Why are your domain names not selling.

So you secured your domain name and you are adamant it is the next best thing to sliced bread but when you try to sell it to an existing business why is your domain not selling?

Here are the reasons why your domain is not selling.

You domain name might not be worth anything even though you may think it does.

Unless you know anything about SEO and how domain names and their domain extensions work you need to focus on something else.

If you have a domain name that is a novelty domain hack or a .co for example but you are using keywords that do not correspond to the country cc-TLD’s domain extension why would you think your domain has value? Say you had cardiffhotels.co just as an example, if the company then tried to do PPC advertising they would get traffic from Colombia and not from Cardiff and there advertising budgets would be a waste of time and money. Do read my post on (.co) domain name: https://ukdomainbrokers.ukwebsitedesigners.co.uk/?p=1217

If you are approaching an already established business unless your domain is in demand, why would a company buy your domain? A company buys domains for the following reasons:

  1. They are branding themselves.
  2. The want to secure global positioning for the keyword search terms.
  3. They are re-branding.
  4. The want to increase traffic.
  5. They want to add SEO Links Wheels.

Not all companies have high marketing budgets.

As an example I ideally would have liked to have had the domain www.ukdb.com short for www.ukdomainbrokers.com but I do not have the budget to buy this domain even if it was ever offered to me and do not plan to cripple myself borrowing money to acquire it. Also it is not on the first page of Google for the search terms ‘UK Domain Brokers’, so it would not be beneficial to me considering I am already on the first page for the search terms ‘UK Domain Brokers’.

So unless a business that has a large marketing budget saw that the domain name was on the first page of Google generating traffic the chances of your domain selling are very slim.

Businesses want the traffic more than they want the domain name in most case if they are already established brand name.

So unless a business is branding or re-branding themselves with a short brandable word this is the only time they would consider buying your domain name, providing they had a large marketing budget of course.

The only other way a business would consider acquiring your domain name if you generated traffic for that domain and had the domain on the first page of Google. (Basically you doing all the hard work).

But in order to do so you need to develop the domain name first and perform SEO.

A domain name is just a domain name unless it has value and is in demand.

You need to show businesses that your domain is worth something otherwise at the end of the day you will not sell it.

Your domain name also need to be visible, not just parked on some marketplace. It needs to be on Google in order to be found organically.

The value of the domain name is whatever a company is prepared for it.

You can make calculations via Google Keyword planner and pre-empt how much Google will charge for bids on Google Ads but unless your domain is generating traffic, it will be like selling snow to the Eskimo’s. No one will want a domain name if they are already established unless they are branding or re-branding themselves or want more traffic and its the traffic they you need to make in order to make your domain valuable.

I leave you with these thoughts to ponder over.

Wishing you a nice weekend and stay safe.