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Hello,

My domain, WWX.com, will not be available until 2027. Many folks here suggested i create a landing page. I did some research on how to best optimize this. I put this together with the assistance of AI. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance.

www.skyspeaker.com
 
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From the previous thread and everything that was discussed there it's clear you are an intelligent guy holding a strong hand here, successful in business and able to deflect some of the perhaps slightly negative replies by saying how experienced you are in general business.

But I have to agree with one of those comments in that thread. Domains are a different world to general business dealings and being frank you are showing a few rookie errors here and I think you missed the point of some of those posts. My recommendation would be to go back and re-read the thread.

The biggest no-no is you have this landing page on a completely different and random unknown url. If anything that could detract from the sale and is worse than no landing page at all.
 
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Domains are bought, not sold. The purpose of a landing page is to make it obvious to visitors that the domain is for sale. A landing page doesn't sell a domain name. You can look at some of the best portfolios and brokerages in the business for examples of landing pages that work, e.g:

Hilco Digital Assets: age.com, premier.com

Grit Brokerage: aww.com, oft.com

Perfect Domain: fishy.com, whe.com

The consistent theme is that the domain itself either is or redirects to the landing page. For content, they provide contact details, and sometimes the option to buy it now. Any content beyond that is based on trust in the business, i.e: here's why you can buy from us with confidence.

You have 2 options to sell a domain:

1. Sell to an end user who has decided they want your domain based on the domain itself. Distribution is important for selling to end users, i.e: people should know the domain is for sale (and ideally, a price). Distribution means a landing page (ideally with a price) and posted on every marketplace (Afternic, Atom, Sedo, Spaceship etc.) because these domains are syndicated to registrars (e.g: listing with Afternic means someone search for "wwx" on GoDaddy would be shown your domain as an aftermarket domain for sale).

2. Sell to an investor based on the investor's personal belief about the long term value of a domain (i.e: they buy it from you to sell to an end user in future). An investor buys based on the domain name alone and will pay a fraction of what an end user might pay (the difference is how they make their money).

End users = best price, longest time. Investors = quickest sale, low price.

You can make comprehensive landing pages if you want to, there is no disadvantage to it, but it will not move the needle. Visiting wwx.com should show that the domain is for sale, and ideally, provide a price, but beyond that, you're just having fun :)

If you want to move the needle, you need to focus on distribution and price.
 
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Hello,

My domain, WWX.com, will not be available until 2027. Many folks here suggested i create a landing page. I did some research on how to best optimize this. I put this together with the assistance of AI. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance.

www.skyspeaker.com
I like the content but the design is no good, looks like you used some bad gpt version.
 
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From the previous thread and everything that was discussed there it's clear you are an intelligent guy holding a strong hand here, successful in business and able to deflect some of the perhaps slightly negative replies by saying how experienced you are in general business.

But I have to agree with one of those comments in that thread. Domains are a different world to general business dealings and being frank you are showing a few rookie errors here and I think you missed the point of some of those posts. My recommendation would be to go back and re-read the thread.

The biggest no-no is you have this landing page on a completely different and random unknown url. If anything that could detract from the sale and is worse than no landing page at all.
Thanks for your reply.

The domain is in use by others (same entity that has been using it since 1998) until 2027. So my options were wait until then or do as i have done. I think getting the name out there now cannot hurt.
 
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Domains are bought, not sold. The purpose of a landing page is to make it obvious to visitors that the domain is for sale. A landing page doesn't sell a domain name. You can look at some of the best portfolios and brokerages in the business for examples of landing pages that work, e.g:

Hilco Digital Assets: age.com, premier.com

Grit Brokerage: aww.com, oft.com

Perfect Domain: fishy.com, whe.com

The consistent theme is that the domain itself either is or redirects to the landing page. For content, they provide contact details, and sometimes the option to buy it now. Any content beyond that is based on trust in the business, i.e: here's why you can buy from us with confidence.

You have 2 options to sell a domain:

1. Sell to an end user who has decided they want your domain based on the domain itself. Distribution is important for selling to end users, i.e: people should know the domain is for sale (and ideally, a price). Distribution means a landing page (ideally with a price) and posted on every marketplace (Afternic, Atom, Sedo, Spaceship etc.) because these domains are syndicated to registrars (e.g: listing with Afternic means someone search for "wwx" on GoDaddy would be shown your domain as an aftermarket domain for sale).

2. Sell to an investor based on the investor's personal belief about the long term value of a domain (i.e: they buy it from you to sell to an end user in future). An investor buys based on the domain name alone and will pay a fraction of what an end user might pay (the difference is how they make their money).

End users = best price, longest time. Investors = quickest sale, low price.

You can make comprehensive landing pages if you want to, there is no disadvantage to it, but it will not move the needle. Visiting wwx.com should show that the domain is for sale, and ideally, provide a price, but beyond that, you're just having fun :)

If you want to move the needle, you need to focus on distribution and price.
Thanks for the input.
 
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I like the content but the design is no good, looks like you used some bad gpt version.
Thanks for the comments. The design is simple and clean. My goal is to get wwx into the search engines so when i do roll the landing page to wwx I will be in a good position.
 
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How are you going to handle (or feel about) a very generous offer that is made on the condition that the buyer gets the domain much sooner than 2027?
 
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How are you going to handle (or feel about) a very generous offer that is made on the condition that the buyer gets the domain much sooner than 2027?
That's a good problem to have and we would try to work something out with the current user. However, In the end we committed to its current use until 2027 and we will honor that.
 
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Your GoDaddy-built website is okay - it's a little gaudy and isn't winning any web design awards anytime soon, but it gets the job done and contains all the information you need, possibly even too much.

I also disagree that you need a price, most domains of this caliber are set to make offer for good reason and you'll get offers eventually.

I do agree that the biggest problem is your current domain, and that you will only get serious end-user offers once the domain you're selling leads to your lander. The domain "skyspeaker" is terrible in terms of relevance and will come across to most visitors as a phishing link, and the generic text-heavy design that looks like your average parked page will only reinforce that, but more crucially, unless you're planning to do dedicated marketing for that domain (which a few posts on a domainer forum is not), no end user is going to find it at all. People who want to buy wwx.com go to wwx.com, it's as simple as that, anything until then is just bikeshedding, to borrow a software engineering term.
 
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