welcome to the journey today we're going
to talk about how to list domain names
for sale
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hey I'm Emma and today I'm joined with
our special guest Joe Joe take it away
tell the viewers at home what you're all
about hi I've been helping people sell
domains with good a for over ten years
and I'm excited to help anyone who
watches learn how to sell their names so
some of you might be able to this at
home you have a domain name that you no
longer need but have you ever been
curious about how much it could be worth
if you sell it I mean think about it
like you decide you no longer want to
have your business I remember my family
went through this one at a cafe in
Indiana you don't just forget about all
the things inside the business you could
make a lot of profit off of everything
that made that business the equipment
and sell it similar to domains right
yeah that's right and that's a great
point to bring up a lot of times people
think about the business to sell that
when they're done but they don't think
about the domain the digital properties
that they own and that has value or you
might have bought a name and thought of
a great idea that you wanted to get
started and get off the ground like many
of us do and procrastinate and never do
anything with oh not me I don't but that
name might just be sitting in your
account
yeah it's likely you're not the only
person to have thought of a great idea
that that name would be helpful for it
so why not put it up for sale people
don't often think about the domains that
they have in their account that might be
expiring that have value and they can
list them and make money I like that so
how do you go about selling it then it's
really easy so if you have a name
that you have with good Annie you can do
it right from in your domain control
center there's an option to monetize it
and you can list it for sale one click
of a button it'll give you an estimated
price that you should sell it at you can
click another button and put it up for
sale so you can actually know roughly
how much you're gonna make before you
sell it and then you can make a good
decision
I like that I've done that with my car
before and realized oh yeah this makes a
lot of sense to sell now what if you're
not a Go Daddy customer though are there
other place for okay yeah if you have a
name that's registered somewhere else
it's just as easy to sell her to go to a
you can go to the auctions or there's
other companies like c.com that you can
go list your name or dan comm so there's
a lot of options out there for you to
list your name and most of them are very
easy all right that sounds awesome job
but before I even sell
I want to know I need some transparency
here like how much is this domain worth
can I get those answers sure there's a
couple of great automated tools that you
can use GoDaddy has evaluation tool
there's another company called Esteban
it's Esteban calm Esteban
sounds like a fancy name it is it's a
fancy algorithm it tells you an estimate
of what your name is worth and you can
also look in a site called named bio and
that has a bunch of historical sales of
actual names so you can locate
comparable sales and see if somebody had
a name that was similar to yours what
they sold it for and then you can also
you know think about it yourself if it
was your business you have an idea of
what kind of revenue that website was
generating for you so you can price it
correctly that way oh that's a good
point
light bulb just realized what this
reminds me of it's kind of like real
estate right so right if you go to
Zillow and you can see roughly how much
the house your house is worth before
putting it on the market yeah that's
exactly it if people think about their
website as an address it really
translates over to real estate very well
and when you look at comparable sales
you can look at sites like name bio and
see not only similar names that's old
but you can also see the dates so you
can see similar time frames just like on
Zillow where you can see oh this house
sold in my neighborhood last week and
this one sold three years ago so maybe I
should go with the newer you know more
up-to-date stat got it alright so
thinking back to my family's business
the cafe and this cafe in Indiana I know
the value of the business right that's
clear and I know therefore the value of
this domain right well where do I go
next with that to know really where to
sell it so now that you know that your
name is valuable you have an idea of how
many customers come into your business
and how much your business makes from
that and what it would be potentially
valuable for other people that have
cafes to use that name for you can put a
price on it and when you have a price
you want to go and list it for sale
somewhere right you want to get it out
yeah the best way that I know to get it
out there is to put it on a site like
after Nick because what they do is they
distribute that kind of going back to
real estate with Zillow and the MLS when
you list your house for sale it gets
distributed to all these other real
estate
around the country after Nick
distributes your name to all these other
registrar's all around the world so your
name will show up on places like Network
solutions or hi China and China or
Gandhi in India so your you can list it
in one place and then it gets
distributed all over the world with the
price that you set on it and that gives
you the biggest audience for buyers okay
well so someone anywhere in the world
could buy the domain EMAS cafe.com
my family's restaurant but does that
mean they're then committed to opening
the business Emma Skye no no not
necessarily domains have value in and of
themselves so just like real estate
where somebody might invest in you know
an empty plot somewhere that's close to
the beach or a good foot traffic
they might buy your name knowing that it
has value for other people who want to
open a cafe so just like there's real
estate investors there's domain
investors and they see names with value
and they'll hold those names and sell
them to other people that makes a lot of
sense I always wish I had that knowledge
especially living in Southern California
a few my friends they are in real estate
they got a head of like what
neighborhood's gonna be trendy before
it's trendy buy that plot it's worth
more later it's the same with domain
yeah it's the same thing people look all
day long some people make their living
buying and selling domain names by
finding value that other people don't
see that's a wrap you just learned how
to list your domain name for sale Joe
thanks for being thanks for having me
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