Context: I’m not looking to buy and sell domain names professionally, but rather, to sell three domain names that I own and no longer need as profitably during the next six months as possible. So the advice I need is quite delimited.
The domain names in question (the premium one first):
NYCJazz.com
NewYorkJazzEvents.com
GetStartedAgain.com
The Confusion (i.e., questions):
What is the best way to sell these particular domain names, given my circumstances? Auction, broker, or set-price?
What is the best site to sell these particular domain names? GoDaddy (auctions), Sedo (set price), or others? Or is there a particular broker who could get better results?
My assumptions (true or not?):
There is not a useful way to determine the value of these particular URLs. For example, a major organization with a huge budget like “Jazz At Lincoln Center,” were they hypothetically interested, would obviously offer an astronomically high price for NYCJazz.com. An individual musician looking for an easy-to-remember URL would obviously offer far less, as would a non-commercial site (a site with local jazz concert listings, for example). I assume that even a professional appraiser would even have a difficult time objectively guessing the value of a URL like this.
So my initial assumption is that the best way to sell this would be a 3-month auction on GoDaddy, and let the market determine the price over time, as opposed to paying someone to guess or trying to guess myself.
Thoughts? Insights? Advice?
Thanks!
The domain names in question (the premium one first):
NYCJazz.com
NewYorkJazzEvents.com
GetStartedAgain.com
The Confusion (i.e., questions):
What is the best way to sell these particular domain names, given my circumstances? Auction, broker, or set-price?
What is the best site to sell these particular domain names? GoDaddy (auctions), Sedo (set price), or others? Or is there a particular broker who could get better results?
My assumptions (true or not?):
There is not a useful way to determine the value of these particular URLs. For example, a major organization with a huge budget like “Jazz At Lincoln Center,” were they hypothetically interested, would obviously offer an astronomically high price for NYCJazz.com. An individual musician looking for an easy-to-remember URL would obviously offer far less, as would a non-commercial site (a site with local jazz concert listings, for example). I assume that even a professional appraiser would even have a difficult time objectively guessing the value of a URL like this.
So my initial assumption is that the best way to sell this would be a 3-month auction on GoDaddy, and let the market determine the price over time, as opposed to paying someone to guess or trying to guess myself.
Thoughts? Insights? Advice?
Thanks!