As of now, I am waiting for the 60 days to pass before pitching newly hand registered domains to end users. I would love to be able to sell earlier, but I don't want to risk putting off a buyer when it comes to light that the domain in question was a recent hand registration.
Since many of you seem to flip within 60 days, what are your tactics for hiding that fact from end users?
The reg date doesn't even enter into it, with me. And I've never been challenged or asked about it by a potential buyer.
You don't need to justify anything if they ask, just say something like 'regardless of when this was registered, is it worth my asking price to YOU?' Don't fall into the trap of debating a domain's value simply because it's a fresh reg. All that matters is the domain's use, and value, to the seller and buyer.
Remember: if it's a decent name then it has likely been owned before, for years, and you caught it after it was dropped, or used a dropcatcher. There are something like 80K domains dropping daily, from crap on up to quite valuable names, and their previous owners simply didn't know how to market them, didn't know their value, lost interest, didn't know how to approach end users, died and family didn't know about domains or that they were valuable, there are a thousand reasons why good and very good domains drop all the time.
It might have been an afterthought for someone else, or a lemon to them, but the same domain to you could be a gold mine, or at least a nice evening out on the town, because you know how to sell that domain and the previous owner didn't. In fact, that's pretty much my mantra when buying a name at resale price or scooping it up on the drop: I look at the end users, assume the previous owner tried to contact a few but didn't do as thorough a job as I will, and then I get busy.
If the domain has never been regged before, that still doesn't matter because you were clever and forward-thinking enough to register a domain that has interest to end users.
Forget about how long a domain has been regged, it doesn't need to be justified if you have an interested buyer. It's not a negotiating point and you're shooting your negotiations in the foot if you start justifying your selling price based on it being a fresh reg.
If you absolutely must justify it even a little, keep it short like 'I am expert at finding unused domains that are perfect for people, that's what you're paying for'. I wouldn't say even that myself, but if you gotta say something, turn the negative into the positive.
