How you got started selling domains?

[DSL]

Im always curious as to how people have started on this so once again, how did you start in this business? What got you interested? :]

 

[Kodeking]

Join a forum like this one, and buy some domains that sound cool. Then sell them for more if you can. Get a reseller account when you have a keen eye for new regs.

 

[Webtwink]

interst

if what got me interested was the question, then it would be some money that i would get as a hobby. i started into domain on sept 26. That was the day i joined namepros:red:. 3 more days and i will celebrate my 1 month at namepros.

 

[Kings]

Knew hardly anything about domains, joined NamePros, few days later, selling domains...

 

[DSL]

Cool.. alot of you started at namepros. :D

 

[Coastalguy]

Started 4 years ago on eBay. Sold a few than got frustrated and took a break (actually, gave my wallet a break). Just got back into it about 3 months ago and luckily found NamePros. Now, if I could only get the ball going again with my first NP sale!

Interested in hearing more "stories". Thanks for the thread Daz.

ST

 

[webmasterinfo]

Started a swedish website but i havent got much time for it so i sold it, i got very interested in this business .. Bought some domains, i found a couple of forums, and i found out that namepros was the best forum out there

 

[Chris Matthers]

Started at Namepros.com

 

[KingDon]

I sell leather jackets and Sterling Silver jewelry online. After paying money over and over year after year for online advertising, I stumbled across an auction for a domain name with traffic. I bought the name and pointed the traffic to my wholesale web site. When I saw the traffic come through, I wondered where this guy was getting these names from; because he had many other auctions going on for other domain names. I started researching and found out there was a whole industry involved in the buying and selling of domain names, I was hooked!

I joined a bunch of forums and after time found out where and how to look for good domain names. But most importantly I saw something that other domainers kept stepping right over, and now I dig there. I think it's a great opportunity to make some nice cash, I know I'm doing OK with domain names for the work I put into it. I just accepted a nice deal this weekend, going to be my biggest yet, 3.5K. And that's for a name I found that had been sitting there all day unregistered.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!!!

Don

 

[Coastalguy]

Any chance of letting us know what that 3.5k name was?
Just curious.

ST

 

[KingDon]

I'll let that out of the bag when the check comes in, I think I'll even scan a copy of it to increase the drooling sensation. I will make a post in a few days when the transaction is completed, but it looks like a very solid deal.

 

[Coastalguy]

Congrats. Hope all goes smoothly.

ST

 

[pelican]

Well, i started by just regging for my customer's domains. Then i reg a few and a few and a few....

 

[Webtwink]

Kingdon

kingdon yours is a nice story. i on the other started search on google "making money on the net" and i found out about domain reselling. "talk about absurd".

 

[DSL]

LOl some weird stories here.

 

[JMJ]

I registered a bunch of crappy domains with the plans of developing them and decided they weren't worth developing. I found another forum and saw a request, posted, sold the name for $100, and to this day I'm still registering crappy names.

 

[DSL]

LOL I see ... :lol:

 

[Cindy]

Originally posted by Kings
Knew hardly anything about domains, joined NamePros, few days later, selling domains...

*Nods* Same here.

 

[DSL]

hehe just wondering gusy because im not really a domain seller but a site developer. :D

 

[doubledee999]

Originally posted by JoltHost
I registered a bunch of crappy domains with the plans of developing them and decided they weren't worth developing. I found another forum and saw a request, posted, sold the name for $100, and to this day I'm still registering crappy names.

lol I make money buying and selling the garbage., I try like hell not to sell names on forums though, I could never make money selling to resellers., I only sell to endusers., Nothing less than 200.00, In the meantime I develop them into cookie cutter forums/ ppc sites whatever I can make a profit on., They way I look at it is, if I buy a bunch of garbage names for say 2-3 bucks each, and I can get that name with a garbage site and some seo to make 25-50 bucks a year., Then I am happy., It is just some nice side income for me, I know it sounds bad, but I will also use multiple pop ups/unders anything to make the name bring in revenue., Ill build the site, then move on to the next one., checking on them maybe once a month or less., That is the system I use, everyone has thier own ways.