Where to begin: Selling thousands of domains?

[chain_reactor]

Alright, I'm a little stumped! If you had thousands of domains to sell (premium and non-premium) where would you begin?

I have some ideas such as selling to another domain portfolio owner, maybe even hiring a broker to sell them and give a cut. What would help a domain portfolio owner quickly evaluate thousands of domains?

Do you think listing the domains on Sedo (or other sites) individually would bring a larger return even though it would take a lot of time managing thousands of negotiations?

Any ideas would be appreciated it.

 

[Niamod]

Hi PIWH,

I suspect you'll get more money selling the names individually but it would be really time consuming.

Have you considered breaking the portfolio into groups of names? How about groups such as 4-letter names, brandable, geo, names with traffic/revenue, real estate, etc.? My personal focus is on real estate/geo and domains that make $5-$50/month by being parked.

As a buyer, I'd take the time to look through a list of domains that are grouped into the niches I'm interested in. I'd be less inclined to look through a list of 1000+ domains.

I'd consider grouping by niche and then selling off the real premiums individually. Good luck!

Bill

 

[Name Trader]

You are unlikely to find a buyer for all the domains at once unless they're all very good and making money. I'd upload them all to Sedo and Afternic for starters. I'd advertise groups of them here and at DNF (but even on these forums you are unlikely to find 1 buyer for your whole group of names). You should be prepared to sell them all inidividually.

 

[notlikeyou]

selling individually will garner more profit, but as Niamod (nice avater, sleestak is killing me) said it will take longer. List them where ever possible, auction or fixed price them here, if they are "premium and non-premium" you won't have difficulty selling.

 

[VURG]

Sell of the lesser domains in bulk.

Sell off the better domains individually.

I have been trying to deal with the same issue for the past two years. Feel welcome to PM me if you want more specific feedback based on your domains.

 

[chain_reactor]

Any suggestions where to sell the lesser valued domains in Bulk at?

 

[Name Trader]

NamePros or DNF

 

[VURG]

eBay or Forums. Forums are probably safer to test the waters.

 

[Diabro]

I think, as others have stated, you should categorize them. Decide on your top 10% and take half of them for a long term hold. Take the other half of the top 10% for single sales. Then split some of your worst ones into groups and sell in groups.

The rest would be single sales.

Good luck.

 

[Seabass]

I think, as others have stated, you should categorize them. Decide on your top 10% and take half of them for a long term hold. Take the other half of the top 10% for single sales. Then split some of your worst ones into groups and sell in groups.

The rest would be single sales.

Good luck.

As a side note on categorization, you may want to look for domains with similarities, meaning "cosmetics", "outdoors", "computers", "music", etc.... and try to sell those as a set, which I believe would be worth more in that case.

If you find one savvy bidder at Yahoo or Google that knows his stuff and just cold call him I bet you could unload them.....or even....another domainer here that just wants to diversify by grabbing a chuck of "category" traffic in a niche he or she is weak in.

 

[cache]

don't buy thousands until you figure out a way to sell them.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Everyone has their names listed for sale in Sedo. That does not make a sale. Millions of names for sale there, yet only a dozen or so sale daily. Most domainers have tons of names they are trying to sale.

 

[spinnyglen]

I love to buy whole portfolios pm me with income and price

 

[VURG]

It does depend on the names however. If they are all great, it may be best to hold. It may be good to get some trustworthy people to give private valuations on your portfolio.

don't buy thousands until you figure out a way to sell them.

Great advice!

 

[David at NameMedia]

PIWH1000:

If you (or anybody else) is interested, I'd be happy to set-up some time with one of our domain sales executives (BuyDomains / AfternicDLS have 15 domain sales executives). The purpose would be to establish a sales strategy and to see if we could assist you, given what your sales objectives are. If you are interested, definitely feel free to PM and we can coordinate a time that works best for you.

Hope to hear from you and good luck with your sales plans!

David

 

[longroad]

I agree with who said to categorize them. Get your top 10%, bottom 10% and list them for sale. then try the middle ones.
post them here at the forum.. I for one would be interested

 

[dax44]

i to am in the position where i too have become a domain hoarder dreaming of inventing web3.0 to populate my domains with original jokes, captivating blogs, self generating adventure tales etc. - it is not happening .... and I continue to register more than I sell

so if the non-premium ones are good to batch up and sell on forums ..
where is best to sell the pearls? Is there a (serious) agency out there capable of taking over a portfolio and chasing the dollars on 3letter .coms etc. ???

thanks

paul

 

[zero_haze_au]

Personally I would submit all the premium names to Live Auctions with Moniker.

As for the remainder, categorize them and sell them in bundles to bulk buyers via Domain Forums such as NamePros.

Do you have portfolio listed publicly?

 

[gamenz]

well this is a better idea, you dont need to list them here or there.. make a text, doc file of what you got and have a link to it.

ever one can see and you can start selling.. i am interested to see what you got and perhaps buy!!

cheers