Selling Domains on eBay?

[PEERless]

Out of curiosity, I sought out the most expensive item on eBay. Wouldn't you know it was a "portfolio" of 5 car-related domains with "good traffic" and "high appraised values" being sold for a few million bucks.

No bidders.

I wonder if any of you squatters or parkers have had any luck pawning off domains on eBay or some similar market.

I own just shy of twenty domains, but I own them for me and my perceived ability to create value with them. We all know that something is only worth what someone is willing to pay, and people aren't exactly banging down my door with offers.

Is it fastlane to buy domains for $9.99 and sell them on eBay? Even if I can't get millions, the overhead seems pretty low.

Then again, it seems the savvy web developers have their own ideas and register their own domains... How is the secondary market for such a thing?

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I've been noticing there are 2 groups of people ... those that know the real value of the domains and sell them at a modest premium (say 500% gain) and those that don't ... they try to sell junk domains for $1,000's when at best, they are worth $100.

I see retards advertising "my-domain-website-for-you.biz" and wanting $500 for the POS. Makes me laugh. No wonder there are ZERO bids.

You can find some awesome domain names in the secondary market: I just bought a five letter, single word web2.0 name for $49 bucks a few months ago.

I find a lot of good deals on the SitePoint marketplace ... some real gems hidden in there and many are under $100. I see people selling worse domains for 100X more.

As for your question, NO it isn't Fastlane. You stop selling domains, your income stops. The exception is if your domain portfolio is worth millions and parked earning arbitrage money ... or sold for millions ... then you sell and collect interest on your millions.

 

[veli]

MJ: Thanx for mentioning Stiepoint. I had never heard of it before you mentioned it (not that Ive searched much for domainsites/names for sale), but I have looked at it and it looks interesting. Now its just about finding the right site Are there any other sites, similar to sitepoint that is any good?

 

[Mrs. BRKb]

Is it fastlane to buy domains for $9.99 and sell them on eBay? Even if I can't get millions, the overhead seems pretty low.

I looked at ebay last week after folks mentioned 99 cent domain names.

It was a good exercise, going through all the names for sale. Some have initial attraction, but then one can see, they're garbage for SEO. It's a good filtering task to develop ones domaining skills.

You can also put names on your watch list and see what they end up going for.

I did buy a couple names. The time it took was worth it from the bootcamp perspective, but otherwise probably not.

One idea might be to buy a 99 cent name there and sell it for more. But that's way not fastlane.

 

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[PEERless]

Thanks for the simple, thoughtful responses. I agree 100%. I thought those eBayers were shooting in the dark.

 

[Mrs. BRKb]

I just searched ebay's completed auctions
with the keyword "domain".

Looks like the highest sold of late there was
$15,000 and then some $2,500 and $1,000
ones as the next general price point.

On the other hand, if you have a classic name
worth $15k, should it be sold??

 

[PEERless]

Yeah. I think MJ referred to un-hyphenated dot-coms as the Boardwalks of the Monopoly game of web property. It certainly seems that they are a scarce resource whose values will increase as supply declines.

 

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[bikola_p]

ebay sucks for domain sales etc

 

[PEERless]

LOL... that's a pretty broad statement. What would be better?

 

[Dejan M]

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