How to Sell Your Domain Name: Ultimate Guide

Have you ever been paying a domain renewal fee and thought, “I’m not using it, I should sell that domain name.” I know I have. You may not be sitting on but you could very well own one that has some value. So let’s talk about how to sell domain names.

As I type this, there are over 1,500 TLDs. You can register a domain on about 1,000 of them. So clearly there is no shortage of available domain space. Yet the secondary domain market is thriving.

Why? Because people still want a domain name on a small handful of specific TLDs, .com being the most desirable.

The TLD is the part of the domain accurate mobile phone number list that comes after the last dot. TLD stands for Top-Level Domain. So com, net, and org are TLDs. As are club, store, and chat. Technically they are “generic” top-level domains, but we’re just going to refer to them as TLDs.

How to Sell Your Domain Name

 

 

Hi, my name is Michael, and I an a domainaholic.

I’m in recovery now, but at one time I owned more than 500 domain names. I realize that’s small potatoes compared to the big domain name holders, but during the ideal mix of style that time I learned a thing or two about buying and selling domains.

The main thing I learned is that it pays to be patient. It can take a long time  to sell a domain name.

But, there are steps you can take to accelerate the process. The more aggressively you “market” your domain, the quicker you’ll sell it. And if you do it right, you’ll reap the maximum amount the domain can bring.

Whether you go about selling your agb directory domain name in an aggressive or more passive way, the basic steps are the same, so let’s get to them.

Determine the Value Before You Sell the Domain

 

One of the most common pitfalls that we run into when trying to sell a domain name is believing it is more valuable than it actually is. Reading about those million-dollar sales can lead us to believe we’re sitting on a goldmine when our domain may only be worth the cost of a nice dinner.

But hey, at least getting the cost of a nice dinner is something. If we don’t temper our expectations, it’s likely we’ll wind up with nothing. Listing a domain for more than it’s worth rarely (okay, never) leads to a sale.

There are sites and services out there that will provide you with an estimate of a domain’s value. Those are only estimates though, based on algorithms. And like all algorithms, they are generic, not specific.

I prefer to look at comparable sales. It isn’t like selling on eBay where you can see what the exact same product sold for. Domain names are unique, so you have to look for roughly comparable names.

Sites like  provide information on what domains are actually selling for, so they are a good place to start.

There are also rules of thumb you can apply. Like if ggexample.net sold for $100, you can assume that you could reasonably ask for 5 to 10 times more for ggexample.com.

Those multiples work the other way too. If you own a .net or .org version of a .com that sold for $100, you can expect to get 5 to 10 times less than the .com sales price for your domain.