I was just wondering how many domain sales the members of these forums have made (approximately)?

And what were some of the lessons you learned as you got more domain sales under your belt?

Probably 20+ over the last 5 years non AU tlds.

Sold 0 .com.au haha

1. Lessons, Don't wait on people who make you offers, I always get emails from people saying they will buy things but they never front with the money.

2. Always use Escrow for the transactions.

3. Provide as much monthly stats as possible, I find if you have 3 years domain stats its far better then say 6 months, long term revenue brings in $$$.

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I've sold 5 au domains, 2 through Netfleet, 1 through Flippa (with an established website) and 2 through unsolicited offers.

I've lost count of the TLDs, maybe close to 100 when I was buying and selling on ebay years ago. Since then I've sold a couple through Sedo, but I'm trying to be more of a developer than a seller.

Lessons... Don't register or hold rubbish, as you can burn through a lot of cash for for no good reason!

Agreed. But if like me you did register 200 crap domains when starting out, then remember that 200 crap websites all making $5 a month on adsense is better than 200 crap domains sitting at a registrar!

Absolutely! I really need to make more time for developing...

nearly 2000 names in 6 years
including 1500 .info's

30+ .com.au's


And I have only just started to get serious about selling!

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I have only sold one .au domain, projectors.net.au last year for $650, which i regged 2 years prior. Don't really know why I sold it, didn't need the money...probably should have just held onto it, but doesn't matter, have plenty of other domains to keep me occupied

I've sold

1 .de
2 .asia
1 .my
about 130 .au

Biggest lesson I have learnt is to let people know the domain might be for sale.

Most people here on DNtrade is they came across a domain we wanted and it was parked, would hop onto WHOIS and fire off an email expressing interest.

However the average punter wouldn't even recognise that the domain was 'parked' and therefore more likely to be for sale. They also wouldn't have any idea about WHOIS so they'd just move onto their next choice.

Stick a 'This domain may be for sale' on your domains and you GREATLY increase your chance of selling.

DISCLAIMER... below comments are unashamedly promoting Netfleet....

1) if you list your domain on Netfleet it

a) shows people it's for sale
b) tells them exactly how to make an offer

2) we have ready made banners that you can just bang on your site which will automatically tell people the domain is for sale and direct any clicks to your listing



3) if you park with Namedrive (using our affiliate code http://www.namedrive.com/?ref=4131 (more promotion!)) and pop an email to Simon, he can automatically put a 'For Sale' link on every domain for you pointing back to Netfleet

4) Names listed on Netfleet show up on the registration pages of Netregistry, Hostess, Planet Domain, TPP and MD Webhosting if they closely match the domain the user is trying to register. This directly targets end-users right at the point where they are looking to acquire a domain. Eg below is what you see if you try to register poker.com.au...



....END self promotion

Sorry guys I know that was very Netfleet focused but with the subject of the thread, I just couldn't help it. Plus it's worked for me.

Note that I didn't suggest paid listing features or paid auctions - everything I suggested above doesn't cost a cent.

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I've sold only 1 .com.au domain to date - made $4978 profit though in less than 24 hours so I'm happy so far

I'm hoping to build up my portfolio over the next 12-24 months before tackling the sales side.

Sold two .com's for hefty $$$$ but no .com.au sales.