Disclosing Registrars: Why It Might Not Be a Good Idea
An idea has occurred to me after browsing thousands of domain sales listings over the years. On private portfolio websites, forums and other domain sales marketplaces, telling buyers where your domains are registered may not be so good for sales. My reasoning behind this theory is that, no matter the quality, if you’re domain is at some obscure or less-popular registrar it will turn off a buyer immediately.
What you want to do is let the buyer make an instinctive purchase decision based on quality and need of your domain name. I personally have found myself ready to purchase an after-market domain only to read the fine print that it is registered at JoeSchmoe Registrar Inc. instead of my preferred registrar, GoDaddy.
However, it is important to note that many domain industry forums require you to list registrar information. You should abide by the rules at all times in these instances. If you have your own portfolio software such as SecondVersion’s free Domain Name Portfolio, I would suggest you opt to leave all mention of registrar empty.
If a buyer truly wants to buy your domain name he will pay you and takes steps to acquire it regardless of where it’s located.
What are your thoughts and experiences? Please leave a comment.
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December 16th, 2007 at 2:32 am
A TON of people prefer GoDaddy. I on the other hand don’t. One guy PM’d me during a sale of mine and said he’ll buy the domain if I can get it transfered to GoDaddy. I told him if he wanted the name he could sign up @ Dynadot.com (my preferred registrar) for free and have it transfered himself.
I think that a person really should buy on quality instead of where the reigsrar is. Interesting observation ;).
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December 17th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Does it really matter? There’s always an option to transfer out to your preferred registrar.
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December 18th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Surely if the domain is worthwhile then you can transfer it yourself - the registrar shouldn’t be a deal-breaker…
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Great tips. Thanks for sharing. I need to find the subscribe button
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May 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
yeh i had someone who wouldn’t buy a .co.uk because couldnt transfer to godaddy,
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