| Looking to capitalize your domain names fast? Putting | | | | and activity seem to revolve around specific owners |
| your domain up for auction may be just the ticket | | | | and 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 seen | | | | that business model works all the way down the line |
| no proof that these provide a lot of big sales but | | | | of services. |
| they will garner sales for low priced domains. One | | | | How can you level the field or at least put your foot |
| thing to remember, a listing on eBay will get search | | | | in the pie as a buyer or seller of domains? |
| engine placement for your terms. I have used this | | | | Take the jump and get on as many auction sites as |
| technique to place million dollar domains up for | | | | you can. Pay particular attention to free auction sites. |
| attention and search returns. The unexpected result | | | | Why? Free auction sites are most likely run by other |
| was a huge up-tick in parking revenues that offset | | | | domain owners and built out to promote the domains |
| the eBay auction costs and returned better than any | | | | as 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 has | | | | every search engine, buyer, and seller all for free. It |
| become a big business and many big name | | | | is free advertising with a possibility of sales and that |
| companies are working hard to facilitate - for an | | | | cannot be beat at this price. |
| ever-increasing price. Investor funded efforts like | | | | One such site is run by the Win Your Dot Com |
| Sedo and Afternic have dominated the domain sales | | | | people. This site is completely free. Listings, purchase |
| market for years but are costly and recently doubled | | | | and sales go without any cost to the buyer or seller. |
| their fees. Individual and personal efforts have always | | | | Support for the site comes from additional |
| been the most lucrative for sellers and the best deal | | | | highlighting, feature listings, or just pure support |
| for buyers. The way the business works no doors | | | | donations to help get more advertising for the site. |
| are closed so there is nothing better than looking at | | | | Win 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 add | | | | and sellers without the need for high priced fees. |
| online and live auctions to the mix. These auctions | | | | Once the sale is agreed the people can choose |
| have provided increasing sales and are bringing more | | | | anyone to do escrow or continue to just do business |
| attention to the domain name market. All positive | | | | as normal. |
| business as far as that goes. But what does it take | | | | Putting 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 recently | | | | domain-marketing regime. |
| provide lists of names for auction and the promotion | | | | |