advice My first step in domaining. Do you guys think I'm pricing these right?

[BootyOcean18]

Here's a list of my domains for sale:

AdultEscortServices.com - $850
AlgebraSchool.org - $750
BellasItalianRestaurant.com - $900
FayettevilleAutoBroker.com - $800
FayettevilleCarBroker.com - $350
FayettevilleWedding.photography - $50
GabbysGiveaways.com - $85
IronTemple.online - $50
OnTheRag.xyz - $50
SeafoodRestaurantMiami.com - $850
SovereignMasculinity.com - $250
TRTOne.com - $1,050
TRTPharmacy.com - $1,100
WilmingtonWedding.photography - $75

Some background: I've only purchased 5 domains for the purpose of domaining (two restaurant domains, two trt domains, adult escort domain), the rest are domains I snapped up for this project or that which have since not come to fruition.

I've been reading about domaining for a month or so now, so I really don't know what I'm doing.

It seems like estibot swings low, and godaddy evaluation swings high, so my pricing is a mid point between the two.

I guess my next step - once I get the pricing right - is to get them listed around the web.

 

[golan]

No. You are pricing these wrong. Before registering a name, put yourself to a buyer shoes and ask yourself: who on Earth would EVER want to buy this domain and for what purpose?
Who in his sane mind would buy a domain for $800 and even for $50 if he can freely register the equally same name?
Who in his sane mind would buy .online name for $50 if the same name is freely available in .co, .info, .io, .pro?
Just fix your losses, let them all expire, and think better when do this again. Or find a job.

 

[BootyOcean18]

No. You are pricing these wrong. Before registering a name, put yourself to a buyer shoes and ask yourself: who on Earth would EVER want to buy this domain and for what purpose?
Who in his sane mind would buy a domain for $800 and even for $50 if he can freely register the equally same name?
Who in his sane mind would buy .online name for $50 if the same name is freely available in .co, .info, .io, .pro?

Thank you. This is useful.

Just fix your losses, let them all expire, and think better when do this again. Or find a job.

Definitely not doing that. I may be new, but I know can - at worst - bulk sell them isntead of just 'letting them expire'.

Plus, with a 7 year background in SEO, I know quite a few of these are valuable at least on that front.

 

[EZPZYO]

Thank you. This is useful.



Definitely not doing that. I may be new, but I know can - at worst - bulk sell them isntead of just 'letting them expire'.

Plus, with a 7 year background in SEO, I know quite a few of these are valuable at least on that front.

Way to go buddy!

 

[Kate]

Plus, with a 7 year background in SEO, I know quite a few of these are valuable at least on that front.

Any domain can be developed, but developing a website (to possibly sell it), and selling a raw domains are two different things.
Pricing domains is not the problem. The problem is finding buyers. Or rather: have names that other people would want, so the buyers will find you.
I mean, what's your domain really worth, if there is no buyer... ?

Generally speaking, end users need a compelling reason for buying a domain. If they can find another name of similar or superior quality available for regfee, why would they buy from you. Have you bought a domain on the aftermarket, for a price in the same range you're quoting ?

These names look more like lottery tickets, than researched investments imo.
I think you should do more research, and ignore automated appraisals. Good luck

 

[Pierre Barnard]

Well said @Kate B ...

 

[JanO]

No. You are pricing these wrong. Before registering a name, put yourself to a buyer shoes and ask yourself: who on Earth would EVER want to buy this domain and for what purpose?
Who in his sane mind would buy a domain for $800 and even for $50 if he can freely register the equally same name?
Who in his sane mind would buy .online name for $50 if the same name is freely available in .co, .info, .io, .pro?
Just fix your losses, let them all expire, and think better when do this again. Or find a job.

Although you have some valid points; why would you be so aggressive/rude towards someone who just asks for an opinion? Pretty shitty way of welcoming a new member too..

 

[anf]

Although you have some valid points; why would you be so aggressive/rude towards someone who just asks for an opinion? Pretty sh*tty way of welcoming a new member too...

I do not see anything sh*tty here. Excellent answer nailing all of the points. When i just started domaining, i regged some bad names, and i am grateful to people that told me that these names are a "complete crap".

 

[BootyOcean18]

Although you have some valid points; why would you be so aggressive/rude towards someone who just asks for an opinion? Pretty sh*tty way of welcoming a new member too..

I thought it was a bit harsh, but its the internet. Extract what truth you can and let the rest roll off. Perhaps I could have lurked a bit longer.

Thank you for standing up against it, though.

 

[EZPZYO]

I do not see anything sh*tty here. Excellent answer nailing all of the points. When i just started domaining, i regged some bad names, and i am grateful to people that told me that these names are a "complete crap".

Fact of the matter is, he never requested an "opinion" on the "quality" of his name's and I believe he already has a job. We all have jobs I'ld sure hope so and domaining is just an "expensive hobby"

 

[BootyOcean18]

Fact of the matter is, he never requested an "opinion" on the "quality" of his name's and I believe he already has a job. We all have jobs I'ld sure hope so and domaining is just an "expensive hobby"

Correct on all fronts. I wanted to know if the prices seemed reasonable, and if I had an alright method for determining prices.

Learned that they may or may not be - depends on if I can find a buyer at the price requested (odds are against, I feel?) - and my reasoning for setting prices is garbage.

I've also learned that flipping domains is different from flipping whole sites - in which I do have experience.

I need to evaluate the domains like I would for an SEO campaign: Clean history, current live links, historical links, previous content quality.

I need to add in current registration age (longer = better), market demand, availability of end users to purchase.

To that end, I do still think I have some winners in a few of the GEO domains, and possibly in a niche domain. I've picked up two domains since I've started this thread that I feel could be real winners and have been marketing them pretty aggressively.

But even if this all ends up as a loss, I'll learn, modify my tactic, and push forward. I'll get to a win here eventually.

 

[stewmath]

To be fair some of these names looks better than alot of the ones Mike Man owns in his portfolio, but he plays the numbers game and has well over 300,000 names so on occasions the crappy ones will sell.

 

[MapleDots]

AdultEscortServices.com - $850

He may have something with this one, I don't think it is overpriced. If EscortServices.com is taken a good alternative for a business would be AdultEscortServices.com.

In fact the Adult part of the domain could even be preferred if the escort service does more than just escort . Adult implies a little extra action might be indicated.

For a little business in a strip mall with all the windows taped up that domain might even be worth more than the $850 asking price.

 

[PeakDots]

I do have a job and at my job when I I give advice to a new employee in training I try to mentor them to make them better at what they do. I do not belittle them. Want to see them succeed! That's just me.
I noticed a lot of good advice and encouragement from members here on NP. Thank you!
My names may not have value to some people but it might to others.
We can only get better if we listen,learn, and give 100% at what we do.

 

[Joe N]

I need to evaluate the domains like I would for an SEO campaign: Clean history, current live links, historical links, previous content quality.

I need to add in current registration age (longer = better), market demand, availability of end users to purchase.

Only a couple years experience speaking here, but I've done my share of outbound marketing so far and have yet to encounter any potential end users who wanted to know any of this information.

Of course existing traffic is the exception, but you'll need to pay to acquire domains that have that.

Your main considerations when buying names should be the two bolded items that you indicated. Desirable words + lots of potential buyers = much better chance at a sale. It's a numbers game. There are no guarantees, but you need to select names that are going to increase your odds of profiting

 

[Katee584]

Yes i think its all a learning curve. I feel that adult escort services and bellas italian restaurant could be developed or sold. Ive registered lots of crap names although getting better now. I registered milkshakeduck.com a while back and i doubt it will ever become part of everyday language.