On Wednesday, Liao.com fetched $118,888 over at NameJet, with 8 $50k+ bids. Today, Yin.com ended at $71,100 (Reserve Not Met) after 404 bids from 368 bidders (once again, several $50k+ bids) and at the moment of writing, Liu.com is at $39,100 after 339 bids from 329 bidders.
Archive | Domaining Tips
Quick Tip: Track the Time You Spend Online!
Posted on 07 November 2012 by Andrei
As domainers, we’re probably all guilty of often thinking that we’re working even though the online activities we’re spending time on are anything but what one could consider work.
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When Pitching to Domainers, Don’t Use End User Arguments
Posted on 31 October 2012 by Andrei
Maybe it’s just me but I always find emails from domainers who try to sell me domains by using end user arguments irritating. I’m a RESELLER, so I’m interested in buying domains in order to ultimately sell them to someone else at a profit.
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Quick Tip: Forward Email Messages to Your Main Account
Posted on 27 October 2012 by Andrei
Most of us have more than one email account and as a business owner as well as a domainer, it’s inevitable in my case as well. After all, displaying email@project1.com on the “Contact Us” page of project2.com wouldn’t exactly appear all that professional.
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Most New gTLDs Will Have a Serious LIQUIDITY Problem
Posted on 24 October 2012 by Andrei
As most of you know, I specialize in the reseller market and keep in touch with a lot of active resellers. Most of them made money with dot com alternatives but all of their stories (and my personal experience confirms them) have something in common: selling domains in other gTLDs on the reseller market is exponentially harder than selling dot coms!
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Domains Are Risk Assets and Prices Fluctuate Accordingly
Posted on 22 October 2012 by Andrei
A lot of people were surprised that domains fell in value over the past couple of years but let’s not forget that leaving parking earnings aside, the reseller market is and always will be affected by the international economic climate.
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Reseller Pricing vs. End User Pricing
Posted on 28 August 2012 by Andrei
Last week, I offered to broker domains at a 3% commission but explained that the domain(s) should have a reseller market value of at least 25k. Unfortunately, it seems most domainers don’t understand the difference between reseller pricing and end user pricing.
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Before Negotiating, Make Sure Your Domain Is Still Registered
Posted on 26 August 2012 by Andrei
Here’s a little story about how I bought a domain at regfee because I noticed that the owner forgot to renew it (yep, the “seller” and I negotiated for a domain that was available at regfee haha). Everything happened via Sedo, I was looking for domains related to a certain niche for an upcoming project, found a good one and started the negotiation process.
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For Most gTLDs, There Won’t Be a Reseller Market
Posted on 23 August 2012 by Andrei
If there’s one thing I’m certain of, it’s this: for most gTLDs (the overwhelming majority), there won’t be a reseller market. Period. I made money with dot net domains, I made money with dot tv domains (ok, dot tv is a ccTLD but pretty much everyone uses it as a gTLD) and so on but all of these investments had one thing in common: selling domains to resellers was a LOT harder than selling dot coms.
Sometimes, the $1.18 GoDaddy Coupons Work for Transfers!
Posted on 03 January 2012 by Andrei
I admit, I had no idea until I found out today and never tried this since the terms of each $1.18 coupon state that it won’t work for renewals and transfers. Well, it turns out these coupons sometimes do work for transfers as well.
