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I hope this will hep you:
The other day I discussed with a fellow domainer and both we had to admit we were ONLY getting domain purchase offers for the most expensive of our domains.
Those names one generally prefer to keep and/or have no urgency to sell.
Myself the domain I sold for the lowest price was a dot org sold for 100K. This give you an idea of the scale.
For privacy reasons I cannot disclose the domains sold but I will say that basically we can range these domains in 2 pools:
a - Domains with top ranking in Google or Yahoo.
These domains are rarely nice names.
They may have several hyphens, numbers, be very long, be really ugly, ...
They are small sites (generally only with SEO content) that are top ranked for a keyword where there is a lot of advertising competition.
Exactly the kind of domains you can submit for certification at PremiumDomain.com and will NEVER be declared as Premium.
(as you see it's not because you don't own a premium you cannot do BIG sales).
b - Generic domains with a high "domain score".
Only dot com and dot org were sold (80% / 20%).
The buyers of (a) were ALL end users at the difference of (b) were a significant percentage were domain investors.
This can means that end users are looking for REAL and SIGNIFICANT traffic, they trust what they see: good rankings!
At the inverse domain investors look likes more interested by direct navigation with nice popular generic domains.
I do not own any typo so I cannot talk about buyers interest for typos.
Buying strategy:
(a) We continue to work the SEO of our domains to acheive top ranks.
I do not buy directly top ranked sites for 2 reasons:
- SEO is volatile.
- Owners are rarely buyers.
(b) Maybe you noticed my attempt to purchase domains scored over 700 for a 10 years search type in revenue.
The idea was to can continue feeding (b) buyers and not as many may have think as a long time investment.
The demand is STRONG and the market offer LOW.
You can check that even Monte at TRAFFIC had a very low % of those domains for sale.
And you, what is your sale trend and buying strategy?
...
The other day I discussed with a fellow domainer and both we had to admit we were ONLY getting domain purchase offers for the most expensive of our domains.
Those names one generally prefer to keep and/or have no urgency to sell.
Myself the domain I sold for the lowest price was a dot org sold for 100K. This give you an idea of the scale.
For privacy reasons I cannot disclose the domains sold but I will say that basically we can range these domains in 2 pools:
a - Domains with top ranking in Google or Yahoo.
These domains are rarely nice names.
They may have several hyphens, numbers, be very long, be really ugly, ...
They are small sites (generally only with SEO content) that are top ranked for a keyword where there is a lot of advertising competition.
Exactly the kind of domains you can submit for certification at PremiumDomain.com and will NEVER be declared as Premium.
(as you see it's not because you don't own a premium you cannot do BIG sales).
b - Generic domains with a high "domain score".
Only dot com and dot org were sold (80% / 20%).
The buyers of (a) were ALL end users at the difference of (b) were a significant percentage were domain investors.
This can means that end users are looking for REAL and SIGNIFICANT traffic, they trust what they see: good rankings!
At the inverse domain investors look likes more interested by direct navigation with nice popular generic domains.
I do not own any typo so I cannot talk about buyers interest for typos.
Buying strategy:
(a) We continue to work the SEO of our domains to acheive top ranks.
I do not buy directly top ranked sites for 2 reasons:
- SEO is volatile.
- Owners are rarely buyers.
(b) Maybe you noticed my attempt to purchase domains scored over 700 for a 10 years search type in revenue.
The idea was to can continue feeding (b) buyers and not as many may have think as a long time investment.
The demand is STRONG and the market offer LOW.
You can check that even Monte at TRAFFIC had a very low % of those domains for sale.
And you, what is your sale trend and buying strategy?
...