Looking for free auction to sell domains

[jcofclouds]

Hi. I am looking for a free site, where I can auction off domain names.
When a domain name sells, then the auctioning service takes a cut(%).

It makes no sense to me, to pay to try and auction a domain name, when I don't know if anyone will even bid or not.

It only makes sense to me, that an auction service is paid if/when a domain name is sold.

I parked a couple of domains with an auction service and that lead to nothing, for about a year.

How about a service like with stocks?
where I could simply have my domain names listed, and anyone can just put in a bid if they want? At any time, I could look, and simply click the sell button, and the transaction would go through to whoever had the highest bid.(bidders have to have the funds right there available at all times).

That makes more sense to me, than having my domain names 'parked' and rotting.
Where, I have to pay money, to 'send' my domain name to auction? That is no good at all.

Does anyone agree with me? You should. Have you ever bought stocks online? There is great opportunities to be had in the format I mention above. For sellers and for buyers.

I want my domain names on auction 24/7, and bidders can bid 24/7 365 days a year.

 

[lothos]

have you looked at Sedo?

 

[jcofclouds]

I have had some domains parked at sedo for about a year now, and they rot.
nothing going on there at all.

I am experienced with buying/selling stocks on the internet.

That is sort of what I am looking for.

I am not really willing to pay in advance to have domain names put on auction, and I don't like having my domains rotting.

They should be listed alphabetically, so bidders can simply look and bid if they want, and it is already on auction and does not need to 'proceed' to auction, because it is always on auction.
I could just look and sell immediately. simple and fast.

The funds would immediately be split up, so that the auction house gets paid their percentage, and I immediately get paid for the sale.

Think about it. I could then quickly go and buy another domain immediately and flip it right away again, under some situations.

ya got to be on top of it. HUGE OPPORTUNITIES DO PRESENT THEMSELVES for an instant at times, and ya gotta move and click real fast.

But these slow motion things is really boring me, and my domains are rotting, and it is no fun at all.

 

[lothos]

But these slow motion things is really boring me, and my domains are rotting, and it is no fun at all.

domains are not stocks and you will not have the same experience with domains. Sometimes it takes YEARS to sell a domain. If you're looking for something more fast paced with ups and downs I would stick with your stocks.

Your domains might not be getting much interest because they might be lower quality as well. I would suggest a free appraisal in the appraisal section here to determine worth.

If you're looking for a more immediate auction format I would suggest Ebay.

EDIT: if you're referring to your cloudco dot me and your cloudga dot me domains, that would explain the little interest. Unfortunately I don't see much value with those two domains. When you register a domain you have to think about what it will be used for, who would want the domain, what the market for the domain would be.

 

[JB Lions]

Hi. I am looking for a free site, where I can auction off domain names.
When a domain name sells, then the auctioning service takes a cut(%).

It makes no sense to me, to pay to try and auction a domain name, when I don't know if anyone will even bid or not.

It only makes sense to me, that an auction service is paid if/when a domain name is sold.

I parked a couple of domains with an auction service and that lead to nothing, for about a year.

How about a service like with stocks?
where I could simply have my domain names listed, and anyone can just put in a bid if they want? At any time, I could look, and simply click the sell button, and the transaction would go through to whoever had the highest bid.(bidders have to have the funds right there available at all times).

That makes more sense to me, than having my domain names 'parked' and rotting.
Where, I have to pay money, to 'send' my domain name to auction? That is no good at all.

Does anyone agree with me? You should. Have you ever bought stocks online? There is great opportunities to be had in the format I mention above. For sellers and for buyers.

I want my domain names on auction 24/7, and bidders can bid 24/7 365 days a year.

That's how most auction places already work, Sedo, Ebay, GoDaddy etc. Most of the time it's free to list, if it sells then they take a percentage.

 

[DorianGray]

That's how most auction places already work, Sedo, Ebay, GoDaddy etc. Most of the time it's free to list, if it sells then they take a percentage.

