Selling domains and website names on eBay is a small margin business that many people approach very wrong. It is important to know that what is cute to you is not a value to others.
Some important questions to ask yourself to determine the true value of a name before you think to buy it for resale is:
1. Is the plural form of the same name still for sale, if so your version isn’t worth much?
2. If you say the name can it be typed in correctly in one try? This means that 4nicelimos.com isn’t worth much at all since it also sounds the same as fornicelimos.com, thus making it easier to mistype.
3. If its not ‘.com’, it better be a great name or its worthless.
4. If its hyphenated, it also better be amazing or it’s worthless, my-date.com is an example of “not worthless”.
5. If it’s a copyrighted name, then its useless to any real large bidder to buy, example is freewalmart.com is not going to get any real investor to risk tampering with.
You can start a simple Ebay shop is 9$ a month, and a shop listing is about 4 cents for 30 days. So not that expensive concerning the return on investment that a smart domainer can get.
Listings are a snap to upload through “Turbo Lister”, so there is no real hassle.
http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/
A few of the difficulties you will face are:
Its difficult to get buyers to bid (except the snipers at auction end)
It’s difficult to make buyers find you.
With these main fact in mind the first goal is to open the paths to your auctions to insight bidding, watching and sales of other non auction domains from your marketing.
* Try adwords (depending on the domain, some keywords are dirt cheap)
* Try direct marketing
* Forums
Within Ebay: Drop the keyword of the domain in the next most fitting category; myapple.com can be in computers as well.
To have prepared banner space or ad space that you can update from one location for new auctions would be smart. So next time you sell: “buyjunk.com”, you can swap out one include file and have the banners and links on 10 sites you run switch to “buyjunk.com is for sale!” banners and ads. I also always used a custom this page and other for sale landing page to put on domains currently for sale.
Don’t forget to put affiliate links for domain grabbing software on those pages too to get those domain hunters as shoppers while they look.
Some insight inspired by 1plus.net authors, visit them to learn more.