4 ms·
A domain like usethesource.com will not be easy to sell. The audience of possible buyers for a domain like that is quite limited. That being said, the best thin
by cyphersanctus 14y ago
A domain like usethesource.com will not be easy to sell. The audience of possible buyers for a domain like that is quite limited. That being said, the best thing you can do to sell it is put it on sedo and godaddy with a low BIN price. You can also email site owners that could be interested in the subject of your domains. Though again, a brandable domain like the one you posted will most likely not be attractive for a person who has already established his business. If you have generic domains, the story is quite different. A good generic .com domain will give you great results in an auction. You can check with the adwords keyword tool to see hou many exact match searches are done for your domain keywords every month. If youre looking at anything below 10k searches, its not a good domain. My personal expectation, being a long time domainer, is to have more than 160k exact searches per month.
In my experience, the best results i´ve had have been through Sedo. I´ve sold 26k usd with just 6 domain sales. They were generics and I just put an "asking for" price and let offers come through. You have to be patient though.
- white_devil 14y agoI hope you someday want to start a business and find out the domain you want is held hostage by a squatter.
- ohashi 14y agoInteresting choice of words - 'held hostage' - as if you have some prior right to it and it was taken from you. That's a pretty self centered world you're living in.
- white_devil 14y agoSo you're a domain squatter then?
- ohashi 14y agoI made a living from buying/selling domain names. I don't have qualms about paying money for a better brand name for my businesses. I don't have a problem with buying low and selling high. I don't think the world owes me anything and I certainly don't believe other people are holding things hostage from me when I never owned them nor had any rightful claim to them. Grow up.
- white_devil 14y agoI made a living from buying/selling domain names. Well that wasn't too hard to guess, huh? -Sad.
- ohashi 14y agoHow I made my living has no relevance to the stupidity of your statement that you are somehow entitled to something you never owned or had any right to. There are a lot of legitimate arguments but yours isn't one.
- white_devil 14y agoA legitimate argument? Do we really need to go through why domain squatting is bad? It's quite obvious, but alright then. - You have a business idea. - You come up with a great domain name for your company. One that's relevant to what you're doing, and clever too! - You go online hoping to buy that domain. - You find out it's been taken by someone.. - .. but not for the purpose of actually *doing* something with it. He's just holding it from you, hoping he can make you pay dearly for it. Bottom line: the domain name that would be perfect for your new business should cost you something like ten dollars. You'd buy it, and happily continue getting shit done. But now that the squatter has it, it costs you thousands of dollars, just because Fuck You. That's Bad, mm'kay?
- ohashi 14y agoThere is this nice empty plot of land without a house on it. I should be able to pay next to nothing for it because nobody is using it. Forget everyone else who might have been interested in the past. Forget the current owner who bought it legitimately. I deserve it because I want it and don't want to pay a fair market price for it.
- ohashi 14y agoI think this is the most relevant advice here. I've been buying/selling domains for about a decade now. Leaving it up for sale on sedo and also listing the domain for sale on the site itself are two ways people generally sell names. There are a lot of other marketplaces (GoDaddy, Afternic being the biggest after Sedo) to list on as well. Most aren't worth a damn (other than those 3 I have heard almost no success stories). If you think there is real end demand or really want to liquidate you can consider some of the newsletters that go out daily to thousands of buyers(toby clements, eric rice). Or post them on domain forums (dnforum, namepros) or webmaster forums that have a domain section (digitalpoint, webhostingtalk).