If you have domain names or a whole domain name portfolio that you want to sell, this is the category to visit and learn from. Topics include domain name marketplaces, email outreach, landing pages, and much more.
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One of the most popular interviews on DomainSherpa is Andrew Rosener, who has developed an equation to determine the end user value for premium generic .com domain names.
This article summarizes Rosener’s hour-long video interview in an easy-to-read format, with input variables defined and updated.
Michael Cyger July 17, 2011
Buying a domain name may cost more than you are willing or able to spend; instead consider these four alternatives to buying a domain name:
1. Leasing
2. Rent to own
3. Giving a piece of the company
4. Partnership
All come with pros and cons. Make an informed decision.
Astrid William June 12, 2011
Have you ever been bored at work, school or home? The next time you’re bored, think about this interview.
After years of adding content to Bored.com, Eric Borgos was able to sell his domain name, website and traffic of 70,000 daily visitors for $4.5 million – a 10x multiple of earnings. In the process, he gained some financial security for his family.
Michael Cyger June 7, 2011
In the domain world, Sedo is considered one of the top domain name marketplaces. It leads DN Journal’s domain sales list almost every week and runs the domain industry’s leading domain auctions, promoting the top domain extensions and the world’s greatest premium domain names.
In order to sell a domain name on Sedo, you must have an active account. Are you ready to take the next step? Soon enough you will list your first domain name on Sedo. The images below will guide you through the steps to open a new Sedo account and to list a domain name.
Hundreds of millions of domain names have been sold in the past, yet the future of the domain name industry is based on our ability to bring additional services into the industry, such as insurance, titles, initial public offerings or stock exchanges. This requires a standard methodology and formula for valuing domain names.
Andrew Rosener has taken a brave step forward to share his domain name valuation methodology. Andrew’s methodology is not the final say; it is the start of the discussion. Watch the interview, test his formula and contribute to the conversation by suggesting methodology improvements in the comments.
Michael Cyger May 17, 2011
Domain names are bought and sold every day, often with no legal problems. Just because you have not had a legal snafu, however, does not mean your purchase or sale rights are sufficiently safeguarded.
Currently there is no open-source legal agreement to reference in domain name purchases. Until today, that is. My objective in providing this template is to make the domain name sales process easier for both sides.
Michael Cyger May 15, 2011
Domainers – individually and collectively – have to start thinking more strategically.
Until now, domainers have essentially been a rag-tag group of speculators – some more successful than others – who are largely focused on the one-off, tactical sale. As long as that mindset continues, we will be collectively responsible for ensuring that: a) outsiders’ perception of us remains poor, b) partnerships with major corporations are rare, and c) these asset prices never reach fair value.
Sales professionals understand that the best way to close a sale is to anticipate the buyer’s objections and make the pitch accordingly. In other words, they present the buyer with the product’s value proposition. This article suggests – and asks for feedback – on a standard value proposition for the domain name industry.
If you want to know how much a house is worth, there are a number of online tools that you can reference. Similarly, there are a number of online tools for determining the valuation of Internet real estate – domain names. Online valuation tools can help you determine the price of your domain name. The […]
Elliot Silver owns two companies and a lot of businesses, but he makes a majority of his revenue through domain name flipping. He constantly thinks of domain names to purchase and – when he decides he wants one – will almost always make an offer in his initial contact.
In this candid interview, Elliot shares a tremendous amount of information:
* How he discovers domains for purchase
* How he values domains
* Whether he “churns and burns” or tries to sell to an end-user
* How he finds end-users to contact
* How many domain name sales he focuses on at one time
* Why he uses both a written contract and escrow
* One $2,450 domain name investment gone bad and what he learned
And Elliot loves receiving reply emails from MAILER-DAEMON. Why? Opportunity. Listen to this interview to learn more.
Michael Cyger April 12, 2011
It’s easy to see how a domainer who early on registered short, generic domain names could be sitting on a business making millions per year. It’s also easy to see how someone could make millions with domain names purchased after the dot-com crash of 2000. But how does someone build a multi-million dollar domaining business today? Justin Godfrey knows how.
Michael Cyger April 5, 2011