Best place to sell domain names
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Interested in this also. Got a domain I paid 5 figures for that I no longer need, would like to get shot of it sooner or later.
Where did you actively market them?
Where did you actively market them?
Generic domains never become popular/famous as a service. They tend to come up with their own unique name and branding, like Just Eat, Uber, Deliveroo, for example. A service as big as these would never have become so popular and well known with a name as plain as "takeawayfoods.com" etc.
I used to own apple.me.uk and bbc.me.uk a very long time ago but I let them drop because I was skint at the time.
I used to own apple.me.uk and bbc.me.uk a very long time ago but I let them drop because I was skint at the time.
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Think you should have bit their hand off for the 2k or countered for more and sold.
They all seem to generic to be worth anything of real value, I could be wrong, but I dont see value in them being bought and utilised.
I used to work for a domain registrar and web host many years ago, we hosted the domains for a rather mobile phone service provider who held about 900 domains with us, all normal domain uses and then variations and spelling mistakes of the domain.
If you have any of these, parking them to no where is the problem, if you pointed them to something then you'd stand a better chance of selling it to the company in question.
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I contacted end-user businesses and asked if they were interested.
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Ironically these are both registered sites with nothing on them
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Yes I did, and they never really moved on price.
What put me off, is they were in USA and I am in UK, and was not sure how to legally transfer the domain. At the time I mentioned it to my solicitor and they said they had never dealt with anything like this and could not recommend. I was also moving house at the time they emailed with the offer, so other things going on.
Company IPs?
in what way ?
Companies dont own IP's per say
RIPE own the IP's , they lease address space to ISP's who then allocate them to customers. Although there is nothing special about IP addressing to want to hold on to one.
Its not like a domain name or a private car reg.
Unless of course you want something like 1.1.1.1 or 2.2.2.2 which your never going to get.
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They likely meant IP as in intellectual property i.e. their company name for a domain.
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intellectual property.
people used to buy a website domain, knowing a company joining the online world would have to buy that name from them.
but I thought they stopped all domain name squatting unless you have an active website there.
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Yes i am fully aware of domain squatting, although i never knew the term intellectual property.
These seem like days gone by though. Although i guess people can still make some money out of it, you need to be super quick thinking and buying well ahead of time.
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You can't infringe IP when registering a domain name, so that leaves you with the generics, which as someone else pointed out, aren't that good for recognition. That's why I decided not to pursue it.
However, a good generic domain sale can still be made, e.g. the recent sale of wisdom.ai for $750,000
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It seems do-able, but the reality is it's very hard to do now.
However, a good generic domain sale can still be made, e.g. the recent sale of wisdom.ai for $750,000
Wisdom.ai Sold for $750,000, Setting a New Record for .ai Domain Names - Dn.com domain name trading platform
The global domain name market saw another major transaction: the top-level domain Wisdom.ai sold for $750,000 (approximately RMB 5.35 million), breaking the previously reported record for a .ai domain. The previous record was set by You.ai
It seems do-able, but the reality is it's very hard to do now.