Selling Your Domain - To Auction Or Not To Auction?

Looking to capitalize your domain names fast? Puttingand activity seem to revolve around specific owners
your domain up for auction may be just the ticketand in house domains. As the big houses now provide
for sales with a side benefit of promotion."better" service for "larger" fees one can assume
The first ticket to ride is eBay auctions. I have seenthat business model works all the way down the line
no proof that these provide a lot of big sales butof services.
they will garner sales for low priced domains. OneHow can you level the field or at least put your foot
thing to remember, a listing on eBay will get searchin the pie as a buyer or seller of domains?
engine placement for your terms. I have used thisTake the jump and get on as many auction sites as
technique to place million dollar domains up foryou can. Pay particular attention to free auction sites.
attention and search returns. The unexpected resultWhy? Free auction sites are most likely run by other
was a huge up-tick in parking revenues that offsetdomain owners and built out to promote the domains
the eBay auction costs and returned better than anyas much as gather attention for sales. Here an
Google Adsense advertising would.environment opens where every auction is there for
Finding ways to match domains to sellers hasevery search engine, buyer, and seller all for free. It
become a big business and many big nameis free advertising with a possibility of sales and that
companies are working hard to facilitate - for ancannot be beat at this price.
ever-increasing price. Investor funded efforts likeOne such site is run by the Win Your Dot Com
Sedo and Afternic have dominated the domain salespeople. This site is completely free. Listings, purchase
market for years but are costly and recently doubledand sales go without any cost to the buyer or seller.
their fees. Individual and personal efforts have alwaysSupport for the site comes from additional
been the most lucrative for sellers and the best dealhighlighting, feature listings, or just pure support
for buyers. The way the business works no doorsdonations to help get more advertising for the site.
are closed so there is nothing better than looking atWin Your Domain is geared to the individual domain
new avenues to market your domains.name holders to allow direct sales between buyers
Recently these big name houses have started to addand sellers without the need for high priced fees.
online and live auctions to the mix. These auctionsOnce the sale is agreed the people can choose
have provided increasing sales and are bringing moreanyone to do escrow or continue to just do business
attention to the domain name market. All positiveas normal.
business as far as that goes. But what does it takePutting your name up for auction is a good idea and
to get your domain onto these auctions?you should add these suggestions to your
Some of the big multi-million dollar auctions recentlydomain-marketing regime.
provide lists of names for auction and the promotion