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Greetings people! I'm Vladimir Savelyev at the keyboard again, can I briefly say Vlad It's a great day, isn't it?! It's time to write an interesting and useful article...

Today, a short but interesting note on the topic - where you can sell a website or domain, buy it, and also find out the cost of the website! And if you don’t even want to sell your creation, then find out about it approximate cost— very interesting, isn’t it?!

Read on topic:

I'm wondering, has anyone ever sold websites or domains? If yes, then share the information with us, maybe someone will find it useful... in general, comment!

Now, using the service that you will find below, I found out the approximate cost of my website and it is equal to 79 dollars. Why so little does not surprise me - my website is only 5 months old, over time the cost of the site will only grow and grow!

IN currently enough a large number of people have their own personal websites and blogs. There are cases when some users are the owners of 20-30 resources at once and this is not the limit. It's just terrible how they follow them...

Where can I sell a website (domain)

Okay, let’s say you decide for personal reasons to sell your website, blog, forum, or online store. Before you start selling a website, you need to estimate its value, right?!

Unfortunately, there are a fairly large number of scammers on the Internet who deliberately underestimate the cost of a website in order to get it much cheaper. In order to get the approximate cost of a website, you need to go to MySiteCost.ru, where you will see the cost of your resource, as well as other interesting data.

The service takes into account various calculations to determine the cost. For example - domain age, traffic, income from Google AdSense or Yandex Direct and much more...

Certainly exact cost of the site No one will tell you, all this is approximately...

So, we’ve decided on the cost of the website for sale, let’s move on...

Selling a website is not that difficult at the moment. You just need to place it on one of the many exchanges dedicated to this topic. For example, the Telderi exchange offers quite a lot of functionality, and this exchange is visited by a fairly large number of potential website buyers.

Before you start selling your site on this exchange, you need to complete a short registration. It is not recommended to greatly inflate the price of the site, because the exchange shows the amount of income that the site brings, as well as its traffic.

It is worth considering that many exchanges charge a commission per transaction. Be careful about this issue, because sometimes the commission can be up to 10 percent or even more.

You can also sell your website or domain on these exchanges:

Maybe you yourself will find something interesting on the Internet. Then share the information in the comments...

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There is such a thing on the Internet as Cybersquatting- (eng. cybersquatting) - registration of domain names containing a trademark owned by another person for the purpose of their further resale or unfair use. People who practice such actions are called cybersquatters.

Many web studios, webmasters, or those who want to make money in the future on a good domain name are involved in cybersquatting.

I don’t do this on purpose, but quite often I buy domains for project ideas that are floating around in my head. For example, some new trend in fashion, cinema, sports or some hobbies appears abroad - I check if there is free domains related to this, and register. I periodically register regional domain names. There are fewer and fewer “beautiful” ones left in the RU zone, the Internet is developing in the regions - soon every tray in mall will have its own website.

Naturally, many purchased domains sit idle for me. There's just absolutely no time to study. A potential buyer contacted me about one today through a hoster - that’s why I remembered cybersquatting
- and decided to write a post about 25 most expensive resold domains in Internet history.

The 25 Most Expensive Domain Names in History

Edition Business Insider has compiled a list of the 25 most expensive domain names of all time. Not surprisingly, domain names associated with gambling and sex, brought the most money to their sellers.

Not long ago, the domain name Investing.com was sold for a whopping $2.45 million. But even this amount is far from what someone bought the most expensive domain name in the world for.

Internet companies have, in addition to their domain, many other financial assets that affect the final value of the domain name, so they this list not included.

For example, Insure.com was sold for $16 million, but for that price an entire profitable company was acquired.

DN Journal provided information on the sale of domain names starting in 2003, since before that time such transactions were not recorded by reliable sources.

In addition, most buyers and sellers in such transactions wished to remain anonymous, having every legal right to do so, so many names/company names were also not included on this list.

21. Cameras.com - $1,500,000

Year of sale: 2006

"Cameras.com attracted the largest amount at the live auction (participants were in the room and shouted out bids - editor's note) of domain name sales from Moniker.com as part of the recently concluded T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Conference" in Hollywood, Florida," wrote DN Journal in 2006.

The winning bidder, Sig Solares, CEO of Parked.com, wasted no time in paying $1,500,000, making it the first highest-priced domain ever sold in a live auction.

