# What's the best way to sell a domain name?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 4, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403 "2002-07-04T20:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403/1 "2002-07-04T20:23:20Z")

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I have a few domains that I thought I would play with, but never did, and I figure I might as well offload them before they expired and became worthless (to me).

Any idea where I should start? I was thinking about eBay, and google turned up a service called Afternic, but I really don’t know how well either one works for this kind of thing.

So…any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Gopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gopher)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403/2 "2002-07-05T06:40:12Z")

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What are their names? If they’re something common that a company would really want you could make a lot of money that way. Just pleeeeaaase, don’t sell it to a domain name squatter. Those really annoy me.

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403/3 "2002-07-05T08:03:29Z")

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The ones I’m thinking of dumping are .us names. One or two might be of interest to fundies, one or two might be of interest to pornographers. One of 'em would be of interest to somebody with a twisted sense of humor. The last one is [godhates.us](http://godhates.us).

Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. 😉

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-sell-a-domain-name/117403/4 "2002-07-08T21:11:58Z")

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Please tell me I’m not the first doper who’s had a domain name to sell… ☹