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Domain
Aftermarket Options Are Expanding As Industry Players
Launch New Sales Platforms At
a time when the recession is causing many industries to
contract
new
players are crowding into the domain aftermarket space.
Francois Carrillo, who operates the popular news
headline aggregator, Domaining.com,
just launched the first iteration of a new marketplace
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is no charge to list domains but to be accepted names will
have to appraise at Valuate.com for at least $500
and be listed for sale at no less than $100. Also,
submissions are limited to no more than five per person in
a 30-day period. BargainDomains currently does not accept
adult, gambling or trademark related domains, IDNs, and
domains with hyphens or numbers. In
another smart cross-promotional move, Carrillo said newly
listed domains will start be being featured in a
Domaining.com newsletter sent exclusively to premium
members who pay a $50 annual fee. The next day they
will be listed in the free Domaning.com newsletter sent to
regular subscribers, then on the third day they will be
listed on Domaining.com's home page. Unsold domains then
make their final move to the BargainDomains.com website
one week after they are listed.
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Another
new domain marketplace, NoktaDomains.com,
was just launched a few days ago by Nokta
Internet Technologies, a company that has sold
more than 1,100 domain names over the past
eight years, including TripleCreditReport.com
for $260,000 and FreeCreditReport.co.uk
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Nokta
says it has a searchable catalog of over 200,000
high quality, commercially focused, generic keyword and
premium domain names for sale. To find a particular domain
name in the inventory, you can use the “Advanced
Search” option with any keyword, phrase or domain
name. More than 40,000 domains are listed as Fixed
Price Bargain Domains available with the “Buy Now”
option. The rest of the inventory is based on negotiation,
an “Offer-Counter Offer” system which enables
you to contact the seller if needed. NoktaDomains said
they also have a team of Domain Consultants available
around the clock.
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Nokta
previously had their names listed for sale at a
number of different marketplaces. A company
representative explained why they decided to build
their own sales platform. "By having our own
marketplace, customers can access the whole
portfolio and follow promotions, news and
deals we offer. We know our portfolio better than
anyone else, so we can offer the most appropriate
domain name to customers with the right pricing.
Moreover, through Noktadomains.com, the customer
can buy our domain names with without paying any
commission or transfer fee."
For
the time being, Nokta is listing only domains that
they own for sale. However that may change. They
said, "We
are very interested in further collaboration with
other marketplaces and individual domain owners.
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sales
experience would be very useful to our future
partners for both domain acquisition and sales.
Once our marketplace is technically developed
enough, we would be selling other portfolios as
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Still
another aftermarket solution is expected to be unveiled in
the next week or two. In our Lowdown item yesterday
about domains being jointly developed by T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Howard Neu and the Rodan Media
Group, Rodan spokesman Danny Pryor said they
are about to launch a new domain sales site at
BestDomainsWebsite.com. Pryor
said, "Domain investors and prospectors will have the
opportunity to view the domains for sale, view the search
metrics related to keywords in the domain name itself and
view a screen shot of the domain."
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