I have some domains on AFternic with asking prices $10 k and over but I am wondering if you can’t sell over a certain price if all you do is put domains on a platform. Do you have to have an audience and more credibility to sell at higher prices. Or does it just down to having a good domain?
I've been doing this a long time.
I've had a domain sell for 1.5 million via a phone call and a lot of negotiation. I have had an unusual number sell for $12000 on buy it now options with no contact with the buyer at all.
I think at the time a lot of credit cards had $15,000 limits.
My average, or I guess modal, sales are in the $1200 to $5000 range with outliers down to $600 and up to $35000
Most of my big sales were direct, via phone contact. People tend to want to talk when dropping $25k on anything.
I price high on listing sites. I admit it. Sometimes very high if I want to haggle on it -- as I don't really want to sell it but will for the right price.
My 3000 name portfolio was just automatically valued using godaddys tool, at over $6,000,000 not including our cherry Girlfriends.com which it balked on, but boredhumans valued it at about $234k
Many names were valued at around $500 some a lot higher.
I don't agree with the appraisal, but I was still shocked at what it came out with.
Just some real world long time feedback on what sells.
You need good names. A good economy. And the right person LOOKING FOR IT.
Other metrics are how it sounds, is it easy for a customer to remember, can it sell product or services or make something look good. We were building links sites using our own tools and templates, sometimes 3 a day to show off the names. Oddly, it was unused sites that sold best. The customer always had a different idea for the site than we has envisioned our target price was $12k-$15k which at the time was a good target
Today there is resistance at $600 for names we legitimately (fairly) valued at $2500
It all depends.
As for targeting, we envisioned girlfriends as a dating, lesbian, or as a photo/porn site. One failed partnership envisioned it as a shopping site. I'm sure it's all on the waybackmachine
You can't control who is looking for your domain name, (ir what yhey are willing to pay) all you can do is try to get it out to those who might be looking.... and that requires effort, lots of effort.