Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names.

Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along. But you’ll sell a lot more domains if you actually try to sell them.

The big challenge is finding qualified buyers for your domains.

That’s a problem that LeadRefs.com is trying to solve.

Just plug in a domain name and it searches for potential buyers of your domain name. For example, plug in TradingDerivatives.com and some of the leads returned are emails for ertradingderivatives.com and starttradingderivatives.com.

Most of the hits are for owners of similar domain names. However, the site also finds Twitter users that may be interested in your domains.

Estibot offers a similar lead generation service, which finds owners of similar domains as well as advertisers bidding on the key term.

Now before I recommend LeadRefs.com I want to discuss a big caveat: be careful about domain sales spam.

It’s becoming a big problem. Some of it is misleading (especially regarding expired domains) while other is just annoying. The problem, as I see it, is when people use automated systems to email potential buyers of domain names. They don’t check the quality of the leads and send out what is essentially spam to dozens of unqualified leads.

I’d also be careful about contacting someone on Twitter. I’ve received solicitations for domains before and usually report the user as spam.

I’m all for proactive selling of domains. Just don’t take shortcuts.

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Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels.

I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system.

Sedo has published a new fact sheet that compares the levels, and it makes more sense to me now.

Here’s the basic gist.

There are three levels: Sedo, SedoMLS Basic, and SedoMLS Premium.

If you list your domains on Sedo, regardless of the options you choose the domains will show up on Sedo.com (and its international sites) as well as select SedoMLS Basic partners. That said, most SedoMLS Basic partners will only display your name if it has a “buy now” price.

If your domain sells on Sedo’s web sites you pay a 15% commission unless the domain is parked with Sedo and has a fixed price, in which case you pay 10%. If the domain sells on a partner site, you pay a 20% commission with no discount for parked domains. There are also minimums.

For maximum exposure you need to list your domains with SedoMLS Premium. This is akin to Afternic DLS Premium. At the premium level you must list a fixed price for your domains. Customers of partner sites can instantly purchase your domain on those sites, so your domain must be registered at a partner registrar. The commission is 20%.

There are a couple notable differences between pricing at Sedo and Afternic.

Afternic offers “DLS Network”, which is fairly similar in concept to SedoMLS Basic. DLS Network charges only a 15% commission compared to Sedo’s 20%, and if you park your domain with Afternic the commission drops to 10%. With Sedo you get similar pricing only if your domain sells on Sedo’s web sites.

Second, at both company’s premium levels the commission rate is 20%. However, with Afternic it’s only 15% if you park your domains with them. Sedo does not offer a parking discount if your domain sells anywhere except its own web sites.

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Potential inventory boon for Afternic.

Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning.

This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and they can be sold through AfternicDLS’ instant transfer process.

Tucows had previously offered the ability to buy domains from AfternicDLS on its platform, which includes OpenSRS and Hover. But they couldn’t sell their domains though the Premium level on AfternicDLS, which requires the registrar to enable instant transferring of domain names.

This could prove to be a huge inventory boost for Afternic.

Tucows already listed its own portfolio of domains on Afternic, but not its customers will get access too.

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