Those sites' auction systems could be improved/innovated. As a matter of fact, they should. And whoever will be able to innovate domain auction systems, will make big money IMO. Bido once tried. It's worth re-thinking and try. Cause I believe that what the thread starter expressed here is a market demand.

 

[iowadawg]

The demand to buy domains on auction sites like sedo, ebay, etal. is there already!
Look at the daily sales for these auction houses.

But also see that most of the domains on sedo, ebay, etal. are crap domains nobody wants to purchase or bid on.
If you put a domain up for auction and a month or more later no interest?
You just might have a CRAP domain!

Use forums to auction off your domains.
If interest, you will find out fast.
But no interest?
Again, see above...

Everyone it seems who owns a domain thinks and believes that they have a domain that should sell for a million dollars.

Domain owners have to be realistic and from what I gather on namepros, that aint happening!

 

[DorianGray]

Right. Nevertheless some creative ideas such as "appraisal by user community while auctioning" won't do harm to no one. Repeating: The implementation of a more competitive, hot auctioning system can make big money. It's all about developing new strategies to attract more people who will jump in the game. Think about Facebook and Twitter - They didn't invent social media, they just innovated it.

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Domain name contests, "like" buttons for domain names, domain sales/brokerage gadgets you can place on every web site and every single page... More promotion, more advertisement, easy domain acquiring, even a Google which would list keyword domains for sale in search results (commission based, prepaid service, etc.) Or developing a search engine for domain names for sale only - global, searchable by price range, age, pr, traffic, etc. Wouldn't it be great? Google could make even more money by helping domainers sell their domain names. Registrars or auction sites do not have this power.
No limit to imagination.

 

[jcofclouds]

I know one of the big auction houses for domain names will not even let people join unless they have credit card.
Well, I guess paypal isn't good enough for them. I figure if they are concerned about whether the person has the funds or not, they might consider having people transfer their funds to their site, and only if they have sufficient funds in their account, can they bid.

But, what I mean is, I think I would like to have my domain names perpetually in a list, and people can put in a bid no matter how low, and the bids remain there unless they cancel their bid. But it might come down to who clicks the button first and the domain seller might beat them, and sell to them before they can cancel.
That way, I would look at lists of domains, and there might be bids placed on some or more of them. In my conceptuality there is no time restrictions on this type of 'auction' at all.
For example, I might look at a domain I am trying to sell, and someone has put in a very low bid on it.
I don't sell initially, but 6 months later, I look and there is that same bid still sitting there(they have to have funds in account to make the bid sort of thing).
I will have renew the registration again soon, but I am thinking that maybe I don't really care about this domain name now, so I click the sell button and immediatley I sell the domain.
Everything is automated, so the house gets a percentage at that time, and I take my cut, and the buyer then gets the domain transferred to them.

For example, someone might put in bids of .01 cent if they want.
if no one else bids any higher, then some of the owners of domains might just sell to them, as re-registration is approaching or because they have rl to live and will be away from pc for some time.

They can have a button that says 'sell to highest bidder', and they can click it, and sell immediately.

On the other hand, they can have a button that says 'buy at the desired price of the owner' or something like that.

With one click of the button, the deal is done.

everyone has to agree to 'terms and conditions', and clicking one of those buttons is final. the deal is done.
lots of fun.

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oh, and by the way.

if the highest bidder cancels their bid, nonetheless there may be lower bids that were not cancelled by other bidders.

the next highest bid would then show as the high bid.

(this can run into some problems rarely, when a bidder cancels microseconds before the owner clicks the button to sell to the highest bidder.

So, the owner also has the option of inputting a dollar amount that they will sell at, and if that is the same amount as the highest bid then the deal will go through.
This is to get out of the problem of clicking sell to highest bidder button, microseconds after the highest bidder cancels, and then the highest bid might be quite low, thus upsetting the seller, who then complains and is angry perhaps.

