How to Sell Domains With Sedo

Sedo is a domain marketplace to buy, sell, park and transfer domain names from one person to another in a secure environment. If you are looking to sell a lot of domains, try out Sedo or a similar domain service with these steps.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet access
• A browser
• Patience

1. Go to Sedo.com and sign up for an account as a domain seller. Signing up is free, and is not hard to do. You will need to confirm a legit email address and certify your payment method if someone buys a domain name from you.

2. Post your domains up for auction or in a offer, counter-offer system. You can set a minimum price threshold for all your domains, and you are free to counteroffer and negotiate with the potential buyers. This is done in a secure manner with Sedo, and works well for both parties from my experience.

3. Promote and sell your domains! Hopefully you get a lot of buyers, and if you do then Sedo (or whomever you choose) will take care of the rest. When a buyer is interested, you will be notified through email and be given more instructions from your account panel.

4. Unlock your domain name and send the authorization code to the Sedo transfer agent's email address. The authorization code can be found if you contact the registrar that currently holds the domain, or through the member's area in that registrar.

5. Wait for the WHOIS database to update after the buyer makes a transfer request with your unlocked domain name. Once the domain is officially under the buyer's name, Sedo will release the money from the escrow account and pay you for the sold domain with the method you chose when signing up. I recommend choosing Paypal as it is an easy and quick system to receive payments for domains.

Tips & Warnings

• Sedo, as well as other domain marketplaces, offer parking services for your domains. Always park your domains after you listed them for sale. You never know how long it will take to sell a domain, so you might as well make some money from Google Adsense by parking them!
• Sedo and other domain marketplaces charge fees for completing domain name transfers and transactions, so keep this in mind when you are negotiating a price with a domain name buyer. For instance, if you wanted $100 for a domain but Sedo charges a 10% commission fee, make sure to charge $110 and not $100.

Resources

• Sedo.com Domain Marketplace

[essie2006]

on 10/17/2009 great article