My Ebay feedback rating (as of today) is 100% of 425 transactions. I push all domain names free to your Godaddy account within 6 hours of receiving your mone 95% of the time, within 24 hours 100% of the time. I sell all domain names using Paypal as my method of payment. Each of the five domain names I’m featuring today have a starting bid of only 99 cents, with no reserve price setting. Thus, they will all sell to the highest bidder, regardless the final bid price.

With those simple terms in mind, check out the domain names I’m currently auctioning on eBay.   You can either go to Ebay and search for the domain name (shown below), or do an “Advanced Search” and search “By Seller.”  My Ebay seller ID is bizgenie.

What Domain Names Am I Selling On Ebay Today?

I’ve owned each of these domain names for some time, in some cases several years. The most valuable of the four is IY8.com — a 3-letter dot com domain name that has been appaised at over $12,000. This domain name has been indexed in Google for some time.

I’m also auctioning a couple of 4-Letter LLLL domain names. One is the 4-letter dot com domain name, MJMR.com. This domain name could be used as a tribute site to Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan, a business name, etc. It has outstanding branding possibilities.

My second 4-letter LLLL domain name is AUCN.org. What a great domain name for anyone in the internet auctions business. The four letters actually are pronounced as “auction.” If you’re an Ebay Powerseller, this is the domain name for you.

Another “auctions” related domain name I’m selling on Ebay is AuctionsPro.com. This too, is another super domain name for any eBay Powerseller to run his business under.

The final domain name I would like to highlight today is WorkatHomeCircle.com — an outstanding domain name for any work at home entrepreneur or anyone wanting to create a blog for the work from home genre.

If you’re interested in bidding on any of these domain names, go to Ebay now and search either for the domain name or do an advanced search “by seller” based on my Ebay ID of bizgenie.

To demonstrate what I’m talking about, let’s consider as examples a few domains of my own, as well as some recent domain name sales on Sedo.com. Among some of the great domain names I own, ones I particularly like that I feel are valuable include: CashJackpot.com, InternetHighSchool.com, eSalesman.com and URL1.com. I own many that are better and more valuable, but these are three that quickly come to mind to prove my point. Of the four, I’ve only attempted to sell one of them in the past — CashJackpot.com. I placed it on Sedo a couple of years ago and it drew several offers over the 3-month period I parked it at Sedo. But all the offers ranged from $500 to $1,500 — far less than the true market value of this domain, which could be used to promote a casino, gambling, a lotto or lottery, etc. None of the offers I received were from people willing to negotiate higher.

I am the original domain owner of all 4 of these domains and have renewed them every year since buying them several years ago. Given the success of online education and high schools offering courses online, one would think that InternetHighSchool would be of value to any number of educational companies or institutions wanting to offer GED curriculums or online high school courses. So how many offers have I received for this memorable domain name and search phrase. Precisely — NONE!

eSalesman.com is a great domain name that could be used as a portal for people interested in Internet marketing and sales, a community site that focuses on people who sell online, etc. It could even become a new dictionary word in the future to label anyone who does business online. So how many offers have I received for this domain over the course of years I’ve owned it? Precisely — NONE!

URL1.com can be viewed in two lights. One could view is as not worth more than $200 or $300 because its (1) 4 letters, and (2) is not all letters, but instead is a mixture of numbers and letters. However, one could also place a very high value on having it because of its brandablity and marketability. URL1 could literally be marketed and advertised as the “Number 1 address on the Internet.” It will always have sites linking into the domain name because hundreds of sites that offer information to webmasters and web users, often use in as an online example, URL1 and URL2 when comparing one site verus another, or explaning how to install or point software on one site versus another.

So how many offers have I received for URL1.com since I first registered it 10 years ago? Precisely — NONE!

Now what do all 4 of these domains have in common? The answer is this — with the short-lived exception of trying to sell CashJackpot.com on Sedo for a very brief period, all 4 of these domains have not been promoted as being “for sale.” That is, I have not tried to market them. But if I did choose to market them, I would need to spend a little time developing a plan and strategy on how, where and how long I would promote them to increase the chance of selling them for something approaching their true value.

The Key to earning top dollor for your domain names is in finding and getting matched with the right buyer. For what a domain name is worth to one person is very different to what it is worth for someone else. Getting exposed to the right group of prospects and ultimately finding the perfect match for a buyer is not as easy as it might sound. But when you do luck up and get exposed to the right buyer at the right time, the outcome is always a high sales price that will surprise most people.

To offer proof of this acclamation, consider 2 very recent sales on Sedo.com for HandyDude.com and BuilderZone.com. I can assure you from my personal experience in selling domain names on Ebay, that neither one of these domains would sell for over $50 on Ebay. In fact, if I had to guess, I would say that depending on time of day, length of auction and the prices you normally see domains sold for on Ebay, these 2 domains would have sold for no more than $50 on Ebay, and more likely would sell somewhere between $8 and $30. But because of the greater exposure they received on Sedo after they got their initial bids, and because the right buyer happened to come along while the domains were still for sale, the actual selling prices for thee two domain names was: $1,800 for HandyDude.com and $5,800 for BuilderZone.com. The sales prices for both shocked me, but without a doubt they are classic examples of being at the right place at the right time.

