Comments on: Selling Your Domain Names Fast – Good Tips

By: DNLingo

DNLingo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:43:58 +0000

Tip #2 says… Pricing your domains results in 10x higher sales velocity.

This is probably the part that will make or break you as 50% of the domainers will not know a price to put on their domain names and the other 50% will overprice their domain names because they do not know how to price them.

I think this is why many portfolios list as “Make Offer”.

By: Pete Lamson

Pete Lamson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:31:52 +0000

Anonymous C:

Thanks for clarifying; I completely understand your question.

Each week, AfternicDLS releases a performance report that includes a recap of our previous week’s sales. While many of our sales are reported, many are also not reported as we honor domain purchase/sale privacy requests from either the buyer or seller in any transaction where confidentiality is requested.

This also means that comprehensive sales information reamins confidential, other than what we provide in our weekly report.

With respect to overall saleable inventory, we currently have approximately 2M names listed on AfternicDLS that are not owned by NameMedia.

I can share with you that we see our highest inventory turn velocity and median sales prices within com, net and org listings.

Pete

By: Pete Lamson

Pete Lamson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:49:32 +0000

Anonymous C:

Thanks for clarifying; I completely understand your question.

Each week, AfternicDLS releases a performance report on Domainer’s Advantage and other industry sites (often including Domain Name Wire) that includes a recap of our previous week’s sales. While many of our sales are reported, many are also not reported as we honor domain purchase/sale privacy requests from either the buyer or seller in any transaction where confidentiality is requested.

This also means that we do not supply comprehensive sales information, other than what we provide in our weekly report.

With respect to overall saleable inventory, we currently have approximately 2M names listed on AfternicDLS that are not owned by NameMedia.

I can share with you that we see our highest inventory turn velocity and median sales prices within com, net and org listings.

Pete

By: Viking

Viking — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:13:21 +0000

Hmmm… and BuyDomains own purchasing policies in the last few years has been to buy at about 5% of the domains’ estimated selling value. Smart!

By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:34:34 +0000

Nice post, all the buying tips looks to make sense.

By: Anonymous C

Anonymous C — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:22:14 +0000

Domain Investor, correct. Also, would like to know what % of Afternic’s inventory is not owned by BuyDomains/Namemedia?

By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:55:51 +0000

Quote -
“After you deduct their own portfolio(BuyDomains inventory, sales), what is the likelihood of a domain owner to sell via Afternic?”

Lamson quote -
“should expect to see an inventory turn in the 2% to 5% range”

I believe the initial poster was really asking -
What percentage of your weekly sales are non BuyDomains domains?

It would also be informative to know by units and dollars.