I suggest you use other sources, not only sedo, use forums like namepros or domainstate. Use brokers, search for a few that are very well known and respected, probably they won’t accept most of your names if they’re not good names, but they might take a few if they’re good. Some of the best i know are Stephen Douglas, Kevin Jackson, Eric Rice, Rick Latona, Andy Cumbria. There’s also a nice swedish site called missdomain, and there are a lot of other sites dedicated to acquiring and brokering domains, google it or yahoo it, search, learn, dotpound is a nice auction site too

Good luck

I started out in this business in May 08 and basically just hand-registered domains like crazy. After a while I realized that many of these had no value what so ever – but I still managed to compile roughly 2,600 .com’s now – and I use SEDO on all of them. It generates a fraction of what I spent, and I’ve only sold 7-8 names since then. The last one in September 08.

I’ve read a zillion articles and blogs about selling domains and the concensus seems to be “sit back – relax – and pray someone contacts you and buys it before renewal is due”.

If you have any good suggestions for a newbie that already done the mistake of buying this many domains – I would certainly appreciate it greatly. I have no knowledge of development, so I’ve tried SEDO, WhyPark and DevHub without much luck.

Thank you.

I live in Norway and it’s always been cheaper to buy my domains through GoDaddy at $7.59 incl. fees rather than using a Norwegian registrar. Until Oct 08 you would be paying 5 to 5.50 Norwegian Krones (NOK) per USD, but from October it’s been as high as 7.50 NOK per USD. That’s a 40% increase in a matter of weeks!

I found a better solution through a Swedish registrar though, so now I’m paying the equivalent of US$5.70 per domain – which is roughly 25% cheaper than GoDaddy – and actually lower than what ICANN themselves charge the registrars. How it all works out in the end is beyond me, but I enjoy it while it lasts.

Thank you for addressing this problem!

// Cato