Getting into the domain business is tough. With an average sell-through rate of 1.5%, you need around 100 domains to make a sale if you are just putting up a lander and listing it in the registration pathway. So how would you get started now? Here is how I would do it. The same way I did. You find hand registrations or BIN (Buy It Now) sales and flip them at auctions. Auctions on Atom, NameJet, DropCatch, or Dynadot. One of the advantages Atom has right now is that there are no expiry names, so all the names are grouped together. Same with DropCatch, although it is clearly listed as a private sale. Expiry names, for some reason, tend to go for more, and places like Dynadot keep them in separate buckets. This makes it a little harder to sell.
If I were doing it now, I would be spending hours hunting for a name to buy for $50 and hoping to flip it for $100. That is not a ton of money, but it is profit. If you can do this three or four times a week, it adds up. Plus, you get experience on what types of names sell, essentially learning as you go. When I started, NameJet was great because all the expiry names and regular names were mixed together, and you had no idea which was which. All names were gauged purely on the quality of the name, not how it came to auction. To me, a name is a name, but I respect that most people do not feel that way. That is how it was, and it was great for flipping small names. I did 30 to 40 a month that way. I think I could do it again on Atom if I had to. I have also seen Dynadot really growing, and the number of eyeballs is 10 times what it was a few years ago. Kudos to them as well. All of these auction houses are adding liquidity and opportunity for new domain investors.
Some Interesting Links
World’s hardest material? Sea Snail Teeth
The Death of Daydreaming Fewer and fewer people are getting into the daydream state
Amateur Athletes are starting to use Ozempic
How India is getting riders to pay for Train tickets
Best use of a Boston Dynamics robot I’ve seen yet. At Disney
Quote of the Day: “Liquidity is oxygen for a market. Without it, prices can’t move efficiently, and participants can’t breathe.”
— Josh Wolfe
Domain of the Day: SpeakerNotes.ai At $100 BIN solid name for note taking app
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Dynadot
Swipo.com I always question. Do I want Swippo (SWIP O) or Swipo (SWIPE O)
AI.kids All TLDs with the keyword AI have value
AI.gay Same here
BDNU.com At only $100 at press time
BuckPay.com A lot worse names I’ve seen for $10
WaterHorse.com Means nothing to me but still like it as a brand
Get.ink Tattoo name all the way
DeepChain.io Blockchain likes dot io. Although they have been gravitating to xyz lately
Namejet
Safes.com Its a tough ship but there are those who are selling safes online
SteamClean.com Only one can own it. Thousands do it
Bodyshop.org fixing cars or fixing bodies
UG.org Always like seeing the going rate for LL.orgs
LookBeyond.com Future and forward thinking
GolfHelp.com Do I ever need it
HiveHouse.com I’ve had a few people try and sell me this even though its at auction. Like I don’t check Namejet every day
MountainHigh.com A lot of use cases here. Outdoors and Colorado cannabis come to mind first
BuildingForSale.com I can see this domain on commercial realty signs
TemporaryStaffing.com Big business as we talked about on Sherpa. Not very many bids
Atom – Active Auctions
Wuk.ai No reserve at $50
MegaCup.com No reserve as well. 6 bidders
URWU.com Didn’t hit reserve so moved to BIN of $337. Some will call this pronounceable
A ton of upcoming names soon. Not much to choose from today See what is coming for auction HERE
Sedo
ReshapeTheWorld.com Met reserve at $110
FFXF.com Solid opening offer that met reserve
NightTickets.com Specializing in events at night?
Hauling.ai Pretty good one word for $150 BIN
LoveHiring.com Met reserve at $30
FFY.ai Cheapest LLL.ai listed at Sedo $250
OVU.ai A prounceable listed at $399 EUR
Catched
Stack.at Not a fan of .at but Stack is a great keyword
Expiry.live Live expiring domains
Global.cash I always forget about dot cash. Global payments
AI.catering We get to see if AI really does have value in every TLD
Verde.es “Green” in Spanish and .es is Spanish
FreePorno.es Spain likes porn too
Echinacea.es Echinacea is the correct word in many languages and in Spanish is equinacea
OPP.today must be some great backlinks with this price
Godaddy Domains with Bids
9886.com This is a 25K plus name. Would not be surprised to see it hit $40K
Wiiz.com Cool form of Wiz
BestOfCanada.com Gretzky Bieber and who else?
Lazic.com Just don’t use for eye stuff
VirtualHomeStaging.com Where most people find homes and virtual staging is the future. Going to be surprised in person though
VentureBase.com Venture is the key here
NinjaPay.com Pay names are flying. Won’t be cheap
CardTraders.com I thought trading cards would calm down. Still as hot as ever
UXAgency.com Agency is the sexy buzzword right now
GolfCartShop.com Can’t get more descriptive and SEO than this
MyShowcase.com Showcase anything
TrackFeed.com Used to be a site and has 1.4M backlinks. Great name for horses or track and field
GetStickers.com Call to action gets it done in the big sticker business
BrandMethod.com marketing company all the way
MediaGlobal.com Sounds European. US would be Global Media but in European languages the adjective is often after the noun
Godaddy Names with 1 or NO Bids
Other GoDaddy Names With More Than One Bid
19286.com
6092.cc
6203.cc
75059.com
7777Go.com
83356.com
90480.com
92475.com
92480.com
93466.com
93480.com
9886.com
AlcoholicRehab.com
ArcadeStyle.com
asiaex.com
AustinHomeSandCondos.com
BeEncouraged.com
BeStofCanada.com
BitcoinNews.co
BrandMethod.com
brbets.com
businessnews-bd.com
caihao.com
CardTraders.com
CheapDoctor.com
CommonThreads.com
CoralRestaurant.com
DeliGallery.com
dqea.com
EasyHow.com
EliteSeoMarketing.com
esoticomiami.com
FestivalEuroCine.com
FujiHouse.com
GenRise.com
GeorginaRomanStudio.com
GetStickers.com
goaloo1.com
GolfCartShop.com
GoPackaging.com
harranovasi.com
HarryJosh.com
HostAccess.com
icsehub.com
imbahost.com
Irrational.org
ketquaxoso24.com
lazic.com
lecapsole.com
livedosti.com
MaceConstruction.com
MatHedge.org
MediaGlobal.com
MotoMate.com
mxtq.com
MyShowcase.com
NetRockDeals.com
NinjaPay.com
NotaGamer.net
nutriminimart.com
offernutra.com
PortBrewing.com
PostAlbLogs.com
PotStuff.com
PressPogo.com
RobinsChicks.com
roydenhollander.com
ruev.com
rvessentials.com
ScientificVentures.com
SheetMetal.net
smsai.com
snapedtoolkit.org
TaxTechnology.com
TeenNetwork.com
ThePinkGiraffeHouse.org
TheScoopBeats.com
TrackFeed.com
tvmg.com
uakp.com
uq7.com
uxagency.com
vaskers.com
vcgb.com
VentureBase.com
vetripadigal.com
VirtualHomeStaging.com
wdlu.com
WeedWhiskey.com
wiiz.com
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What % of all your sales do you think come from your lander pages?
Not that I’ve sold a lot of names over the years but all my sales have come from the lander pages.
All my landers are Afternic and Atom and 100% of my sales have come through them. I don’t do self landers as I list on Atom and Afternic for very high prices
So, you don’t even have to be involved in negotiating with the buyer – correct?
They just pay the BuyItNow Price in most cases?
That’s Great
For names with BIN pricing (especially sub $10k names), they almost always sell at the BIN price in my experience. When there is negotiation, it will always be via a broker at either platform rather than with the actual buyer.