Domain Buy Offers From My Minisites

Although I do not speak about my AEIOU.com minisites as much here of late due to my focus on my full business development of Missouri.me and my other Geo domain names I do still keep tabs on them and do link building and other items related to the tender loving care of the sites. The majority of them are revenue generating and most lived up to the 10 month ROI that I was hoping for.

But, most importantly the thing that has been most surprising is the sales that have occurred from the For Sale link on the Minisite. I was always a bit skeptical about putting a For Sale link on a domain minisite since I was concerned about it pushing actual users away from the site even if the information on the site was useful. Luckily though that seems to not of been an issue since the CTR on most of the sites is quite solid (in some cases it exceeds 20 percent).

In the past 2 months I have had offers through the For Sale link on 3 different domains, 2 of them are closed deals and a 3rd we could not come to terms but if we had even at the offer that I received and turned down it would of been a profitable transaction. Also, before someone thinks that these are $500 deals after spending $200 on a minisite plus the domain cost that would not be the case. Both of the closed deals were mid $x,xxx, oh yeah and they were .NET domains.

The percentage of offers on these names compared to parked names or minisites without an obvious For Sale sign has been a bit surprising. I did not expect the largest profit to come from domain offers compared to Adsense revenue from these AEIOU.com sites.

This is one time I am very happy to of been proven wrong, I honestly expected the offers to dry up on these names after a site was developed on it. I like surprises:)