Is being "Featured" worth the cost?

[dag]

Question: Do you feel that paying the extra money to feature your listing at Sedo, Afternic, TDNAM, etc., is worth it? Have many of you gotten more offers on featured domains than you have on non-featured? Is home-page featured a lot more useful than category featured?

Or is this one of those things like appraisals that just doesn't justify paying for?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Is the name good enough to sell w/o neing featured?
Then, no.

Is it so bad that it wouldn't sell, possinly even if it is featured?

No again.

-Allan

 

[cache]

no

 

[khuldun]

Waste of money! If the name isnt worth selling apart from that, then sell it at the forums, you will get a sale without having to pay to list it

 

[rome2ng]

a good domain dun need to be featured, it will still sell well

 

[Easydoms]

Definalty a no no.

As comments say, If domain is that good it will sell it's self.

 

[mick]

yes, but how do you advertise if you don't list as featured to get the max exposure? How will people know of your domain if nobody or only a few are actually typing it in?

 

[MCDomains]

The horrible names that are featured @ Sedo and Afternic are comical... featuring a crap domain won't help it sell.

Like others said, a good domain just needs to be listed ... no need to feature it.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

I have seen many people complain that they aren't on the front page very often when they pay to be featured and that they hardly receive hardly any more views than usual.

You will probably find, that if it is worth being featured, then sedo will put youin the featured domain cycle on their front page by themselves.

- Luke

 

[SpongyBob]

I'd say no. I tried it with one domain as an experiment, got alot more views, but no offers. I'd say it depends how good your name is, how cheap you're prepared to sell it, and how keen you are for a quick sale. Personally I priced my domain at what I considered a fair price, but I wasn't prepared to sell it cheap. If you're not that bothered about a quick sale, I'd say not, chances are people will eventually find a good name, anyway.

I notice also on Afternic, that there seems alot more domains listed in the featured area these days, so the value of such a listing seems to have reduced significantly, as the chance of getting on the front page each refresh has gone down.

The ludicrously overpriced ones always give me a laugh, though :D. Dreaming newbies I assume.

 

[Dr.Lee]

recently I saw a lot of not so good names featured. I think if the name is very good and sure to sell for xxxx or more, it is worth to be featured. but if the name is xx-xxx range, it is a waste of money. I found too many xx names featured now. If they are featured there, the xxxxx name owners will not be happy to spend money to let their high value names stand with the xx names.

 

[faisj]

I don't think so (imo)

 

[deleted984054565403]

I also noticed that it's not a good idea to sell speculative names such as "blook names" on Sedo. Such words haven't expanded a lot outside certain forums and people will simply raise an eyebrow at seeing domains with made-up words, unless the buyer is within that forum (the person would probably just search for the keyword at Sedo in that case).

Hopefully that makes sense.

I'm considering selling a low $xxx name on Sedo's featured listing, pricing it an extra $39 above what I'd normally sell it as to make up for the cost, just to experiment with it. I also believe that if you have a featured listing and you set a price, people are more likely to look at it. I know I personally skip over all the "make offer" domains in the featured listings.

 

[Noobie]

i'm 0 for 2 with featured listings ... but my domains may have been in the "so bad they won't sell" category.