Auctions selling unique domains entered the life of Internet entrepreneurs not so long ago, but they have already made a lot of noise. Despite the abundance of enthusiastic reviews, the majority of netizens call earnings on antique domains a “scam”, and virtual trading is another invention of scammers.
But it’s enough to get acquainted with the reviews of advanced users and it becomes clear: such auctions really exist and are in demand.
The same can be said about unique domain names. If you believe the reviews found on the Internet, making money on antique domains is not an easy task. Yes, and such domains are expensive, and access to them has the right to provide only specialists who have passed special accreditation.
How and how much you can earn
To make money at an auction of domains, you must first purchase one of them, and then sell it to the owners of some virtual companies that dream of buying a unique address. The existence of this rather serious and profitable business did not fail to take advantage of amateurs to earn extra money without doing anything.
Among the sites that have earned notoriety, there is a DoxodWork project. So, its creators assure representatives of the Internet community that working at an auction of antique domains can bring income up to 25 thousand rubles.
Domains under the hammer?
The author of one of the training videos reports that not only antiques are auctioned off at virtual auctions. There are online auctions on the Web where it is possible to earn money on antique domains. Reviews of most users who are not participating in the affiliate program are full of doubts. These people believe that you can’t make a lot of money from selling property that was discarded as unnecessary, and even virtual.
I must say that the advertising pages of the owners of virtual auctions, on which domain names are displayed as lots, have an excellent reputation and are full of enthusiastic reviews from “grateful customers”.
Internet domain earnings reviews found on the Internet
Independent experts, with the goal of exposing DoxodWork auction owners trading in “unique” domains, have signed up for this project. During the experiment, it turned out that the owners of a suspicious site offer newcomers to take their first entrepreneurial steps at their expense.
Volunteers aimed to reveal the whole truth about earning on antique domains, so their report, submitted to the court of the online public, is full of facts that only registered users can know about the project. This site is called fraudulent for several reasons:
- If the first purchase is made for the money of the site owners (as promised in the advertisement), then all subsequent ones are complained by newly made entrepreneurs, they have to pay from their own pockets.
- As soon as a predetermined amount is collected on the personal account of the entrepreneur who agreed to work at the domain auction, it turns out that it is impossible to withdraw money. The amount to be withdrawn is significantly higher than that mentioned in advertising videos and texts.
- When a user, saddened by failure, returns to his personal account, he sees only a blank page.
How to trade on the Internet
Perhaps the most sought-after personnel at the auction are users working as accelerators. Their task is to ensure the “visibility” of the unredeemed and again put up for auction lots.
Among the professional skills of these overclockers is the creation of several accounts, like two drops of water similar to each other. In this profession, advanced users say, you can meet real virtuosos. Their twin accounts are created on different computers and filled with unique information (information about the place of residence, last name and so on). Officially, the accelerators cannot be blamed for anything - they do not violate any rules.
Their goal is to sell the same nonexistent lot over and over again.
How to recognize accelerators
The prices indicated by them are ridiculously low, and the racers themselves are unnaturally active. Lot sold by them, after a while appears at the auction again. One and the same object can “pop up” three, five, ten times.
In the several years since the advent of virtual auctions, millions of users have already used their services. Some of them put up their lots for sale, someone wanted to make a purchase, and, I must say, many were satisfied with the result.
The army of users who have ever entered a virtual auction is quite numerous. According to their reviews, making money on antique domains or other lots put up for auction is quite possible, since a virtual auction is probably the best opportunity to sell and buy.
If we consider trading under the hammer as a business, experts say, then this type of activity has an impressive future. The number of auction sites is growing from year to year, and now many reputable experts rank virtual bidding as one of the branches of electronic commerce.
According to advanced users, a virtual auction is a trading platform of the future
The birth of a new industry entailed the emergence of a new profession. It's about mediation.
When choosing an intermediary, first of all, you should pay attention to his reputation. Fraudsters, who, according to experts, always "nest" near virtual auctions, have recently become more. Their methods of work are simple: mislead inexperienced beginners with attractive promises (for example, by offering money on antique domains without investments) and exceptional conditions.
There is always a wide selection of goods, and even a buyer who does not have online shopping experience can purchase them. In addition, there are much more consumers at auctions, and therefore, more opportunities for electronic merchants.
Finally, at auctions (including domain auctions) it’s easier to organize an advertising campaign, which means it’s easier to sell. And the last: the seller does not need to pay anything so that his lot appears at the auction, and the simplicity and variety of the choice of conducting preliminary negotiations between businessmen and consumers makes the probability of a successful transaction closer.