NameJet Plans To Open Up Platform To 3rd-party Domain Sales

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As many in the domain industry have predicted, NameJet.com will soon be opening up thier platform to third party domain name sales. Recently, DNN and a few of our readers spotted domains on NameJet that were not expired domains.  These domains stood out because of their quality and sales prices and since the company is known mostly for their marketplace of selling expired domain names from Enom and Network Solutions. Steve Brown, General Manager of NameJet, confirmed with DNN today that the company does have plans to allow customers to sell their domains through the NameJet marketplace.  Brown stated, “We have been testing selling third-party domains and plan to offer this service to customers in the near future.”

The NameJet product path is similar to what SnapNames.com did a few years back by allowing domain owners to put domain names for sale through their platform.  At that time, SnapNames had a unique advantage in the marketplace. By partnering with NetworkSolutions to sell their expiring domains, SnapNames was able to attract many frequent domain buyers to their site.  Many domain owners looking to sell have taken advantage of the benefits of the SnapNames marketplace to liquidate their inventory to other domain name buyers. The launch of NameJet took the NSI expiring names contract advantage away from SnapNames.

With so many auctions and aftermarket venues, many of the frequent buyers concentrate their efforts where they find the best names more frequently, so it is likely that NameJet picked up the attention of those buyers becasuse of having the NSI and Enom expiring domain inventory.  NameJet’s move to add third-party domain auctions comes as no surprise and is a welcome addition to domain sellers looking to put their domain names in front of a pool of active buyers.

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