22. Russia.com - $1,500,000

Year of sale: 2009

The deal was brokered by Sedo.com in 2009. They sold this expensive domain name to Paley Media, and the owner was based in Seattle.

21. Tandberg.com - $1,500,000

Year of sale: 2007

"Tandberg Data, a leading global manufacturer and supplier in the field of Reserve copy and archiving, decided to offer the purchase of Tandberg.com from the company of the same name Tandberg, a leading global supplier in the field of visual communications, with two headquarters in New York and Norway,” wrote DN Journal at the time of the sale. The deal was actually completed in December 2006, but its results were made public in early 2007.

20. Ticket.com - $1,525,000

Year of sale: 2009

Ticket.com subsequently made a lot of money for Afternic.com, which acquired the domain name in October 2009. BuyDomains acted as an intermediary in the transaction.

19. DataRecovery.com - $1,659,000

Year of sale: 2008

Minnesota's Associated Computers Corporation sold the domain to ESS Data Recovery February 1, 2008. ESS has been trying to buy this domain for a long time.

18. Auction.com - $1,700,000

Year of sale: 2009

Auction.com is rumored to have sold for even more higher price- $2.5 million. But the domain still ranked 18th in the ranking. The buyer was then the Real Estate Disposition company.

17. Dating.com - $1,750,000

Year of sale: 2010

Dating.com was sold at the DOMAINFees auction in Lauderdale, Florida in May 2010. Another high-priced domain name sold at this auction was Boardgames.com, which went under the hammer for $450,000.

16. Fly.com - $1,760,000

Year of sale: 2009

Travelzoo spent a lot of money buying Fly.com in January 2009.

15.Seniors.com - $1,800,000

Computer.com was sold at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain auction. / Moniker in October 2007. Then, at the same auction, WallStreet.com was almost sold for $3 million, but this amount was considered not to correspond to the price reserves set by DomainRich.

13. Investing.com - $2,450,000

Year of sale: 2012

Forexpros.com bought Investing.com earlier this year for $2.45 million.

12. Social.com - $2,600,000

Year of sale: 2011

The deal was brokered with Moniker in July 2011.

11. CreditCards.com - $2,750,000

Year of sale: 2004

ClickSuccess LP, a company that sells a variety of online financial products, acquired CreditCards.com for $2.75 million, the most expensive domain sold that year.

10. Shopping.de - $2,858,945 *

Year of sale: 2008

The domain was also acquired by Unister GmbH to promote its resources Auto.de, News.de and Kredit.de.

*Shopping.de was sold in 2008 for 1,960,000 euros, which in dollar terms was then $2,858,945.

9. Candy.com - $3,000,000

Year of sale: 2009

The domain was acquired by G&J Holdings for a sweet $3 million. But the most expensive one that year was still Toys.com, which a little earlier bought ToysRUs for $5.1 million.

8. Vodka.com - $3,000,000

Year of sale: 2006

The Russian billionaire, who founded the country's largest vodka production company, bought the domain in December 2006.

This almost rhetorical question is asked by many of our users, but we will still try to find an answer to it. And consider different ways through the prism of safety and favorable prices.

1. Domain auctions

The very concept of auction implies that it will be possible to sell the domain at the most high price, because users who want to buy it place bids on it, and the domain name is sold to whoever offers it maximum amount money. But please note that you should not use unverified auctions, because... you can simply be left without your domain and without money. Auctions (exchanges) from domain registrars can be considered the safest. Therefore, go to your domain management account, and look for a link “Sell”, “Auction”, “Exchange” or something similar. The auction we liked the most is Telderi.ru. This is where the most activity was for our test lots. It is also worth noting that popular auctions have the largest registrars - nic.ru. and reg.ru. Also take a look at the pr-cy.ru project. And for Ukrainian users, I can recommend the project ukrnames.com.

2. Transaction through a guarantor

Sometimes a domain is sold using a forum (the most popular is searchengines.ru), where the seller places an ad and potential buyers offer their prices. But in this case it becomes topical issue security, because the buyer can receive the domain and not pay for it. As a result, a guarantor of the transaction becomes necessary - a third party who receives money and rights to the domain, and then transfers them to the seller and the buyer, respectively.

There are plenty of such guarantors on the same forums where domain buyers are found. But look carefully at the reputation of the guarantor and reviews about him. Although in in this case, we recommend contacting the company reg.ru, which is a very large domain registrar and provides guarantor services for the sale and purchase of websites\domain names.

How to understand how much a domain costs?

