Your Own Domain Selling Website...Work or Not

[Nattydomain]

I see some people (inluding myself but a free one) have their own website set up to showcase their names for sale. Here is my question...

For those that have a site do you get sales from that OR honestly is it more from forums and auction sites. I know it could bring exposure to your names as the site would be indexed in search engines BUT im looking for solid sales direct from the site.

Please advise if the site was built mainly for promotion of names OR your main source of selling your names.

Thanx

 

[HcDomains]

I have my own domain selling site for about 7 months already. Nerver promote it, a few traffic.

I got 3 offers from my site till today and only one sales happen. That is not bad fro me since nerver promote it. I am planning to re-brand my site and start promition soon later

 

[Domainate.com]

I've gotten a few offers from my site in about 8 or 9 months too. One of them was a dude who wanted to buy a bulk of my names, but we never managed to work out a deal. I just got the last of the offers yesterday, some guy trying to get a good quality LLL.net for minimum wholesale...yea right bro! Oh well though...right now, my site is more or less a placeholder vs. what will eventually go on it.

 

[verbster]

My site has simply been where I keep my domains so they're indexed by the search engines. With luck, customers will search for them before typing in the address bar and getting a parking page. Ideally, I would also host a mini site for each page, but that hasn't happened yet.

In the meantime, sales are about 50% from the site and the rest from Sedo and such. There's no question that NP forums lead people to it..maybe just to look. I suppose it would help to promote it, but I'm just now upgrading to accounts so others can stick a few names there just for exposure. Barely even have any domains relisted yet. Should be ready to beta in a day or two. Of course, that's a whole new ballgame having others use the site...we'll see how it works for a while and see if it's a hassle.

Of course, my fantasy is that some rich cat will visit and offer me a lump sum for the whole thing...would suit me fine to get out of this crazy business.

 

[Nattydomain]

Ok..I will prob get my own site goin in a month or so.....I guess I will take it as promotion for the site and bring them to sedo poss.....

Any other responses please

 

[BinderGang]

Anyone have a good script for one of these sites? I've seen some posted back a few months, but can't seem to find it....

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I have my own site listed in my sig. I got a lot more sales from my site when my domains were parked on it, but I still get a couple a month even without that. I moved parking to sedo and fabulous because it wasn't as feasible from my site.

The advantages of having your own site are:
1. A central repository for your names that you control
2. It adds credibility that you are a free standing business besides listing on sedo/AN. If a buyer has a problem or wants to buy again they know where to return to.
3. The search engines can find your names.
4. You can put affiliate links and hopefully create another small income stream.
5. If you have any seller policies or procedures, you can list them there for consistency.
6. You can list the site with directories or other sites for incoming links which hopefully lead to additional traffic.
7. You may get some direct sales on which you don't have to pay commissions or escrow fees.

 

[VURG]

~ 20-25% of my sales, I think.

 

[Jackie]

Anyone have a good script for one of these sites? I've seen some posted back a few months, but can't seem to find it....

Try SecondVersion.com's Domain Name Portfolio. http://www.secondversion.com/domain-port/

Can't wait for version 0.5.0 to come out with the new theme, categories, and search functions! Right now, the version 0.4.3 is stable but quite rudimentary.

 

[verbster]

There's another script available, but I can't remember who sells it. It;s the one that several sites use, like auctionyourdomain(dot)name, I think.

Some NP'er will know.

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

I had the desire to create my own page and then I did not stop there. I built www.FreeNameExchange.com with the help of our beloved NamePros community to make domain selling and buying free to domainers.

Everyone gets their own domain name portfolio when they sign up for a free account and the site provides you with a link to share your domains with others. Why link to SEDO where there are transaction fees? Why not link to www.FreeNameExchange.com portfolio where its free and offers more features.

Here is mine:

http://www.freenameexchange.com/browse.php?show=user&letter=&id=3&order=tld&sort=desc

If you want to make suggestions, the site is going for a first round of revisions and I taking into consideration what every NP member has to say:

http://www.namepros.com/for-sale-ad...ram-domainers.html?highlight=freenameexchange