What's Fair?

[deleted984054565403]

:hi:

Since I'm having little luck (and little time) selling my domains lately, does anyone think I'd have any success "hiring" someone to sell my domains, perhaps giving them 10-20% of what the domain sells for? I'm not sure how popular this idea is right now, but I have a few domains I'd like sold, and I know there are domainers with a wider outreach in the domain community than me right now that could get a quicker sale than I could.

My question - what would be a fair "commission" for the seller's work to sell the domain in a timely manner?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[dotnom]

If you consider that many domain marketplaces like sedo for example take the 10% even if they don't do anything at all (not actively promoting your site, just list it) i consider 30-50% to be fair for this type of deal. Even with these rates the brokers choose the domains they like and don't promote all the domains they send them

 

[cache]

it has to be a good name for anyone to be interested to be your broker. Because if it were easy to sell, those brokers would simply register some unregistered names and sell them themselves.

 

[deleted984054565403]

it has to be a good name for anyone to be interested to be your broker. Because if it were easy to sell, those brokers would simply register some unregistered names and sell them themselves.

Of course, that's the purpose of doing this. :lol:

Dotnom and cache -- thanks for your input.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Generally listing services charge around 10-20% for just listing your domains. sometimes they do offer some real traffic you couldn't otherwise get or escrow services. I would think an active broker should probably get somewhere between 25 and 50% IF they actively promote the domain in some way. If they also pay their own expenses of doing so at their own risk, I'd say the rate should be near the uppper part of the range. I think I'd want proof of what they intended to do, how they go about it, and some proof that they can or have successfully done so in the past.

In the past 5 years, I don't think there has even been any "real" broker service that does this. I've had several people offer to try selling domains from my portfolio on commission in the past, and offered up to 33% commission. However, I never received the first offer brought as a result of any of them, and never even heard from most after that.

 

[deleted984054565403]

Generally listing services charge around 10-20% for just listing your domains. sometimes they do offer some real traffic you couldn't otherwise get or escrow services. I would think an active broker should probably get somewhere between 25 and 50% IF they actively promote the domain in some way. If they also pay their own expenses of doing so at their own risk, I'd say the rate should be near the uppper part of the range. I think I'd want proof of what they intended to do, how they go about it, and some proof that they can or have successfully done so in the past.

In the past 5 years, I don't think there has even been any "real" broker service that does this. I've had several people offer to try selling domains from my portfolio on commission in the past, and offered up to 33% commission. However, I never received the first offer brought as a result of any of them, and never even heard from most after that.

Thanks for this valuable information. The more I'm reading and getting input from you all (Dotnom, cache, and AdoptableDomains), the more I'm considering avoiding it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks again, Dotnom, cache, and AdoptableDomains, for your suggestions!