The cost of a domain is influenced by many factors: length and memorability of the name, age, subject matter, domain history, availability in catalogs (DMOZ and YAK), PR and TIC indicators, and much more. We examined this complex issue in detail in our

Sell domain name It’s quite easy, and it can be very profitable. How to properly prepare a domain name for sale and how to complete the transaction will be discussed in this article.

About selling domain names

The owner of a domain name (the person who registered it) can sell it at any time. Although it would be more correct in this case to talk about selling not the domain name itself, but the rights to it. This state of affairs is due to the intricacies of the domain name registration procedure, within which the owner receives the right to use it only for a certain period. At the same time, he has a pre-emptive right to renew the registration - if the owner does not use it, then the domain name will become free and anyone can register it. However, for the sale, it does not matter how much time is left until the end of registration, since the procedure for its renewal is fully automated and takes only a few minutes.

In order for a domain name to be considered for purchase, separate information about its owner must be in free access. Owner verification is carried out through Whois service. The main thing is that the name is indicated in the form for issuing results, because if this field is closed from public access, then it will be quite difficult to prove that the seller and the owner are the same person (and this is an additional risk for the buyer).

An important point: there is no need to transfer any documents on paper (although it may be necessary to transfer scans of documents) and a private registrar company significantly speeds up and simplifies registration.

How to estimate the value of a domain name

When registering, the owner pays a small amount to obtain the right to use the domain name, and each extension of the registration period is also paid. However, these amounts have virtually no effect on the market value of the domain name, since the price is formed based on other indicators. For example, the following factors can increase it:

similarity of the domain name with the brand;
sonority and memorability of the domain name;
This is the domain name of a site that had good traffic figures and was in demand among Internet users.

In definition approximate price can help special services, where the value of a domain name is assessed automatically. If you wish, you can independently monitor the domain name market, find objects with similar characteristics that have already been assessed by the owners and put up for sale, and set your own price based on this data. Another option is to use an auction to sell. Here it will be enough to decide on the initial price - and then the buyers themselves will name the price they are willing to pay for the domain name.

How to minimize risks when concluding a deal

Transactions on the Internet carry great risks, since the parties may find different countries, and to conclude a transaction it is not always customary to require documents or certify an agreement electronic signature. If the domain name is being sold inexpensively, then the entire process may involve transferring administration rights and transferring money. At the same time, the one who is the first to fulfill his obligations is at risk, because the counterparty can then simply disappear, having received what he wanted.

To secure the transaction, it is better to use special platforms: domain name exchanges, auctions and others. The seller can also use such a platform to search for buyers. In such cases, the transaction takes place with the participation of an intermediary, who acts as a guarantor of security for both parties when transferring administrative rights and money for the domain name.

Taxation of the transaction

For an individual selling a domain name one-time, the transaction entails obligations to pay personal income tax, the rate of which is 13%. If domain names are sold en masse, then we need to talk about systematic entrepreneurial activity - and for this you need to register a business (for example, open an individual entrepreneur), otherwise you can be fined.

How to sell a domain

Not long ago you registered a domain name, perhaps even hosted a website on it. Was it informational portal or an online store, but due to certain circumstances they changed their minds about developing the project. And now the unnecessary domain is hanging around idle? It’s unpleasant, but in this case you can sometimes earn good money. We will tell you how to sell a domain and what you need to do it.

New business of the 21st century

How much do you think a domain name monalisa.com can be sold for? Did you guess the number? How close were you to $200 thousand? This is the market value of the given name. And not the most expensive...

So is it possible to sell an attractive website address for $100 or $100,000? Certainly. But they have already all been bought up by tycoons and successful projects. Although, perhaps you will attract attention with an equally original and memorable option. That's why the new kind making money by selling domain names is becoming quite popular and profitable.

You need to understand that not every title can be sold for a couple of zero dollars, and it’s profitable to buy good name You may not have time. Demand is high and if you bought a good name, you may not wait for it to become available. You can, of course, try to come to an agreement, but this topic should be devoted to a separate article, but now let’s look at options where you can sell an already unnecessary domain name.

Options, places, methods

"Man-man." Two options:

You posted your ad online and found a buyer.
We found a purchase offer and contacted a potential client.

Selling domains in these ways is risky - you can find many examples and angry complaints on the Internet about how someone “cheated” someone with a sale. And all because in the case of “person-to-person” someone will have to take the first step. Or you transfer your domain name to the buyer, and then he transfers money to you. Or vice versa. And here someone can cheat.

