Domain Brokers on move ?

1.) what is meant by secret domain sales ? (or) what is called secret website sales ?

Some domain sellers wish to sell their domain property in a secret method. what i mean is they don't wish to disclose their domain sales to the public. those domain sellers just want the domain brokers to sell their domain property directly to their known seller. such sales are privately held by the domain broker, is called secret domain sales or secret web sales. Great premium domains and websites with few years of development and have a revenue potential are sold in a secret way. this is mainly done so that they don't want to lose the goodwill of their online internet property.

2.) What happened to Bido ? Auction hanged with fixedloans.com ?

Bido a domain name auction site, started by few portfolio owners Mr.sahar sarid, Mr.Rick Schwartz to help domainers to sell their domains. They considered a single domain for auction from a list of domains which they feel premium. called as domain for consideration. They started their auction at $1 most of the domains reached a reasonable price. they were smoothly done their auction sale up to 58 domains. On the 59 th day they started to auction a nice two word finance related domain, fixedloans.com. they mailed to all subscribers that due to overload on hosting it got overhauled, and they mailed to every one that the same domain name auction will be once again conducted with in two days. But i just noticed that there is no domain auctions till two business weeks.

3.) Who is an independent domain broker ?

Generally domain brokers are not independent in nature. They depend in some way either to get traffic for their domain broker site, or to pay safely for the domain names sold through their domain broker site. But we can see some big giants are making them self independent with their own escrow ETC. Where as new born domain brokers are in no way. they have to depend as they have to build trust on their business with time.

More about Domain Brokerage ?

A person or entity which works on behalf of the domain owner to sell a domain name is a domain broker. The firm which places the domain at its market place (or) auction place of website where repeated domain buyers and domain sellers make a regular and repeated visit to find a memorable, short, sexy and generic domain for their online presence is a domain brokerage website.

Domain Brokers collect a small portion of the sold digital media ( normally 10% ) as their brokerage fee. Such brokerage firm spends time and money to bring domain buyer and seller under one roof. domain brokers also offer escrow services for safer transaction of funds.

Domain brokers are known to be the best persons for estimating domain values. so domain appraisal also serves as an additional revenue. Manual domain appraisal is found to be the best compared to Software appraisals where all the metrics are calculated manually to achieve final domain value. Domain appraisal pricing varies with firm, as per the number of metrics considered normally from 10$ to 800$. Certain domain brokers offer portfolio appraisals also.