Domain Magnate

Hey all,

I sell domains through forums quite frequently and always try to improve my sales threads and techniques, so I thought I’d share a few tips here in hopes that it will be useful. This post will mostly contain general tips, for more specific advice watch for the next posts in the series.

Include your terms.

This is quite important to prevent any disputes, or misunderstandings. Also to protect yourself from scammers and save time. I usually include something like this at the beginning of my sales threads:

- All prices are temporary and sale may end without prior notice
- Payments by bank wire, escrow, paypal (masspay, or add 4%), moneybookers, e-gold - all fees paid by the buyer, payment must be processed within 2 days.
- Bulk discounts are possible only if you buy 3 or more domains domains, pm for details.
- Please use who.is/domain.com to check registrar and expiry dates where not listed. All names should have at least 2 months till expiration read more »

I got about 8-10 emails from this person for different domains over the last couple months. I replied to a few asking to stop bothering me because I dont sell my domains cheap, but it clearly didn’t help.

I noticed that you are the owner of pirh.com. I am currently looking to buy these type of domains and am willing to offer you $200 US if you wish to sell. I can provide an instant, hassle free payment through PayPal.

If you have any questions or wish to proceed with this sale please feel free to contact me at any time.

Best regards
David Williams
PO Box 481
Goodna Qld 4300
AUSTRALIA
Ph: +617 3294 6889
Fax: +617 3036 6406
Email/MSN ID: david@rhev.com

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Few interesting numeric sales recently, from dnjornal

93.com $75,000 Pvt Sale
249.com $92,000 Sevent.com
848.com $24,000 RickLatona.com
085.com $10,503 Sedo
452.net $1,500 AfternicDLS
431.net $1,120 AfternicDLS

New cool high for CVCV.com domains, mope.com recently reached $9k on sedo

It’s a top cvcv with a million google results, but nowhere as good as dato.com, which we sold for $9k!

TDVR.com, the largest LLLL.com sales database was sold off at sedo
today for $3050.

Lets hope the new owner keeps the good work of daily updates on the site

On TDVR.com you will find LLLL domain sales comps, LLLL domain sales history, LLLL domain sales comparisons and LLLL domain sales comparables, LLLL domain auction results and LLLL statistical charts.

We have more than 11950 LLLL.com domain sales stored

Alexa traffic rank of: 233.900

The Silent Auction of the TRAFFIC show just ended and the total sales was just over $737,000, with DomainRegistration.com selling for $376K.  I would assume at that price it was picked up by a registrar rather than a domainer.

In all 195 domains sold

Here are the sales:

Title Bid

domainregistration.com $376,480.00

undies.com $70,590.00

lonelywives.com $35,300.00

grammas.com $28,481.00

kitchenette.com $17,650.00

Q1.com $17,500.00

553.com $14,242.00

vpr.com $11,399.00

refrigerated.com $10,360.00

ringtone.mobi $10,000.00

loseweight.info $5,890.00

saxophonist.com $5,890.00 read more »

An interesting series of posts by Rick here:

What makes a domain sellable?
What makes a domain sellable part 2
What makes a domain sellable, part 3
What makes a domain sellable, part 4

Some good tips there and I can agree with most. Domains with clear and obvious use are much easier to sell. They are however harder to find at good prices.

Short domains may have less possible development ideas, but they are a great collectible item which value will only go up.

TOA.com - Sells for $35,300 on NameJet, a little higher than I’ve expected, bt a fair price indeed.

This domain initiated a long discussion over at namepros about its value

More namejet sales this week:

clash.com $30,500

iart.com $16,694

mkc.com $11,000

ewomen.com $8,901 read more »

Here is the fifth monthly Recent LLLL.com Sales compilation. LLLL.com’s are the most frequently traded domaining commodity on all forums and auctions and it’s thus crucial to be up to date with the quickly changing prices.

The list includes last 3-5 days of sales on different venues based on TDVR database and NP sales thread.

CVCV.com’s and 3 letter repeating LLLL.com’s remain the most wanted among 4L’s.  Minimum price for  quad premiums is about $325, while without  F and H they usually go up to $350-400 and more.

SnapNames

aavp.com $184
gdcv.com $79
GGXG.com $254
vvnv.com $214
xtwe.com $33
yfqp.com $33
yqcu.com $33
yzve.com $33
ayiu.com $81
bonm.com $365
bskm.com $85
cxbu.com $31
Hily.com $1,050
jifa.com $3,200
lzxp.com $40
mzdk.com $40
oyxt.com $36
rurw.com $84
sivy.com $60 read more »

I recently spotted this domain on DNF and it caught my attention. Not only because it’s a top female name and a great domain, but mostly because the high contrast in prices.

The seller claims to have paid over $50K for the name and the reserve on the greatdomains auction is only in the 1-5K euro range.  This is a high risk and from my experience GreatDomains auction is among the worst places to take that kind of risk at.

I certanly wish EarlBarrett good luck  with the sale, but  I’m afraid the auction won’t reach that high