poll What’s your preferred sales venue/service

[JudgeMind]

The end of 2018 has come. The past year or so there have been a couple extra options introduced for sellers to sell their domains.

I wanted to run a poll to see which venue/service sellers prefer to use.

Feel free to post why it’s your preferred avenue for selling in the comments.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

[JudgeMind]

Note: you can vote for max 2 choices, since brandable domains can have targeted venues

 

[ak4586]

Voted @JudgeMind

 

[Abdillahi Abdillahi]

Is efty considered a market place or a software which you can setup as your own website? I think it should not be on the list as it differs from all of them.if it should be there, I know scripts similar to efty that should be there too. Voted.

 

[JudgeMind]

The list is marketplace or service, efty would be a service for selling domains

 

[Coinking]

My Afternic and Godaddy

 

[Fancy.domains]

I sell most names privately, but I like Undeveloped. 9% commission is very reasonable. Personally, I think 20% is just too much.

 

[infosec3]

If I have to pick, which I did, I would say GoDaddy, but my real sales venue is my own outbound effort.

 

[imadoer]

Voted none of the above ..... My nameservers sell domains the best doesnt matter where I point them

 

[JudgeMind]

I prefer the options that are free to use! NO COMMISSION

 

[J Sokol]

My vote went to Undeveloped. I like its uncluttered look, its ease of use, and its nice landing pages.

 

[DN_Hunter]

I like the lowest possible fees -- so right now for me it's Efty (with transaction through escrow.com most of the time -- sometimes Sedo escrow is used).

However, I have been thinking about Afternic / GoDaddy because the added "eyeballs" might justify their fees. If I sell more names, maybe it's worth it... Will test a portion of my names that I already assigned a fixed price -- I will just list them with a slightly higher price to see if I get more sales through Afternic / GD

 

[Name Trader]

Wow. Quite a range of choices. I chose Afternic first. I like their reach with their network of sellers, which includes GoDaddy. I then went and added Efty. I like their platform quite a lot. Although I haven't used it much. However, most of my domains are pointed to my own website.

 

[Haris]

Wow. Quite a range of choices. I chose Afternic first. I like their reach with their network of sellers, which includes GoDaddy. I then went and added Efty. I like their platform quite a lot. Although I haven't used it much. However, most of my domains are pointed to my own website.

You said everything I wanted to say, I also voted for AfterNic and Efty. AfterNic, with all their faults, brings in a lot of sales doesn't matter whether you use their nameservers or not, I would pay 20% for this but their service is awful and I wish with all the money they make for a small amount of work they should try and improve their website and service.

 

[Name Trader]

@Haris - Agree

 

[topdom]

Afternic and Sedo have partners. This is what I like about them. But none meets my expections completely. Curious about Efty.

 

[WingMan]

Ebay isn't listed?! Shocking.

 

[JudgeMind]

Looks like undeveloped and afternic are leading by storm!

 

[Furquan]

When its come to sell as Make an offer than I say, Undeveloped.com is amazing. But when I want sell some names quickly than Afternic & Sedo both work great only I need to lower the BIN.

 

[topdom]

I like instant sale offered by Epik and Namesilo. Maybe a few others like Dynadot, Uniregistry, Godaddy, Namecheap may be offering the same thing.

For reaching Chinese buyers I think Afternic is a good choce, because strangely Chinese people don't seem to buy domains if not offered by Godaddy. I dropped 30 3 letter .co's just because Chinese people insist on Godaddy. But I tested my domains listed on AN at Godaddy, and they were not visible.

Sedo is good for reaching European buyers, but it was better. Now they have many mistakes. It looks like their agenda is not selling domains owned by domainers. They use those domains to get traffic, and then do what they want to do with that traffic. They don't fix those mistakes, although they are obvious.

Efty: considering using it for good landing pages, and IP checking. Still thinking.

Use your own server?: But domain need to be transferred in a way acceptable to the buyer. They don't want to get scammed, by paying and getting nothing.

Outbounding? : Same as above, you can find a buyer, but then you need to sell somewhere.
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Outbounding is a must, otherwise sales don't recover renewals. But outbounding doesn't work either. Maybe when it is mixed with good landing page, it may work. You can sell 10 domains and recover registration costs of 1000 domains, but what to do with all 990 domains which have the same quality as the 10 sold ones. Sitting on them costs more than registering them. It is a big dilemma.