Should I Sell My Domains on Ebay?

As a veteran Ebay seller, my first instinct was that there must be a thriving domain sales market on Ebay. This is far from the case. In reality, many of the domains listed in one of 2 sections dealing with domains are way overpriced:

All Categories > Computers & Networking > Other Hardware & Services > Domain Names

All Categories > Business & Industrial > Websites & Businesses for Sale >

In that spirit I listed my thepokerwinner.com at the pretty outrageous price of $2,000. Despite paying $19.99 for a "featured" listing, I barely got any hits - big surprise, lol! I reconfigured the listing to allow bidding to begin at $10, and lowered the "buy it now" to $500 bucks, and the traffic on the auction has quadrupled. I still doubt I'll sell this domain on Ebay.

I knew beforehand that listing on Ebay was not likely to produce a domain sale. Why? Because I researched "completed listings" and saw that domain name sales were far and few between, despite the relatively large number of listings (1384 auctions in the domain name category as of today). But I thought what the heck, let's see whether an Ebay auction can generate anything - and the answer for now is no.

As for buying on Ebay - there are definitely some deals to be had if you look carefully, particularly people trying to dump like 50 "4 letter" .com URLs for a bargain basement price. These are people about to lose their dinero anyway, as paying the re-registrations on 50 domains would run you over $450 even on Godaddy where they are cheap.

If you know what you are looking for, you might find a golden nuggest among these listings. And if likewise you have some URLs you are about to let expire, why not throw them up on Ebay and see if you can salvage a couple hundred bucks.