"Intermediary services". You can sell your domain at auction. Services of this type are a guarantee of an honest transaction. The seller leaves a request and Additional information about your domain name. Then all that remains is to wait for the buyer. The advantages of such services are that transactions are completed quickly and both parties are insured against losses.

Using SEDO as an example

How to sell a domain name using the “person-to-person” formula is more than clear. But when working with auctions, some people have questions: what is needed to register; how to put a domain up for sale; How do I know if someone wants to buy it?

It all depends on the service you turned to for help. Let's look at the option of how to sell a domain at a specialized auction.

There are a large number of services on the Internet that help you find a buyer for your domain. You can choose the one that you think will be convenient to work with. To sell domains through auctions, you need to go through a simple registration and confirm your account via phone or written agreement.

After activating your account, additional menu fields will become available: how to sell a domain, buy, renew, etc. Select the cell you are interested in, and the service will ask you to enter information about the domain: name, price. Next, you just have to wait for confirmation from the service. Once approved, your “lot” will appear in offers. This is a typical scheme for most auctions.

You already know the options for how to sell. We read about their pros and cons. Perhaps you even chose a service or forum where to sell a domain name.

Selling a domain to a stranger based on a verbal agreement is at your own peril and risk. Only if you make sure that the client is reliable and is satisfied with the “money in advance” option.
The price largely depends on the parameters of age, authority, and domain links. The more “+” in the “green zone” (i.e. good indicators), the more zeros in the price for the address.
Before selling, evaluate the domain parameters so that if the display is incorrect, you can make corrections in a timely manner.

Otherwise - profitable deals and honest clients!

Domain store

The Domain Store is designed to make it easier for domain sellers to find a buyer, and for buyers to guarantee the rights to the purchased domain name. Selling through our store is fast, simple and convenient.

Salesman

puts the domain up for sale and sets a price

considers buyers' offers

receives money from sales

RU-CENTER

guarantees the legality of the transaction

protects the interests of the seller and buyer

transfers the domain to the buyer and money to the seller

Buyer

negotiates the price

obtains rights to a domain name

You can put up for sale a domain registered in RU-CENTER: Russian, international, foreign or new. The seller needs to fill out an application for transfer of rights online once - such confirmation is enough to list an unlimited number of domain names in the store.

Questions and answers

What is a domain store?

The store allows the domain administrator to sell it to a specific buyer or put it up for public sale.

What documents need to be provided?

It is enough to fill out an application for transfer of rights online once and submit it to the RU-CENTER office or one of our regional representatives. You can send the document by regular mail.

All operations for selling a domain take place in a secure session after the seller indicates a code sent via SMS to the number specified in the application for transfer of rights online.

What domains can be put up for sale?

Only domains serviced by RU-CENTER. If your domain is located at another registrar, you need to transfer it to RU-CENTER before putting it up for sale.

How to put a domain up for sale?

Go to the “My Domain Store” section.
Click on the “Put domains for sale” button.
Enter the code to enter the secure session - we will send it via SMS to the number you specified in the application for transfer of rights online.
Specify the domains you want to put up for sale: enter manually, select from the list, or use bulk loading. Specify your selling parameters.
Click on the “Put for sale” button.
Information about the result of listing for sale is displayed as it is processed.

How to set up selling parameters?

The parameters for selling domains are set in the “My Domain Store” section.

selling price for buyers;
possibility of bargaining (willingness to consider a price lower than stated);
privacy of sale - if you need to sell a domain to a specific buyer without showing the offer in general catalog;
domain category - this will make it easier for buyers to search in the domain directory.

You can change your sales parameters at any time, but in this case all orders and offers from potential buyers that have already been received will be cancelled.

Who can sell domains in the store?

Only the administrator of a domain registered in RU-CENTER, a resident of the Russian Federation, working under a NIC-D agreement (including those managed by a NIC-REG partner) can sell a domain in the store.

How can buyers find my domain?

Domains put up for open sale in the store are available:

in the domain store catalog;
in the results of checking and selecting domains on nic.ru, including in the case of searching for a domain similar to the one being sold;
via a direct link to the domain card in the store.

How to find a page for a specific domain in the store?

During open sales, the domain card is available at nic.ru/shop/domain_name.
For private sales, the domain card is available at nic.ru/shop/unique_code.

