question Your favorite Domain Marketplace for Selling Domains

[WebInvestments]

I have been observing domain sales thread here and saw many sales coming from Godaddy Auctions and Sedo, the majority from Godaddy Auctions I think. Congrats to all those successful sales fellas.

My questions are, which marketplace worked out well for you guys in terms of receiving inquiries and selling domains in the last three/four months? Godaddy Auctions, Sedo, or both? And for Godaddy Auctions site, which listing option has resulted best in bringing sales, normal listing or premium listing?

I ask this because I have not been actively listing my domains on Godaddy and now I am beginning to realize if I am missing anything big here.

 

[WebInvestments]

In addition to my original thread, do share (if it's OK):

1. average initial offer received on your favorite domain marketplace
2. average price you have sold domain(s) for

Again, if you wish not to share, I surely can respect that. But I just want to evaluate based on others' experience that which domain marketplace is performing better these days.

 

[WebInvestments]

Thoughts, anyone?

 

[Gladys]

Sedo

 

[Recons.Com]

Flippa, Godaddy so far.

Hate Sedo attitude and support. They are still riding the first entrant advantage, but they are down the hill and always reactive to changes in the industry.

 

[mirul]

Godaddy...

 

[LoneDeranger]

GD, but haven't made a sale yet, since all offers were the minimum offers I set (20$), and they're clearly not the price i'm actually asking.

 

[Haris]

Well, nothing has worked for me, I have posted my domains on Godaddy, Sedo, Afternic, Flippa, Bido, Freemarket and there might be others I can't remember. Oh yeah Namerific has the 'pending approval' status for 2 weeks I think. I am getting frustrated and can't figure out how can I get eyeballs on my listings? To clarify, I have posted the free listings on all sites except Godaddy because the fee is just 5$ per year and I can post as many domains I want for free. Even put 1 premium listing on Godaddy but it hasn't made a difference. I have started to think whether I should start a paid auction on Flippa but I am not sure because what if there isn't a higher enough bid or even no bids at all. The re-listing has also been limited to 1 per domain on Flippa.

How do you people get inquiries and offers? Please help.

 

[Recons.Com]

Well, nothing has worked for me, I have posted my domains on Godaddy, Sedo, Afternic, Flippa, Bido, Freemarket and there might be others I can't remember. Oh yeah Namerific has the 'pending approval' status for 2 weeks I think. I am getting frustrated and can't figure out how can I get eyeballs on my listings? To clarify, I have posted the free listings on all sites except Godaddy because the fee is just 5$ per year and I can post as many domains I want for free. Even put 1 premium listing on Godaddy but it hasn't made a difference. I have started to think whether I should start a paid auction on Flippa but I am not sure because what if there isn't a higher enough bid or even no bids at all. The re-listing has also been limited to 1 per domain on Flippa.

How do you people get inquiries and offers? Please help.

You should then revisit the quality of your portfolio. You should be selling 1-3% of your portfolio yearly, receiving offers for around 5% of those. It would be hard to get an offer for totallygeared.com. Revo.Agency would be hard to sell until there is a legal entity with the name Revo Agency that did not manage to get RevoAgency.com and/or its country's cctld...

 

[Haris]

Will try ebay after checking pricing and other stuff. I read on different blogs that it can lead to sales fast.

 

[Haris]

You should then revisit the quality of your portfolio. You should be selling 1-3% of your portfolio yearly, receiving offers for around 5% of those. It would be hard to get an offer for totallygeared.com. Revo.Agency would be hard to sell until there is a legal entity with the name Revo Agency that did not manage to get RevoAgency.com and/or its country's cctld...

You are absolutely right but hand-registering good names is really tough nowadays and I can't invest too much money to get a big portfolio or buy premium names for hundreds of dollars. I will try to get better names that are still available but I feel that before I invest more, I should make at least a few hundred dollar in sales.

 

[Haris]

Sedo

How much time does it take to get that first offer to get the auction to start? Or you start a direct auction for 60$?

 

[Recons.Com]

Sedo does not work for me. I have strong dislike for their customer service, attitude etc.
Handregs and buying premiums are not the only way to get names.