How to maximize your Dan.com profits (1.Viewing)

Today I am going to teach newer members how to use the Dan.com (Undeveloped) marketplace to it's full PROFIT potential.

I switched my public domains to dan.com because of their reasonable 9% commission which was far less than the 20% I was paying at Godaddy/Afternic.

So even though 9% is quite reasonable I still think there is room for domainers to maximize their profits and take this number down to 5% whenever possible.


So here is a quick tutorial for those of you that would like to see some of my tricks and tweaks.



1. Set all your domains on BIN and Lease to own.

2. Then price your domains at the maximum price you wish to see for them.

3. Then make sure you have your profile turned on and add your Lander address and Email address to the profile.







4. By not having "Make an Offer" turned on they cannot start negotiations on Dan.com, they can only "Buy Now"

5. They will now have to contact you directly to negotiate price.

6. Offer the client a discount to purchase the domain (what you would sell for)

7. Inside your Dan control panel click "Add New Lead" - https://dan.com/users/sales_activity/leads

8. Send your client to Dan.com to complete the purchase.

9. Voilla you pay only 5% commission.


Now it does not matter how you price your domains it only matters that you do not start your negotiations on Dan. The 4% savings can add up fast and quite honestly at 5% commission I won't look at Paypal, Escrow or anything else because Dan handles the transaction from start to finish.



On Twitter and other places you can advertise your domain like this and link it right to your Dan profile.





Everyone uses a different approach but on my re-designed MapleDots.ca page I now feature Dan and Twitter quite extensively as part of my sales routine.

Very good post. I just came across this.

I recently started testing some domains with Dan.com to see how it goes. It was mostly to just move away from my main contact form. I feel like I’m getting lots of spammy emails and lots of inquiries that I don’t really want.

theinvestor said:

Very good post. I just came across this.

I recently started testing some domains with Dan.com to see how it goes. It was mostly to just move away from my main contact form. I feel like I’m getting lots of spammy emails and lots of inquiries that I don’t really want.

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Did you get my $10 offer for dnc.ca?

I sent it from snowbunny244@hotmail.com


Sorry, could not resist

Lots of tweaks in Dan and I have become quite an expert.

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I have a public profile for MapleDots at Dan that links you to all my private domains.

I also have a private profile that does not link back to MapleDots nor does it link to any other domains. It simply states private seller. These are the domains I do not want people knowing I own. They simply say Domain Seller and it keeps all my information private.

Having talked to Dan they say a feature may come that allows you to separate that without creating two accounts. I did confirm with DAN that having two account was OK as long as you run the second account on the up and up. My second account uses a completely different name for contact so I can sell some domains anonymously.

It’s definitely a very friendly and easy to use platform. So I am listing names slowly on there. One thing that confused me is it asks if you want to disclose your sales. But then if you attempt to purchase a domain it asks the buyer the same question so does it disclose a sale only if buyer and seller agree? Not sure how that works….

theinvestor said:

But then if you attempt to purchase a domain it asks the buyer the same question so does it disclose a sale only if buyer and seller agree?

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Well I guess it would be fair to ask both parties the question and only disclose if both agree. But it would be nice if that was more of a default setting that savvy regular customers could change in their account preferences rather than it being specifically asked for each transaction. I'm afraid that the average buyer, when presented with that option, would say no. So I'm guessing most of that sales data will get buried.