20 November 2019

What is happening with expired domains

What do you think, for how much can you sell a domain named monalisa.com? Made a number? How close were you to 200 thousand dollars? This is the market value of the given name. And not the most expensive ...

So is it possible to sell an attractive website address for 100 or 100,000 dollars? Of course. But they have already been snapped up by tycoons and successful projects. Although, maybe you will attract attention with an equally original and memorable option. Therefore, a new type of earnings - selling domain names - is becoming quite popular and profitable.

You need to understand that not every name can be sold for a couple of zeros of dollars, and it is not possible to buy a good name in time. Demand is great and if you bought some good name, you can not wait until it is freed. You can, of course, try to come to an agreement, but a separate article should be devoted to this topic, and now we will consider options where you can sell an already unnecessary domain name.

Options, places, ways

Person-to-person: Two options:

You yourself posted an ad on the network and a buyer was found.

We found a purchase offer and contacted a potential customer.

Selling domains in these ways is risky - you can find many examples and angry complaints on the Internet about how someone “threw” someone with the sale. And all because in the case of "man-man" someone will have to take the first step. Or you re-register your domain name to the buyer, and then he transfers the money to you. Or vice versa. And here someone can cheat.

"Intermediary Services." You can sell a domain at auction. Services of this type are the guarantor of a fair transaction. The seller leaves a request and additional information about his domain name. Then it remains to wait for the buyer. The advantages of such services is that transactions are quick and both parties are insured against losses.

On the example of SEDO

How to sell a domain name according to the "person-to-person" formula is more than understandable. But when working with auctions, some people have questions: what is needed to register; How to put a domain for sale; How do I know if someone wants to buy it?

It all depends on the service to which you turned for help. Let's consider the option of selling a domain at a specialized auction.

There are a large number of services on the Internet that help you find a buyer for your domain. You can choose the one with which, in your opinion, will be convenient to work with. To sell domains through auctions, you need to go through a simple registration and confirm your account via phone or a written contract.

After activating the account, additional menu fields will become available: how to sell a domain, buy, renew, etc. Choose a cell that interests you, and the service will ask you to enter information about the domain: name, price. Then it remains to wait for confirmation from the service. After approval, your "lot" will appear in the proposals. This is a typical scheme that most auctions operate on.

Recommendations

Options, how to sell, you already know. Read about their pros and cons. Perhaps they even chose a service or forum where to sell a domain name.

A few recommendations on how best to crank up a deal and what to look for:

Selling a domain to an outsider by verbal agreement is at your own risk. Only if you make sure that the client is reliable and he is satisfied with the option “money ahead”.

The price largely depends on the parameters of age, authority, domain links. The more “+” in the “green zone” (that is, good indicators), the more zeros in the price per address.

Before the sale, evaluate the domain parameters, so that in case of an incorrect display in time to make changes.