How selling your domain on consignment works

You own an aged domain but don't have the buyer network to sell it well. That's the whole point of consignment. We take the risk side of the deal — vetting, listing, marketing, escrow-grade payment handling, transfer — and you pay nothing upfront. Commission comes out only when the domain actually sells.

Why sell through domain consignment instead of listing it yourself

You could post the domain on a forum or a marketplace and wait. Plenty of sellers do exactly that, and most of them get lowballed, because a buyer has no easy way to verify the DR, the referring domains, or whether the backlink profile is actually clean. We've already done that verification before the listing goes live, so buyers pay closer to what the domain is actually worth instead of what they can talk you down to.

The tradeoff is simple: we take a cut, you get access to buyers who trust the listing enough to pay a fair price without a week of back-and-forth.

Step 1 Submit the domain

Open Sell Your Domain and fill in the form. Three fields matter more than the rest: DR, referring domains, and backlinks. Providing all three triggers an instant automated valuation on our side, anchored to real auction comps, so the price conversation starts from data instead of a number you picked because it felt right.

Sellers who skip these fields, or guess at them, usually get a lowball automated estimate — the system can only work with what you give it.

Step 2 Vetting and the offer

Within 48 hours we run the full clean-check pipeline: Wayback history, redirect abuse, anchor profile, index status. We compare your asking price against the automated valuation and come back with one of three answers — a listing proposal, a direct purchase offer, or a pass with the reason stated.

We routinely reject domains that look fine on the surface but fail a five-minute history check. Old PBN footprints, redirect chains stacked three or four deep, an anchor text profile nobody would call natural — these show up fast once you actually look. If we pass on your domain, we'll tell you why, not just that we did.

Step 3 Listing and the sale

Accepted domains go into our inventory with the name masked to non-registered visitors — the same protection our own stock gets, so buyers can't skip the platform and go straight to you. Buyers see verified metrics, the clean score, and an estimated value range before they ever see the actual domain name.

When someone buys, payment runs through our checkout — bank transfer, crypto, PayPal, or card. You're not handling escrow yourself, and you're not chasing a buyer who ghosts after agreeing on a price over email.

Step 4 Commission and payout

• Commission is agreed per deal, typically 30–35% of the sale price, with 32.5% as the default.
• The moment an order is paid, the payout math locks automatically: sale price minus commission equals your payout. A domain that sells for $2,000 at the default rate nets you $1,350.
• You transfer the domain to the buyer — we coordinate the push and EPP handover — and your payout goes out by bank transfer or crypto.

The commission covers the vetting, the listing, buyer acquisition, payment risk, and transfer support. No sale, no fee — we only make money when you do.

What happens if it doesn't sell

Nothing bad, honestly. Some domains sit in inventory for months before finding the right buyer, especially niche-specific ones with a smaller pool of interested parties. There's no penalty for not selling, and no obligation to accept an offer below what you're willing to take. If your metrics and asking price are realistic, most vetted domains do move — but we're not going to pretend every listing sells fast.

If your domain has real numbers behind it, submitting it costs you nothing and takes about five minutes. Worst case, we pass and tell you why.