discuss How skeptical are buyers towards 60 day locks & lesser-known registers?

[MrMDMF]

Those who have made sales before the 60 transfer lock had expired, what’s your experience with telling the buyer they either must make an account with the register that the domain is currently held at, or, they must wait until the 60 day lock has expired to allow transfer to the register of their choice?

I’m thinking about registering all my future domains with namecheap has they have the best prices. However, I’m wondering how buyers react to making an account with a company they’ve potentially never heard of.

I plan on telling buyers that transactions will be made through Escrow Domain service for added security and trust. So that will hopefully put buyers at ease. But what of the other factors?

 

[Optixgroup]

I think the venue is crucial here, more so than the registrar. When I’ve sold 60-day locked domains through a larger market, buyers are generally understanding. This is an area where if you’re trying to self-broker, use your own landing page, or use a lesser known market in trying to reduce commissions that explaining the 60-day lock to the customer becomes an uphill climb.

 

[pb]

NameCheap is #2 registrar right after GD, I wouldn't worry too much about that. I'd worry more if it was spaceship.com (even if it's owned by namecheap) or sav. Just tell them they will be transfer after X days from the transaction as it's a lock on the registry level that cannot be bypassed. Any registrar should have this info on their support pages, so link to that as well.