Selling Domain names?

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tight fart

Original Poster:

3,230 posts

288 months

Monday 25th September 2023
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Has anybody here had any joy selling a domain name?
I’ve had a few short .com domains for years thinking one day they would make me millions.
All I do is renew them each year, so if I were to try to offload them where should I start?

LooneyTunes

8,254 posts

173 months

Monday 25th September 2023
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You could try the likes of Sedo.

I've bought several via them but got bored of waiting for surplus ones I had listed with them to sell and, in the end, just killed them off.

tight fart

Original Poster:

3,230 posts

288 months

Thursday 28th September 2023
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Thanks LT, popped them on there.

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2,551 posts

152 months

Sunday 18th May
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Holy thread resurrection.

I seemed to have hoarded some domains that loosely meant something to me when I bought them. They were mostly bought through GoDaddy so I put some of them for sale on Afternic (part of the same co.) back in August 2022 and forgot about them.

14th May I got an email saying a (.com) domain had sold for $3000 (buy-it-now style). Buyer had already paid, domain transferred and I would soon get a bank transfer - and I did on 16th. It looked almost a dodgy email.

There was a chunky fee to pay ($900!) and smaller fees for US/UK transfers and exchanges etc. I got £1521.98 in my account. I went straight out and bought the .co.uk and .net (obviously the buyer could have done the same, but the holding page does seem to be a UK business).

This was a 6-character .com and although not a real word, is an increasingly common, down-with-the-kids misspelling of a word and reads as one.

Worth sticking any old domains up for sale as you never know - even if it takes a while.

eein

1,469 posts

280 months

Wednesday 21st May
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Anyone got experience of selling a domain registered with uk2? I've got a 4 letter .co.uk from the early days that I don't use anymore.