The moral of this story is this: If you own a valuable domain name, you really need to promote it and get all the exposure you can for it before you start pushing to sell it and before you can hope to get a price something close to the true value of the domain.

In more news, my research project on determining the value of 4-letter domain names on Ebay versus Sedo and TDNAM.com is nearing an end. I’m choosing to keep great 4-letter domain names like PGAU.com and selling off 4-letter domains that contain an X, Y, Z, K, Q or V in them. Ten recent sales of these type of 4-letter dot com’s on TDNAM.com averaged only $60 each. Consistently, sales of similar 4-letter domain names on Ebay fetch $52 to $62 each, thus the market for these type of 4-letter domains in these two forum (i.e., Ebay and TDNAM), where domains get very little traffic exposure during a limited period of time, run in the $50 to $60 range. All of these domain names have a true value much greater than this, for there is only a limited number of 4-letter domain names.

An observation of sales on Sedo.com for similar domains reveals that the sellers are setting most of the domains that fall under this category (i.e., 4-letter dot coms with X, Y, Z, K, Q or V) create a reserve price of $60 (basically what the names go for on Ebay or TDNAM.com) and then once they get the $60 bid they decline the bid and push the domain name into a 7-day auction, whereby they gain much more exposure and end up going for a much higher selling price. It’s all about exposure and marketing baby, and this is one excellent way of doing it. For reference, and as a general footnote, you cannot put a domain name into a 7-day auction on Sedo until it receives a bid. An example of what I’m talking about can be seen in RZOR.com, which with 2 days remaining on its 7-day Sedo auction has 2 bids and is at $300. Examples of the $60 starting point can be found with NVMU.com and HXOE.com, which have 2 days remaining and are still at their single bid of $60 each. Both will likely go for more.

The problem with selling domains is that if all you do is park them you’re just waiting for the right guy or company to come along and buy them. If you post them for sale on sites like Sedo you’re competing with so many domain names that you’re domains are rarely seen. Once every now and then I realize its time to sell some domains to raise money to buy more domains. As time goes on I develop a number of the ones I really like in hopes of increasing their value even further. When I choose to sell there is no quicker sell than Ebay. But there’s also no quicker way to practically give your domains away than Ebay also.

With the maximum auction length on Ebay being 10 days its very difficult to get enough traffic from the right players to sell your domain at a price your truly proud of and glad to get. Most of the time your domain will sell at a steep discount to its true value. Correction … let me restate that. Almost all of the time you will never come close to reaching a domain name’s true value. There are a few exceptions, but they are indeed few.

An example of what I’m talking about occurred today. Two domains I felt would do very well went for peanuts. MSVistaTips.com and DotComBeach.com when for $5 and change plus $8.01 respectively. The two auction winners are indeed lucky souls. I sold the first domain because I didn’t want to own a domain that had a trademark attached to it. The second one I sold because it really didn’t fit the genre of anything I want to develop.

The lesson for you is this. Don’t ever think you can sell on Ebay and reap the true value of a domain. The few that do are lucky. You simply don’t get enough traffic from the right buyer during such a confined period of time. That said, you will still see me selling domains on Ebay from time to time because when I want to raise money quickly to purchase additional domains I don’t mind weeding off domains I don’t plan to develop or don’t feel are at the top of my value list.

On a much smaller note I sold several 4-letter domain names today. One I was worried about on value that sold quickly with my EBay Buy it Now, or BIN, auction was IAQL.com. It went for $149. As noted yesterday, my Zoles.com sold for $1,250 on Sedo. A private sale of my TexasBreastImplants.com several months ago went for $2,250. All 3 of these domain names are fine examples of domains I picked up off a dropped, or expired domains, list and registered for $7.05 each. I also sold CUJT.com yesterday for $99 on a BIN auction. Bids for my InstantBidder.com have climbed to $100. A private offer for MillionaireAlliance.com, another domain name I own, was received yesterday for $500. I declined the sale and will hold out for a higher price.

My zoles.com has 15 hours remaining on the auction and its highest bid still stands at $1,200. I’ve had over 543 reviews of the domain name page over the past week. Although traffic has been amazing to this great domaiin name, only one bidder (who has bid twice) has bid on this great brandable 5-letter domain name thus far.

Also up for auction on eBay (click our Ebay store link) is FromPC.com — a super domain name for PC builders, computer sales, computer rentals, computer hardware sales and auctions, etc. It’s very difficult to find any PC or computer domain name with only 6 letters, and this one’s a dot com. This is a 7-day auction and started at only 99 cents with free transfer.

This was a research project I conducted to compare TDNAM.com with Ebay.com using similar types of domains. Two of my 4-letter domains went for over $107 each on Ebay. A 4-letter dot net went for $43 on Ebay. I have several 4-letter dot com’s being auctioned now on Ebay and they appear to be promising much higher values than TDNAM.com