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I need to mention that the 'auction' house, or intercessor, will not make any money off of .01 cent sales, but this is simply a customer service to the people using the site is all.
That way, it might be possible for bidders to amass fairly large #'s of domains at rock bottom prices, and if they are innovative they might be able to turn a profit on those.
The auction house does make money off of the large sales of course.

Consider the micro-economies on the internet, and there is alot of interest out there for this type of thing.

With the new tld's coming, there will likely be even more domain names sitting around rotting. Not doing nothing for no one, may as well, get a penny?

Might even have an option for sellers where they set a date where it will automatically sell to the highest bidder, no matter what the highest bid is. That might be interesting for bidders.

 

[JB Lions]

"I don't sell initially, but 6 months later, I look and there is that same bid still sitting there(they have to have funds in account to make the bid sort of thing)."

Half a year? That won't work, too many problems. That's why most auctions have a time component.

 

[jcofclouds]

Domain names are a complex business, I see.
But, as long as the funds are in the bidders account, then the seller can immediately sell to their high bid, whether it be today, or 6 months from now, as long as that bid has not been cancelled.
The funds in the bidders account get frozen by the action of placing the bid. The program needs to make a comparison check to make sure the bidder has sufficient funds in the account prior to allowing the bid to be placed. People do change their minds, from one day to the next.
There are alot of domain names that do not get re-registered, and users just let them go to be deleted.
But, this concept I am talking about, gives domain name owners another option, whereby they would be able to simply sell to the highest bidder, perhaps one week prior to having to re-register the domain, as a last resort, to recoups somewhat, rather than nothing.
An ambitious bidder might then go around placing small bids on alot of domain names, thus it does encourage the commencement of the bidding process. It would be nice if it shows that the seller will sell to the highest bidder on 'x' day at such and such hour, minute, second.
So, there might be a runup in the bidding just prior to that time, and the last day or more might get showcased, but it could be for sale for many months..
Seems very wasteful to allow so many domains to be deleted.... when there are users/people who are willing to bid on their domains or at least some of their domains.
On a limited basis it could allow bidders to get some domains they might not be able to get otherwise, because of so much competition in the deletion process.
Instead of allowing domains to go to delete, simply put them on a site like I am conceptualizing, and click the button that says they will sell to the highest bidder(perhaps a week prior to re-registration, or a couple days?? This is to prevent the domain from going to delete, if they have no intention of renewing/re-registering it.
It is just a matter of being friendly to other domainers, when one gets some domain names, just think, and give it to other domainers prior to deletion, if you are not going to renew it.(be a good neighbor)
Also, they can get a penny, which is more than what they get, if they allow it to be deleted.
(of course, domain names that are esteemed as more valuable, will likely get more bids, especially as that pre-set date to sell approaches.)(the seller does have the ability to cancel the sale at any time, as long as they click the cancel button prior to someone clicking to purchase it at their asking price)



And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:17

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A site like this might somewhat prevent some good domain names from ever becoming stagnant for 75? days during the delete process.
There are various different reasons why some premium domain names might end up not being re-registered. (alot of owners of domains will not join, but some might, and some of the domain names will be valuable at some time or another, don't you think?)

I like the idea myself, but some people might not like this idea.

From having played some online games, I have observed users/players who are quite ambitious to chase after the internet micro-economy money, so I reason there would be at least some who would go around putting in small bids, hoping to get a good deal.
It almost turns it into a bit of a game in a way.


The grace of the lord is amazing, and is shown by the fact that christians can do everything they do, in Jesus name.(I thought this was appropriate to mention this, in the area of domaining or collecting domain names).
I wouldn't want people doing everything in my name, but the grace of the Lord is abounding towards those who believe in His Son.

 

[wonderfulsites]

I think domain sites are not innovating their websites.

I think a new auction site that is a combination of ebay and bido style would generate more sales and perhaps force the other websites to innovate.

When I have the funds something worth looking into.. there is a site in the uk called domainlore thats innovated slightly but they charge £5 to list a domain. This is not fair.


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