So How Is Your January Going? (6.Viewing)

domains · Jan 27, 2025

One inquiry on a .ca for me at the start of January, $1000 offer on core values (ca) through DomainEasy, seemed legit but buyer gone silent after I countered. Said they wanted it for a store that was going to sell products made locally, not sure where it is (if it exists).

Got a handful of SEO Spam messages through the DomainEasy offer form and my own form as well.

Slow start to the year. Stock market has a few jitters today which is a change.

silentg · Jan 27, 2025

inquiry from GoDaddy broker, negotiation is still ongoing.

DomainRecap · Jan 27, 2025

It's been pretty bad and with Dan gone and all my domains at Afternic, I hold out no hope for the future.

I get lots of offers, but negotiations literally take forever and at Afternic, all you can do is just keep waiting. It's pretty well the definition of insanity.

MapleDots · Jan 27, 2025

DomainRecap said:
It's been pretty bad and with Dan gone and all my domains at Afternic, I hold out no hope for the future.

I get lots of offers, but negotiations literally take forever and at Afternic, all you can do is just keep waiting. It's pretty well the definition of insanity.

Here is what you could do...

List on all services

Afternic
Saw
EasyDomain
SAV
DynaDot
NameSilo
Spaceship
etc.

Leave your name servers pointed to your own lander and ignore any request to purchase, eventually they come to the address in the address bar which is your lander.

So this way you can use every service to get the domain name out there but have the benefit of zero commission.

Most registrars make changing nameservers in bulk easy so all you have to do is bulk change them once per service to have the domains validated and then change them back to your landers.

domains · Jan 27, 2025

I feel like this year I'll have to look at each renewal even more carefully than I have been, with renewal fees always going up and sales more intermittent. Ofcourse one or a few big sales could change that, and make me more likely to hold onto "inventory" type domains that are good but would realistically only sell in the $1500 to $3000 range. It's hard to decide though when you see domains sell on a weekly basis at prices much higher than you'd think, you just never know. For myself, I'm getting more to the point of holding a smaller portfolio of names I would renew no question, and keep it to that.

Spex · Jan 27, 2025

Sold one .com in early January for $1500...but for some reason I had a 10 month payment plan set up on it. Oh well

Nothing since

DomainRecap · Jan 27, 2025