The following are deducted from the price paid by the domain buyer:

for sellers with the Business Pro club status - 3% of the sale amount (but not less than 300 rubles);
for sellers with the Business Plus club status - 6% of the sale amount (but not less than 300 rubles);
for all other sellers - 10% of the sale amount (but not less than 300 rubles);

tax withheld by RU-CENTER and paid for individuals carrying out sales.

An example of calculating the amounts that the parties to a transaction with a domain worth 10,000 rubles will receive:

An example of calculating the amounts that sellers with the “Business Pro” status will receive for a transaction with a domain worth 10,000 rubles:

How to get money for a sold domain?

Money for a sold domain can be transferred to:

to the personal account of the seller’s contract (NIC-D);
to the bank using the seller’s details (account, bank card).

The money is credited to the seller's account within 10 business days after the transaction is completed.

Why is the domain accepted into the store, but not put up for sale?

In some cases, a domain hosted in a store cannot be put up for sale:

There are less than 5 days left until the domain registration expires. Renew your domain registration and it will automatically be put up for sale in the store.
It is impossible to carry out the procedure for changing the administrator for a domain.
Insufficient time since the last change of administrator:
- less than 30 calendar days - for RU, RF, NET.RU, ORG.RU, PP.RU;
- less than 60 calendar days - for SU, EXNET.SU, RU.NET, COM.RU.
Insufficient time since the last change of registrar:
- less than 30 calendar days - for RU/RF;
- less than 60 calendar days - for SU, foreign, international and new domains.
The domain is up for sale at auction. To put a domain up for sale in a store, you must remove it from auction.
The domain is prohibited from changing the administrator. Remove this restriction and the domain will automatically be put up for sale.
The domain is transferred to another registrar. To list a domain for sale in a store, you must cancel the request to change the registrar.

How to put a large number of domains up for sale?

To put domains up for sale in bulk:

Download from the “My Domain Store” section and fill in MS Excel suitable sample:
- empty template;
- a file with seller domains already offered for sale in the store (with specified parameters sales);
- a file with all domains on the seller’s agreement (in zones for which sale in the store is available).
Save the completed template in TSV format ( text file with a tab delimiter of no more than 1,000 lines).
When uploading the file, select "Replace selling parameters for existing domains", if you need to change the sales parameters to those specified in the file.

How to sell a domain to a specific buyer?

To sell to a specific buyer, when listing the domain in the store, specify the privacy of the sale in the parameters. The domain will not be put on public sale; its card will only be available via a link like nic.ru/shop/unique_code. It is available in the “My Domain Store” section - it can be copied and transferred to a specific buyer to place an order for the purchase of a domain.

How to allow buyers to bid for a domain?

How to buy a domain in the store?

Select a domain from the catalog, create and pay for a purchase order. Until payment is made, the domain may be purchased by another client or withdrawn from sale. If your contract is managed by a NIC-REG partner, please contact them to generate a purchase order.

How long does the domain transfer procedure take?

Depending on the status of the seller, the domain transfer procedure can take from several minutes to several days:

domain transfer from the RU-CENTER client takes a few minutes;
The transfer of a domain from a foreign partner of RU-CENTER takes several days.

How to offer your price to the seller?

You can offer your price to the seller only if the possibility of bargaining is indicated on the domain page. Enter your price and submit an offer. The seller has 2 weeks to consider your offer. If there is no response from the seller within this time, or if the seller changes the parameters for selling the domain, your offer will be void.

Once the seller reviews your offer, you will receive a notification by email or SMS.

Who bids if the buyer's contract is managed by a NIC-REG partner?

A buyer whose contract is managed by a NIC-REG partner cannot independently offer his price to the buyer and does not receive notification of the results of its consideration. The partner forms an offer and acts as a bidder.

Moreover, if the seller has approved the price offered by the NIC-REG partner, the accepted price is valid for any client of the partner.

At what price will the purchased domain be renewed?

After purchasing a domain, it will be renewed at the standard price.

How to monitor sales/purchases?

Information about the domain sale process is available in the “My Domain Store” section and is sent to email seller and buyer.

You can sign up to receive additional notifications:

RU-CENTER guarantees that the seller will receive money for the domain name sold, and the buyer will receive the rights to the purchased domain.

Selling domains

How to sell a domain expensively and safely?

This almost rhetorical question is asked by many of our users, but we will still try to find an answer to it. And let’s look at different methods through the prism of safety and favorable prices.