Wiki.com - $3 million

**Rubber Duck** · 08-04-2006, 06:14 PM

I have to say that I am not sure that there are not TM issues here. Perhaps the delays relate to getting the thing TM'ed before the ballon payment is made.

**DNWizardX9** · 09-04-2006, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by octobus

The ovt with extension figure is far from impressive. This domain was not bought for it's traffic for sure.

According to the dnjournal article the amount of traffic it receives is tremendous.

BTW: does anyone know if wiki.com is doing well as they expected?

**syed** · 09-18-2006, 10:32 PM

When I heard it was sold for $3m I didnt believe it! $500k-$1m seems like more reasonable to me considering the risk

**syed** · 09-18-2006, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by DNWizardX9

According to the dnjournal article the amount of traffic it receives is tremendous.

BTW: does anyone know if wiki.com is doing well as they expected?

It should be. It also has a 16k alexa rank. Probably about 350-500k uniques a month.
Definitely a great domain, but I wouldnt pay over a million for it, unless it is earning significant income.

I am kind of surprised that the possible sale is already discussed on the forums.. I mean if the buyer backs out, it would definitely reduce the value of the domain. For example, I wouldnt be interested for $3m (considering I had that kind of money) after the unsuccessful sale, as I would strongly assume that the traffic was a lot less than the buyer assumed and offered $3m for.

**Beachie** · 09-18-2006, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by DNWizardX9

According to the dnjournal article the amount of traffic it receives is tremendous.

I'm not convinced the traffic is really high. Maybe 20k uniques per month. This name, while nice, needs a strong business plan to make it work.

**syed** · 09-19-2006, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Beachie

I'm not convinced the traffic is really high. Maybe 20k uniques per month. This name, while nice, needs a strong business plan to make it work.

If you noticed, it is already a website (BETA). 20k uniques from type-ins is possible but I am sure it is being promoted as it has 16k alexa.. very unlikely without bought traffic.

**David G** · 09-19-2006, 06:06 PM

I read at a different forum interesting evidence that it alledgedly gets a significant percentage of its traffic from an excellent (and strong trademark violation) Google typo which forwards to wiki.com Not sure if the buyer knows about it?