Selling a domain with all the extensions worth more?

[gunnyguggu]

Hi, my first post here.
Has anyone ever sold a complete brand package before including business name, 27 domain extensions and 14 registered trademarks?
I have a very good brand name with all the extensions
.com
.net
.org
.co
.com.au
.net.au
.org.au
.nz
+ 19 more

 

[garptrader]

An investor needs to be selective with the domains they acquire and not waste money on extensions that no end user is going to pay a premium price for. Many years ago before the new TLDs were launched i would often register the .net equivalent of any .Com which I acquired. I eventually found that buyers only wanted the .com and could care less about the .Net unless it was available for reg fee. Of course if you allow the .net to go unregistered you may find some developers who will choose to build on the .net. But it costs to much money to register and renew hundreds of net domains that will never sell. There are too many alternative extensions now that a low-budget developer can choose from.

 

[xynames]

It did used to be that with a new business, especially one where you have competitors that might try to buy the adjacent extensions to redirect to their own sites, that you locked up at least the .com .net .org , but this isn't standard practice these days, probably because people are more internet savvy and don't put in the wrong extension too often.

For example yahoo.net and yahoo.org redirect to yahoo.com but uber.net and uber.org go nowhere.

 

[Kate]

The .au are restricted to Australian entities, so an interested end user would probably not have interest in all of these names.

 

[Ategy]

It totally depends 100% on the name! I the vast majority of cases I'd say it was a waste of money though. The only case where it would be worthwhile would be strong single dictionary words where the AltTLD's still have a bit of value on their own. Which .. if you're asking the question as you have, then answer is 99.9999% no.

Even then you're not likely to push up your price .. it'll be more a case where you'll simply give an extra reason for the buyer to pull the trigger. Mind you .. if they find your name on a platform like sedo/godaddy .. then they'll never even know you have the other domains ...

Anyhow .. asking such a question without sharing the domain name is essentially useless .. so my advice is not take any advice from anyone who doesn't know the brand. but as a general rule of thumb .. don't do it! lol


Best of luck