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I have 16 domains, mostly combinations of two or three common words with a .com extension, that are expiring on 4/7/23 and 4/8/23 and that I won't be developing and won't renew. I've spent several hours studying the options to sell them quickly at the lowest price that's worth the trouble, which I've decided is $20 each. Here's what I've gleaned from this site and my own explorations:

NamePros is the best resource for information about the domain business, but it's clear from what I've read and observed in the auctions forum that posting them there is unlikely to be fruitful.

NameLiquidate seems to be plagued by payment problems that make it not worth the risk and trouble.

Sav.com requires auctions to start at $1, and very few of them seem to get any further than that.

Godaddy auctions require at least 90 days before expiration.

On eBay, of the 638 domain auctions as of yesterday, only 23 have any bids at all, and most are under $10.

Afternic would allow me to lower my BIN price to $20, but their minimum fee is $15, and a buyer there doesn't seem to have any way to sort by price, so someone looking to browse bargains would have no way to find them.

NameSilo, where my domains are registered, has a marketplace that lets buyers sort within a price range and by .com extension, but it doesn't seem to get much mention in what I've read, so I wonder whether it has good buyer traffic.

Sedo does let buyers sort by price, low to high, and by .com extension, and they take a 15% commission with no minimum, so in the hope that a bargain-hunter might find one or more of my domains there, I changed the status of the 16 at Afternic to Hidden, and I changed their status at Sedo to BIN for $20.
 
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I hope you're correct, but their home page still says, "
  • Sell as many domains as you want for one small monthly fee or annual subscription fee."
Few days ago I got an email from them that from the very beginning of April there are "no fee to list platform", and that it reverts to the way it used to be.
Maybe it's a matter of a day or two but as far as I know it's happening.
 
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I have used NameLiquidate in the past to get rid of names I had at Epik. Some I sold for $9 and others for $50-100. I think the STR was less than 10% though.
 
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namecheap does not have an auction platform!!
you can't submit the domains, if you can show me how.....thanks
You are right, NC doesn't have an auction.
Both @lovely4ever and @SELMimo admitted that they were talking about NC Marketplace.
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As popular domain auctions sites they list Sedo, Flippa, NameJet, Snapnames and Ebay.

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The namecheap auction is only for the expiring names as I recall
I can't find this info anywhere mentioned on their website
 
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