BoldDomain.com (wildwest reseller)

Up for sale is my Domain Name site www.bolddomain.com, which was setup back in November of last year. The site was setup using the reseller program available on Godaddy's site:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/reseller/instant.asp?se=+&ci=3306

It allows you to set the price you charge for domains, and you keep the extra amount (based on your buy price, it's all outlined on the page above). You can use this tool to see the revenue potential:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/reseller/profit_estimator.asp?se=+&app_hdr=&ci=2954

The Bad:
The site is very low traffic at the moment (136 uniques last month), and has only generated a few sales - 6 or 7 (at the price of $7.99 each they are only worth a few cents each).

The Good:
The reseller plan allows you to modify the prices, and even flag accounts for 'special pricing' (that is you can charge what you are being charged, great for buying your own domain names).
The site ranks very well in MSN for a few good terms:
Cheap Domain Names << Rank 2
Cheap SSL Certs << Rank 5

And has a lot of great backlinks:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link:bolddomain.com&FORM=QBRE

The top one is a sitewide link on a PR6 site (which I will keep there) and costs nothing. The next PR update should be very kind to this site.

I am selling this site because I am quite broke, and honestly can't afford to advertise or do much of anything (like have a more professional design done) to help get the site going. The site comes with all existing customers (billed yearly, you collect the income from those re-bills)


Auction Starting Price: $100 (half the cost of the Godaddy Reseller Plan)
Auction Reserve: NONE
Bidding Increment: $25
Buy It Now: $300


Considering trades for a proxy site. Please PM me with the details of your site.

Auction will end this Thursday at 11:59 (EST - which is about 2 days and 3 hours from the time of this post). Please post your questions below. Good luck and happy bidding!

 

You are competing against the same people you pay big bucks to for a reseller license.
With godaddy always having domain name sales (it seems to be never ending with them), hard to compete on price.

I looked into this some time back and bottom line for me was, who can compete?
And how many domains at less than a buck would I have to sell to even break even?

Good luck on selling the site.

 

I considered this as well after going after that 'cheap domain name' keyword, and then quickly switched my strategy to the SSL certs.
Honestly, all though difficult to compete, you can offer better prices and do ok. The trick is not to target the domain field, but something a little less crowded..SSL certs for one thing..

Look at hosting..it's a rediculously competetive environment, yet hundreds..if not thousands of companies do very nicely with it. Competition is a factor in deciding what business you want to start, but so is demand.

If nothing else, you'll be getting a site with some decent backlinks to use for coop or whatever link program you're a part of.

 

Figured I'd add this in as well..I will consider trades for a decent proxy website if you have one you are looking to get rid of. Just PM me with details. Thanks.

 

For the month of January, the sites revenue (for selling of domains only) was a little over $7 from those 136 uniques. Just figured I'd add that in there since the thread seemed to be dying

 

About an hour and a half left if any interest is out there.

 

?? what is a Proxy site ??

~DomainBeLL