EvannaLynch.com, 500+ unique visitors, 1500+ pages per day

[Varlin]

Evanna Lynch (http://www.evannalynch.com) will be Luna Lovegood in the upcoming Harry Potter movies. Evanna Lynch is a novel actress, and her success has been unbelievable, even before the premiere. A Google search for "Evanna Lynch" (quoted, not random appearances) will yield more than 280,000 results. And that began the very next week after Evanna Lynch was appointed as the new Harry Potter's star! Also, a search for "Evanna Lynch" in Yahoo yields more than 370,000 results.

Evanna Lynch's fan sites are growing everywhere, but NONE OF THEM could get the only domain name that really matters, the solid, simple, non-dashed, dotcom, EvannaLynch.com. They had to work with:

- Lame extensions
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Dashed versions
- Other

Next Harry Potter movie just released, yet Evanna Lynch is being recognized as an acting phenomenon (and also a popularity phenomenon) WORLDWIDE.

Just imagine the HUGE traffic this domain will get when the movie is fully unleashed! Some trivia about Evanna Lynch:

- Evanna was chosen for the role of Luna Lovegood over 15,000 other girls.

- Once she was announced as being cast the role of Luna Lovegood, Evanna was escorted around her school grounds by two security guards.

- As a Harry Potter fanatic she dreamed of playing the role of Luna. She and her friends even made a recording of her acting out the part and sent it to Warner Brothers but without any success.

- When Evanna Lynch was younger she once wrote a letter to JK Rowling regarding her low hopes of being cast as Luna in the films because she is from Termonfeckin. Jo's response read "Don't be too hard on Termonfeckin; it does have a brilliant name". Jo is aware and "quite amazed" at the excellent coincidence.

- Evanna has read each of the Harry Potter books 6 or 7 times.

- On the Order of the Phoenix book release day unfortunately Evanna was in hospital, her parents managed to get permission to take her out so she could queue up for her copy of the book.

- Evanna has a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix from JK Rowling.

- JK Rowling said that SHE WAS PERFECT for the role.


BIN: 5,000

Another way to negotiate: Make an offer on sedo, but be aware that I reserve the right to initiate a sedo auction with such offer as a starting bid, to let the market speak.


Forecast:

We expect that a fan site for Evanna Lynch can get as much as 2000 visitors per day during the initial phase of a developed site (first 1-3 months). That is a HUGE exposure for the design and programming team that decides to develop the website. Based on personal communications with some Evanna websites owners/managers, a fully developed website could get as much as 7000 visitors per day (210,000+ uniques per month), and thats just after the first movie is out. Conservatively speaking, traffic will likely go 4-10 times higher when Evanna's supremacy is consolidated and more movies are released, and go near or above the 1 million uniques per mo.

EvannaLynch.com does not have dashes, typos or other kind of flaws commonly seen in celebrity-related domain names. It's also a .com (by far THE BEST TLD, not a second-chance .net or .org. This domain name is just THE BEST of its class.

Current stats are publicly available thru SEDO tracker (at the bottom of the pages). SEDO tracker is WELL KNOW for their honest statistics, and their tendency to "underestimate" relative to other tracking methods, but actually many people, including me, think that SEDO tracker reports TRUE uniques, while other methods are loose and report many useless visits as uniques.

BOTTOMLINE: EvannaLynch.com domain name is SMOKING HOT!

[dolansco]

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She is big news here in Ireland for some time .

Good luck with sale.

[Varlin]

570+ visitors per day, 2300+ pages per day and growing!

[jovigirl]

so what happens when her lawyers just claim it for free?

[DavidAusman]

Varlin, forget about those traffic forecasting. A figure of how much you earn per day will help people decide how much to bid

I offer $500 without looking at stats.

[dolansco]

$600

[Varlin]

Aboutwhat, I know ppl like revenue stats, but I have been unable to make YPN work with wordpress. When evanna was just parked I got like $3 per week, but that was when traffic was 13-30 uniques a day. Similar sites using AdSense (and not truly optimized for best CTR) have reported 45-90 bucks per month BEFORE the movie release (personal communications).

Even if some think that traffic alone is not important, just to let you know, prognose for today is 720 uniques, thats 30 visitors per hour!

[Varlin]

Very short-term, but it's making $3+ a day on NameDrive.

[whydna]

Not worth the asking price. New owner will probably run into huge TM issues once she gets big. Not to mention the fact that you have a huge "for sale" sign on the website, which will only help her case...

[insomnia]

Trademark case, buyer will lose it. See this WIPO case:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/d...2002-1104.html

[Varlin]

Well you bashers made your point. I will make mine: Celebrity domains are VERY OFTEN traded amicably with the interested party, for prices in the 5-25K range, with no fights, lawsuits, lawyers, discussions, or even bargaining.

I have recently sold a celebrity domain name to the celebrity HIMSELF, who kindly offered me $2000, without a glitch. Not as famous as Evanna is now. He knew he could made me to relinquish it under legal action, but most ppl prefer an amicable trade. Anyway, I "saved" his name from being taken by other ppl to sell stupid things or show p o r n ads.

EmmaWatson.com is NOT owned by Emma Watson but by some "fans" who happen to monetize it heavily thru AdSense.

So WHAT'S YOUR POINT? As domainers we seek to make money, period. There are pros and cons, risks and gains. I took a risk when I bought this domain name and I plan to make a gain. Whoever buys it will take a risk too, and can make a big gain too. The domain monetizes pretty well, so the risk is balanced by the promise of easy recovery of the invested amount plus a big chance of selling it at a gain.

So... well... I better don't use the words here... Go bash anywhere else, please.

[Varlin]

Traffic now steady at 400+ per day, 12000+ per mo without any promotion but the movie release bringing natural searches. Parking revenue stats available for serious bidders.

[Varlin]

Almost Sold