Raspberry.com

[britishbulldog]

on snapnames bidding is upto 12.5K with 2 days to go.............

Any thoughts where it will finish ?

[draggar]

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(couldn't resist)

[TheLegendaryJP]

Factor in the environment, suspicious or ungenuine bidding and the fact its a fruit..10's of thousands. I would guess $40k-$50k +/- but I may be high ( 2007 mind set lol )

[james2002]

It will be interesting to watch it.

[wmloz]

Not to mention I'm sure a lot o people spell it rasberry!

[TheLegendaryJP]

Originally Posted by wmloz

Not to mention I'm sure a lot o people spell it rasberry!

Funny, I also noticed the ovt/w history on the name wasnt that great 40-70ish. Just doesnt imo have the elements to justify big money but hey that's just me.

[stewie]

i'll say 27-32k

thx, keep us posted

[DomainsInc]

good generic domain. very minimal traffic by the looks of it though.

[Creature]

16.2k is enough for this one

[chillking]

I bidded on it but i only expected it to go up to mid x,xxx I think it might sell for way overpriced theirs to many bidding wars now on snapnames .

[Adapt Web]

Has 'branding' written all over it to me.. "have you checked out raspberry??"

[pcproffenno]

Oh my god. . I was going to bid on this one as well and I wasn't going to go higher than $5k.

BTW, has anyone been watching Sedo/Snap/Namejet the last week/couple of weeks? I've noticed a major price increase in domain names, but maybe I'm wrong (no more sub $3k LLL.coms etc.)?

[tetrapak]

Stian, I see the same, but let's wait and see what the next few weeks will bring.

[exxe]

it's way overpriced, imo

[Seraphim]

I bid 11K, as it has solid branding potential. Wouldn't pay more than that though.

[Rockefeller]

probably fetch 35, but could see it going to 50s

[chillking]

I dont think its as brandable as what some people are saying because of allot of people will spell it wrong best brandable names are small and easy to spell basicaly simple small words.

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by TheLegendaryJP

Funny, I also noticed the ovt/w history on the name wasnt that great 40-70ish. Just doesnt imo have the elements to justify big money but hey that's just me.

It may be seasonal.

For instance, I just conducted searches last month for Caroline Raspberry.

Anyone wanting to plant raspberries or order them for planting may have already searched.

Next along will be care for raspberries, raspberry recipes and raspberry pricing, and perhaps later in the year pruning raspberries.

I am just thinking of a chronological order for a seasonal product, which this essentially is.

For instance, NFLFreeAgent dot com would have been a bigger search term in the spring than the fall or winter months.

I would love to have Raspberry dot com. But only if I was a retailer or wholesaler of plants or the berries themselves. Then it would be game on if I could warrant the price vs. traffic.

It is a niche product, but still generic.

Personally, I would give anything for Berry or Berries which encompasses numerous varities of berries (blue, straw, black, goose, cran).

I would not want brambles, of which many varieties of berries are known in the trade.

Sorry to ramble on about brambles.

Just trying to justify the price vs. interests.

Shame of it is, it is most likely going to end up in the hands of a domainer and not an end-user.

raspberry 1 - 3 $0.77 1,000,000 (march search volume) 673,000 (average per month)

[Seraphim]

Originally Posted by chillking

I dont think its as brandable as what some people are saying because of allot of people will spell it wrong best brandable names are small and easy to spell basicaly simple small words.

Misspellings are a minuscule issue with the domain, as it's not going have any substantial type-in traffic to begin with. On the branding front, the "p" is a low single digit bleeder at the most. The real issue is versatility, outside of branding it, what are you going to do with it? There is next to zero market online for the raw keyword. Even if you locked down the #1 search position in Google, MSN, and Yahoo, I guarantee you'll struggle to pull it north of 1K unique hits per day, and with a PPC driven site the CTR will be god-awful. Therefore in my opinion, it's a 10+ year long shot investment. It does have that solid six figure sale potential, but the probability is pretty low. Mid 5 figures in my opinion is going to just about suck the thing bone dry, but such is life when egos and wallets collide via the drop auctions (a place where I rarely see sound investment choices being made in that range).

[steven22]

I did not backorder as I thought it was a typo.