We've rebuilt our marketing site and marketplace from the ground up with a completely new design, faster technology, AI-powered search, and a buying experience built around one goal:
Helping founders find the perfect domain:
I just published a completely hopium-free guide to selling a domain name.
There is some history here.
In 2018, I wrote a nine-part guide on DN Geek that reached the first page of Google within a few months.
I later sold DN Geek, the guide disappeared, and so did the ranking. Its framework lived on, though. Search for “how to sell a domain name” today and quite a few results will look strangely familiar.
Eight years and hundreds of domain sales later, I decided to write it again from scratch.
This guide won’t tell you what most domain owners want to hear.
The fact that you love your domain doesn’t make it valuable. The business idea you once had for it doesn’t add to the price. An automated appraisal is not proof of value. Listing a domain on a marketplace doesn’t create demand...
Sometimes a great domain needs years to find the right buyer.
Sometimes the price is wrong.
And sometimes the domain simply isn’t as good as you think.
Knowing the difference is what selling domain names is really about.
If you own domain names you want to sell, whether it’s one or a thousand, I think this is worth reading:
efty.com/seller-guide/post/5…
The Efty Distribution Network keeps growing.
This week, Aftermarket.com and BrandSearch.com have joined EDN, bringing the network to more than a dozen distribution partners.
More partners. More discovery. More eyeballs on your domains 👀💸
Small sales from today - I'm accepting offers around 1k on these kind of names that i paid almost nothing for and may not have renewed - osprey.id was less than a year hold, and zonetrip.com was about 18 months. i know i can do better with the proceeds
Increasing buyer trust is an ongoing effort at Efty.com and our latest update gives stories from founders and their experience buying a domain with us a prominent place through the marketplace.
We've rebuilt our marketing site and marketplace from the ground up with a completely new design, faster technology, AI-powered search, and a buying experience built around one goal:
Helping founders find the perfect domain:
The redesign isn't just visual.
We completely rethought the experience.
Working with Dutch designer Meike Zoer, we created a bold new visual identity that breaks away from the traditional look of domain marketplaces.
We believe premium doesn't have to mean predictable.
We work hard at educating buyers at Efty.
Over the years, we've seen exactly what moves negotiations forward and what kills them.
So I wrote a playbook for buyers.
It digs into the do's: be the real deal, open with a number worth countering..
And the don'ts: dancing around the budget, bluffing, or in some cases, negotiating at all.
If you sell domains, this is the piece you want your buyers to read before they reach out:
The Insider Guide to Closing the Domain You Want efty.com/knowledge/post/141/…
More eyes on your domains 👀
Today, we're launching the Efty Distribution Network (EDN), making eligible Efty Marketplace listings available across a growing network of domain industry partners.