Success renting a domain ?

[betterdayz4]

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone has had any success renting a domain name, how much charges vary how they went about doing so etc etc etc. Does anyone see a future in doing this etc. ?

I'm guessing that the price would have to make it worthwhile to the owner (ie more than parking can pay and less hassle than development) and quite a way cheaper than buying the name for the person renting it... anyway, I've been considering offering this as an option on some of my domains, but I need some guidance from the experienced people of namepros

 

[aznchong91]

I think that will be the future of domaining. Eventually, all good domains will be taken, but only some of them will be developed. Thus renting would be the most cost-effective. In fact, I am trying to develop a website at the moment that will be able to do just that.

 

[fonzie_007]

If I am the registrant of a good domain, I am going to want to lease or rent it. If I am looking for a domain, I would want to buy it. Leasing/renting domains tends to be better for the registrant of the domain in the long run. If you are looking to lease/rent a domain, make sure you have a specific contract written up with what your rights are. Do you have the ability to assign your interest? To keep the domain name as long as you want (as long as you pay)? How much are you going to pay and when are payments due? How to handle issues of TM than may include the domain name? Penalty for breach of contract, etc.

Most people figure leasing/renting is too much hassle and don't bother with it. I have heard of a few instances where leasing/renting has worked. I had a guy interested in a domain I had. He wanted to buy and I did not want to sell for the price he offerred me. I suggest that he lease the domain name and then have an option to buy it after two years. We nearly had all of the negotiations worked out, but the deal fell through at the last minute on dispute of TM issues (i.e. could he TM the domain name?).

 

[holeinone]

------Wrong thread...... :td:

 

[aznchong91]

admittedly, leasing and renting domains are very complicated to setup. Nevertheless, if you can actually get the deal to go through, with no extra complications, the advantages can be huge.

 

[gazzip]

If the domain has got a large number of monthly type ins (3000 >) then I think it would be worth looking into - however If it is just a nice name with next to no traffic it would be pointless IMO

Of course this still depends on the cost/agreement details.

 

[GreenGambler]

I am really excited because I am developing a site right now for renting my extra domains, I have about 20. I reg'd. URLlet.com and that is where they will be.....Yeah. My buisness plan is very fare to the renter and IMO very cutting edge..... Now I really do wanna share but it's on the D-L for now until I get my site runing.

 

[DJ-Sound]

I personally see absolutly no future for domain renting. if its for the traffic, well then the owner would park the domains and make the money instead of letting someone else do it.

Also who would rent a domain and build a website just to have the domain taken away when the owner gets a big offer to buy?

imo its pointless

 

[smub]

i've never rent a domain in my entire career, i either buy them from somebody or sell it to somebody who is in need of my domain for a reasonable price

 

[cache]

I tried to rent them, but so far no success. I think your domain needs to be expensive enough for people to rent it, for example, if a buyer said that your domain is too expensive to own, then you can offer this renting option. So far I sold my domains too cheap, the buyers just paid them.

 

[seeker]

be very careful to whom you rent/lease your domains. In the wrong hands, it is easy for a good name to get a bad reputation, therefore giving it a bad 'past' and lower its future value.

I also think unless it is for extremelly valuable domains (sex.com type), renting is not the future. a company will buy the name or buy the traffic, not rent it. the only exception is like the example I gave.

 

[gazzip]

be very careful to whom you rent/lease your domains. In the wrong hands, it is easy for a good name to get a bad reputation, therefore giving it a bad 'past' and lower its future value.
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Very good point and one that had'nt even crossed my mind :o There is one guy at sedo that has loads of domains advertised for sale or for rent of up to 950 euros per month on domains that only have about 2 or 3 visitors per month !! - I think the chances of leasing a domain like this is extremely slim and would be a bad move for an enduser.

 

[legend2]

renting a domain... thats definatly NOT the future of the domain industry

 

[diddie]

Have to agree its not gonna work, if i intend to develop a domain, either i buy a good one if i can pay it, or i reg a worst one if i have not much money.

 

[m66]

It would be a bad, I repeat, bad business decison for anyone to rent a domain. Say I rent a domain, for $200/month...I build a big web business around domain, get it into the top search rankings for keywords on google...end up getting 500,000 uniques a month...then say 12 month lease expires, and lessor now wants to rent name to me for $10,000/month, or gets an offer to buy from someone else, say a competitor, for a few hundred thou..all for a domain name that I built and drove traffic to. And my business goes poof.