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.

May i submit my domains to different Domain Brokers?

1. ) How many domain name brokers would you use to sell your domain name?

Best thing is, If you have a wish to sell your domain names you have to list your domain names at several market places. as much as possible. each and every domain name brokerage firm has some special aspects, what i mean. some domain brokers may fetch good prices for .net domains, some other domain broker may fetch you a nice price for your .info domain names. The domain brokers did not have much exposure on this domain sales. More over they conceal this as it will affect their domain business. The domain sellers will have to find this, it will be known to you with time and experience.

If you find that a particular domain extension fetches a good price at a particular domain brokers website. you can use some value added services offered by that domain broker like home page listing (or) domain category listing ETC. so that more people will participate at domain auctions and make their bid to buy domain name. Otherwise it is advisable that you don't waste you money on domain name listing ETC

The only thing is, if it is started to get higher offers for your domain "higher domain offer, than your reserve price" you have to release your domain from different domain market places and consider only one domain name brokering site which fetches you good offers for your name.

2. ) How do i know that the domain broker sells my domain names for good prices?

You can find it out easily, Firstly if you make a mail to the domain broker. How fast he responds to your query ? . secondly, Is he is flexible and polite to help you, to sell your domain names rather than a rigid rules and FAQ statements ? Does his domain brokerage site receives quality traffic for domain broker related keywords scattered on the entire web. Does he is active and interested in this business and works to develop his domain brokerage site.

3. ) Do we believe reviews on domain brokers site ?

blaming others is not a good habit, however i am very unhappy with some review sites which wrote some reviews on domain brokers site. they have thrown out the world leading domain name brokers, some also blame and gave the least star rating for them. and gave premium domain broker rating to portfolio holders (may be paid i feel) like a paid review. I am very unhappy with some review sites who gave high star rating to domain brokers site.whose domain broker sites were just parked. few domain broker review sites are not even updated. The big sorrow is such sites gets best results on SERP pages.only because of the content. More over we are not in a position to blame search engines as it has to crawl millions of web domains each and every day.


4. ) How Search engines help domain brokers to build their business ?

Domain brokers site receives a considerable amount of traffic from search engines. however it shows its result pages based on keywords in its content. so we are forced to write content for our site rather than to help others to sell and purchase domain names. one big fact is much more people have captured the SERP pages for keyword related to domain name broker. who where not at all brokers, just review writers, forum makers, ad pages ETC, and hence the users were unable to reach the desired site. we are not in a position to blame search engines as they cant manually review each and every web site.

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.