Selling domains on Amazon.com?

[tkstark]

Anyone here ever try to sell domain names on Amazon? Know of anyone else doing it? Were they successful?

I just stumbled across this: Amazon.com: Stori Telling www.Storitelling.com Domain Name for Sale Tori Spelling: Everything Else

'Stori Telling' is the name of Tori Spelling's autobiography. This is someone selling the .com domain name: StoriTelling(.)com. I never heard of this before. I wonder where the seller got the asin code for the name?

This is the only domain name I see listed on Amazon and the other items I see the seller has listed are books, not domain names.

 

[labrocca]

I am pretty sure Amazon doesn't allow the sale of virtual items.

 

[tricolorro]

I am pretty sure Amazon doesn't allow the sale of virtual items.

Hi,

I don't know about domains but Amazon does sell ebooks.

 

[tkstark]

I am pretty sure Amazon doesn't allow the sale of virtual items.

i thought amazon required items to have an asin/isbn code in order to be listed. that automatically disqualifies domain names, i would think. yet both the subject line and the product description of this listing state "domain name for sale" and the address is a parked sedo page. odder still, the listing has a asin code. how do you get an asin code for a domain name?

 

[hrethel]

i thought amazon required items to have an asin/isbn code in order to be listed. that automatically disqualifies domain names, i would think. yet both the subject line and the product description of this listing state "domain name for sale" and the address is a parked sedo page. odder still, the listing has a asin code. how do you get an asin code for a domain name?

Well, technically, I believe that anything that you add to Amazon just gets an ASIN code by default, since an ASIN is really just a unique Amazon-specific identifier that is autogenerated when adding items (for ease of use, Amazon just uses the ISBN as the ASIN if it's available but, e.g., DVDs don't have ISBNs, so they need a unique number). I suppose if you could find some way to add the domain name through the store management software, you'd get an ASIN regardless of what the item actually is.

 

[Eric Lyon]

You can't really sell domains on Amazon because there isn't a product category for them, but you can buy domains from Amazon that are available for registration:

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-register.html

Hope that helps,

 

[anantj]

Hi,

I don't know about domains but Amazon does sell ebooks.

Movies and music as well