Marketing Domains, Out of The Box Advice Needed?

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Hi Guys

I was writing an article today about searching for assets within your business and liquidating them for further growth to enhance your core business strategy.

This had me look at my own business and I realised I am sat on around 100 domains that I am not using for one reason or another.

So I am going to sell these domain names, so my question is where?

I know all of the obvious like Sedo, Afternic etc but I want to get out of the box here and get really pro active.

The domains are in different niche's but two that I know I will never use are in the remote (Radio) controlled toy niche (TruckRC.com and TanksRC.com) and are great for someone who is looking to build a drop shipping site or already competes in that niche but would like better rankings.

My initial thoughts are emailing the top 50 or so sites on Google for that keyword and selling to them, anyone got any better ideas?

Kind regards
John
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  • Profile picture of the author MLMTraining
    I would say that the top site owners are less likely to want to buy your domains or pay much for them. I would try to find mid-sized people in your niche or new people and try to sell them to them.

    I get offered domains all the time and since I already have lots of well visited sites, I don't see value in over paying for domains just for the name...unless you have lots of links and traffic coming to it already...in which case you wouldn't be selling it.

    Go after the less educated...I know it sounds rude, but they'd probably pay you more for your domains.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by John Pawlett View Post

      My initial thoughts are emailing the top 50 or so sites on Google for that keyword and selling to them, anyone got any better ideas?

      Kind regards
      John
      Actually, that method works very well for me. I sold a really weirdo domain for $900 by that method. Have sold quite a few by that method.

      Originally Posted by MLMTraining View Post

      I get offered domains all the time and since I already have lots of well visited sites, I don't see value in over paying for domains just for the name...unless you have lots of links and traffic coming to it already...in which case you wouldn't be selling it.
      But a lot of other people do pay for domains. Sold 4 last night that were just sitting on Afternic at $250 each. Long tail keyword domains with ZERO traffic or backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Pawlett
    Thanks Joel, just where do I find the less educated new people? Although I will also try the top site owners, there's nothing like testing.

    John
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