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Bargain Domains My First Submission and Review

Everyone has seen the banners that adorn Domaining.com or other domaining related websites. BargainDomains.com is a great resource for the community and I think it is a really great idea.

Domain Names listed on the site are featured in a newsletter email, then featured on domaining.com and then added to the bargain domains website for 30 days.  There is no listing fees and if the name sells it is only a 12% fee. It also shows the percent off from the estimated value which gives the buyer an idea about the value of the name. Overall I think it an amazing deal for the sellers because of the free exposure they get for their names. If a name is out of your price range you can also submit an offer to try and get the seller to come down on his price.

My first name I listed on the site is featured on domaining.com today TewksburyHotels.com Valuate.com estimates its worth at

$2,400  with a $2.16 CPC

But I have the name for sale for ONLY $125

This name would be perfect for a directory listing of Hotels in and around the city of Tewksbury. With the high CPC and development potential it makes this name perfect for a quick flip of development.

In conclusion regardless of how this name goes I really like what BargainDomains is offering to the domain industry. They also have an affiliate program which I will be exploring more of. If you have some names that you are looking to sell or liquidate I would try your luck with BargainDomains.com. Has anyone had any expirences with selling on the site.

Contact me with any questions and have a  great weekend!

End User Sample Contact Steps and Timeline

I wanted to share a simple outline that I follow when contacting end users. It is by no means set in stone and will vary depending on the name and the end user you are contacting.

First Contact- Send an eMail early in the week I like to send them on Monday so they have the whole week to look at them. If they respond take it from there; if not move to step 2.

Second Contact-  Wait 1-2 weeks after 1st contact try a simple contact via phone or email depending on the value of the sale to you simplely to ask if they got your email, have any questions or are interested in buying the domain.

Third Contact - Wait 2 weeks, If they have not answered any emails the email may not be checked so you might want to opt for a phone call or traditional snail mail option if you have not done so already.

 If they do not respond after these 3 or 4 attempted contacts chances are they are not going to. Move on try the next potential end user and remember it takes a long time to sell some domains just keep working selling quality domains for fair prices.

The all new Estibot 2.0 can help you find users and might be valuable for someone who has not done it before.

More Than One Possible End User Try an eBay Auction

eBay has just made news with some fee changes to the auction structure and that got me thinking about doing a domain auction ebay. When I was first starting in domaining I sold some of my domain names on Ebayand other things on eBay but after I learned more about domain names I stopped selling Domain Names for Sale on Ebay.

I have a few small domains that I would like to get mid $xxx to low $xxxx for and I have a list of a group of potential buyers and end users for each. I am going to use eBay as the auction house for a few reasons.

1. eBay is very well known and respected. Many endusers have no clue what Sedo, or Snapnames is and they may not trust it.

2. I have a very good feedback rating on eBay and that adds to the trust factor.

3. eBay and Paypal are easy to use and it make the buying process easy for the buyer.

4. The fees on ebay are only 9% with a max at $25 max fees you can pay. I am not sure the exact fees at other auction houses but this includes ebay and paypal handlingthe escrow so I think overall it is a good rate.

I hope that the auction goes well I am in the process of writing my emails and starting the auction. I think I am going to have the auction start before I send the emails.

If this goes well I may look at doing more on eBay using fixed price listings and make an offer prices. I really like the trust factor and recognition that an eBay auction brings to the table.

What do you think?

Can You be Just a Domainer?

Most of us call ourselves domainers, but really many of us could give ourselves many titles. I think that is one of the best things about the domain industry and working online it enables one to learn and peruse a vast area of work.

Domainers today can not really just be domainers, especially when starting out I found that I needed to be a jack of all trades because I did not want to have to pay someone to do simple little tasks for myself every single time I needed it done.

Because I took just a little bit of time to teach myself easy little tasks like editing wordpress themes, or building a simple minisite, doing basic seo, and many other things I am now able to rely on myself and I am able to keep little cost down.

It is a great way to start out, as the  Chinese Proverb goes

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

This is so true for domaining, don't pay someone to install wordpress, or build a minisite for you if you do not have to. Learn how to,  ask people for help. Send me an email I am always happy to help.

If you have the money or your time is better spent doing other things by all means hire someone I am a big fan of outsourcing task to others but some little stuff I love to do on my own and keep some gas money in my pocket.

To wrap things up many domainers are also web designers, affiliate marketers, web designers, social media experts, advertising specialist, bloggers, businessmen, investors, graphic designers, seo experts, sem people, and the list goes on and on.

So if you have time and want to learn more take a look at youtube or google your question and you are bound to find information that can save you time and money.

5 Places You May Not Think to Look for End Users

Lately I have been looking at a few out of the box ways to find and contact end users. I have tried the normal emails, calls, and even good old fashion snail mail with stamps. But I was thinking about some new places to look for end users many that involve new social media and other new developments.

1. Twitter - Twitter I think can be a great place to find end user contacts and also contact end users via their twitter accounts. I have sold one domain via twitter and I think their is great possibility to use twitter to sell domains. When you have a keyword domain see if anyone has the twitter user name, or search and see if some company or business is talking about your keywords and send them a DM or email asking if they want to buy your domain.

2. Facebook - Facebook is a lot like twitter using your keywords from your domain see if anyone has the facebook url ex. facebook.com/yourdomain   Also people might have a fan page for your keywords so always check and if you find someone take a second and send them a quick message.

3. Youtube.com - Youtube is becomeing one of the largest traffice sites in the world and the largest search engines for videos online. Take a look to see if anyone has registered your domain keywords to use as their youtube profile. Or if you want more results find people that are producing videos using your keywords.

4. Craigslist.com If you are selling local geo domains craigslist.com is a great place to find a local business that may want to buy your domain.

5. Google.com Well this one is not new for most people and it is where I find a majority of my end user contacts, but Google has many cool tools that you can use besides the normal search including Google maps, Google local search, Google people directory, Google reader and Google news and finance.

Do you have anyother places you look to find contacts to sell your domains too?

Soon I should be doing a longer wrap up of some recent enduser sales I have made and the different ways I have done them I will also review the results of my letters I sent out. Hopefully I can have that out in the next week or so.

In other news Chef Patrick interviewed Bruce Marler today on Domain Success Power Lunch and it is worth a listen it should be up on Domain Success soon.

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