.

Now that I have returned 5 months ago I haven't received an offer yet.

I'm doing something that I didn't do in the past and that's outbound through emails, social media.

 

[slader23]

And what makes you think there is market for adult domains in the first place?

And it's already hard enough to sell good .com.


Domainers all think they have good domains
But if you have good names you should ultimately make sales. But it's not enough to have 'ok' domains, you need great names. It also takes patience, holding time is usually to be measured in years, not weeks.

The market for domain names is rather tiny and inefficient, there isn't enough demand from end users, therefore not much liquidity.

Nonetheless the marketplaces do sell domains, sales reports are published every week so everyone can have an idea about the types of domains that are in demand.

In my opinion, the marketplaces (at least those that I tried) do work, but it's what Biggie said: if you have good names, people will think about them, then they will check if they are available, if they are already taken, they may visit them to see if they are used, and if the name is for sale, some end users will proceed with making an offer.
Millions of domains are listed on sites like Sedo etc so it's not surprising that statistically speaking few members are making repeat sales. It all boils down to domain quality.

The marketplace are just facilitators, if your names naturally attract end users you can do without them. You just cannot expect that they will foster demand for names that nobody wants.

Totally agree with this insight.

 

[Weber]

The overall domain resell market is in decline, imo. I see it in the lower number of views, offers, and sales over the last year or more. It is evident in the decreasing number of reported sales every week. The exception is specific short name categories, which for the most part is a separate market in which most domainers are likely unable to participate.

You would think that with economic positives like the Dow Industrials and others at an all time record high, reportedly low inflation, low unemployment and $20 billion valuations given to 5 year old companies that have zero earnings, that sales of domain names would be healthy, if not booming in all categories, but they're not.

I'm beginning to think that the domain name market might be a canary in the coal mine.

 

[Cdomains]

but that 100 entry limit is downer

I think the same thing every time I check it.

I usually use the filter to keep out what are most likely names bought at wholesale.

It is impossible to filter it completely, but I try to adjust it for what are most likely end user sales.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Up to 10 offers monthly using Bodis and ParkingCrew...

 

[DaveX]

Portfolio: 620 domains

Marketplace Activity:
Primary Marketplace: DNSales now Unireg Marketplace Inquiries per mo: 7-12
Marketplace Offers per mo: 2-4
Marketplace Sales per yr: 3-5

I use more auctions than just putting them out there. I like godaddy, flippa, and sedo paid auctions.

I like flipping some on NP too.

 

[DaveX]

I havent kept up with properly parking the domains but still get offers.

Quality and pricing is everything.

I get more sales under $1000. Its good because those 500-700 sales are usually names I think are great but I know they arent my most liquid.

I combine marketplace, auction and flipping. I really want to do more email and outbound but just dont have it organized. Nor have i neen able to carve out the time. But the few times i have i made sales.

Quality, quality, quality.

I also sell more hand regged domains because i like hand registering alot and my upside potential is great because i pay little to hand reg. I do research the names that i hand reg though.

Thats just me personally. Everyone has their own sort of system.

 

[william ericson]

new to this. i'm still looking forward to a good stat to pitch you guys