discuss Renewing domains in advance to increase sales?

[nomen]

So probably like the most of you guys and girls I've always been renewing my domains at the very last minute and in many cases transferring them out to reduce costs if possible. But just recently I've been starting to renew domains that I like much and tend to keep at least for a few yars way in advance.

My reasoning is that if there would be an end user looking for a domain for an upcoming product or service and he/she sees that the domain is about expire in, say, ~ one month, he/she might just want to see if the domain simply comes available (given that he/she is not that familar with the domain exp. process). It's not like he/she doesn't have a lot of other things to do.

This is all theory at the moment but based on traffic, inquiries, offer views (though pretty useless metric IMO), WhoIs counts and just plain old gut feeling, I renew selected domains even for a couple years. And as said, I just employed this tactic just recently and really don't know if there's anything to it yet.

Opinions? Thoughts?

 

[MARK ROBERTS]

Good observation. Based on my own experience I would agree with it. I think if it is close to expiration, some buyers will wait before making contact.

The most savvy will.

 

[frostify]

I think you should register all your domains for 10 years so people will be much more motivated to buy them from you.

I may be an entirely different person in the course of 10 years , none the less it's an interesting strategy.

 

[TampaDomains]

That is a sarcastic smiley face, or the closest I could find to it.

 

[maxtorz]

Thanks for sharing. It can be hard to know what people want to buy with brandable domains. Is that mostly what you own?

I focus on exact match keyword names, hyphenated domains and brandable domains.
My best sellers are hyphenated 2 word .coms.......
Liquid domains are all over the place in value, so I no longer invest in them just hold on to the ones I already own...

 

[pablohc86]

for sure planning to renew a name for 10 years will make us think twice before to buy a domain name.
this could be a great benefit for selecting only very qualitative names