Sway
Regular Member
Today I added a LN com.au domain to netfleet and in the process just checked out the existing domain competition.
During this I found 318 domains in the same category 'Two Letter (LL)' but with only 92 (28%) of them actually listing a price. Adding to this the currently listed prices range from $250 - $100,000.
Don't get me wrong, I'm completely aware that prices can drastically differ depending on the value of the characters, combination or a buyers desires but the disappointing thing is that so many of these domains are heavily overly priced or with the listing of 'Make an Offer'.
It may just be me, but when I see this I instantly get the feeling the owner has large numbers in mind and don't really bother pursuing a potential
Perhaps the reasoning behind this is as simple as the owners who list with 'Make an Offer' are in two minds about the value and to be safe leave it up to any one interested? Although I would be more inclined to believe they see the other domains listed in the same category at way over priced figures and believe their own hype and dream up that only the equivalent value of a yacht or Porsche would be a fair price to part with their domain.
Of course this is not limited to only the Two letter category, but since I was already researching it, it was my primary focus.
I have thought about how to solve this and simply removing the ability to list a domain as 'Make an Offer' could work as it would weed out the dreamers and leave only those serious about selling. Although the flip side of this is perhaps we would see an even bigger increase in the asking prices as owners wouldn't want to short change themselves.
So how about an option to 'ignore' make an offer listings. I know this is already somewhat possible by filtering asking prices, but with the ignore feature in place and with perhaps monthly alerts from netfleet advising listers that their domain was not shown in xxxx searches last month due to its status could motivate people to put real asking prices in.
The advantages of people putting in real prices far out way any negatives and not only would it get potential buys more interested in domains, it would also encourage buyers to actually BUY the domains. This of course would probably increase demand which overtime would increase prices.
Any one else have opinions/experiences about this?
During this I found 318 domains in the same category 'Two Letter (LL)' but with only 92 (28%) of them actually listing a price. Adding to this the currently listed prices range from $250 - $100,000.
Don't get me wrong, I'm completely aware that prices can drastically differ depending on the value of the characters, combination or a buyers desires but the disappointing thing is that so many of these domains are heavily overly priced or with the listing of 'Make an Offer'.
It may just be me, but when I see this I instantly get the feeling the owner has large numbers in mind and don't really bother pursuing a potential
Perhaps the reasoning behind this is as simple as the owners who list with 'Make an Offer' are in two minds about the value and to be safe leave it up to any one interested? Although I would be more inclined to believe they see the other domains listed in the same category at way over priced figures and believe their own hype and dream up that only the equivalent value of a yacht or Porsche would be a fair price to part with their domain.
Of course this is not limited to only the Two letter category, but since I was already researching it, it was my primary focus.
I have thought about how to solve this and simply removing the ability to list a domain as 'Make an Offer' could work as it would weed out the dreamers and leave only those serious about selling. Although the flip side of this is perhaps we would see an even bigger increase in the asking prices as owners wouldn't want to short change themselves.
So how about an option to 'ignore' make an offer listings. I know this is already somewhat possible by filtering asking prices, but with the ignore feature in place and with perhaps monthly alerts from netfleet advising listers that their domain was not shown in xxxx searches last month due to its status could motivate people to put real asking prices in.
The advantages of people putting in real prices far out way any negatives and not only would it get potential buys more interested in domains, it would also encourage buyers to actually BUY the domains. This of course would probably increase demand which overtime would increase prices.
Any one else have opinions/experiences about this?