AutismDrugs.com

[cordoba]

Quite pleased with this one, my first dropped name catch. I was lucky enough to have been searching for autism names last week when I saw this was pending delete.

There are no drugs currently that 'cure' autism, but at this moment there are 3 different next generation drugs completing clinical trials. With breakthroughs announced almost every week in identifying genes implicated in autism , it is only a matter of time before drugs become the standard (and effective) treatment for the millions of Americans alone who suffer from autism spectrum disorders.

Type autism drugs into google news and there are currently 103 news results.

I would expect in 5 years or so it should be worth at least low $xx,xxx?

[dcristo]

I'm guessing it was dropped because it get's no type-in traffic.

[Banned: democrat]

You remind me of a stock attempting to be pumped so people buy into and then someone dumps right away, leaving it upside down..

hm. Interesting name. Maybe in 5 years when they have that breakthrough, you can create a portal so that they can find it right away!

Patty

Quite pleased with this one, my first dropped name catch. I was lucky enough to have been searching for autism names last week when I saw this was pending delete.

There are no drugs currently that 'cure' autism, but at this moment there are 3 different next generation drugs completing clinical trials. With breakthroughs announced almost every week in identifying genes implicated in autism , it is only a matter of time before drugs become the standard (and effective) treatment for the millions of Americans alone who suffer from autism spectrum disorders.

Type autism drugs into google news and there are currently 103 news results.

I would expect in 5 years or so it should be worth at least low $xx,xxx?

[cordoba]

Yea, I guess mobilephones.com didn't get much type-in 15 years ago, pity any poor sucker who held onto it.

Is that the sole value of a domain? And you think it won't get any type-in traffic in 5 or 10 years time when autism drugs start hitting the online market?

O.k, I'm not a domain expert, but anyone who thinks that $9 a year renewal for a few years is not worth it for the generic term for what will likely be a multi-million dollar industry down the road must be fairly retarded.

CancerDrugs.com sold for $25,000 7 years ago just before effective cancer drugs started coming onto the market. I guess that didn't get huge type-in traffic then. Would surely sell for 10 times that price now.

Even estibot says $600. Which of course is a gross undervaluation of the generic name of a product which is not available but which certainly will be very soon.

[Banned: democrat]

Hey I am not knocking it, i am just stating that reality is that they haven't created anything & if you are willing to gamble 5-10 years worth of 9 dollar renewals. Then knock yourself out. I am just stating that, maybe it might come to fruition and maybe it won't come to fruition. We don't know and to rely on media sources is "blech" in my opinion.

Yea, I guess mobilephones.com didn't get much type-in 15 years ago, pity any poor sucker who held onto it.

Is that the sole value of a domain? And you think it won't get any type-in traffic in 5 or 10 years time when autism drugs start hitting the online market?

O.k, I'm not a domain expert, but anyone who thinks that $9 a year renewal for a few years is not worth it for the generic term for what will likely be a multi-million dollar industry down the road must be fairly retarded.

CancerDrugs.com sold for $25,000 7 years ago just before effective cancer drugs started coming onto the market. I guess that didn't get huge type-in traffic then. Would surely sell for 10 times that price now.

Even estibot says $600. Which of course is a gross undervaluation of the generic name of a product which is not available but which certainly will be very soon.

[dcristo]

It's a gamble. Plain and simple. My nephew happens to be Aspergers and is using drugs to help with managing it. He obviously isn't the only one already using Autism drugs. So why aren't people already typing in that domain now?

[cordoba]

Hey I am not knocking it, i am just stating that reality is that they haven't created anything & if you are willing to gamble 5-10 years worth of 9 dollar renewals. Then knock yourself out. I am just stating that, maybe it might come to fruition and maybe it won't come to fruition. We don't know and to rely on media sources is "blech" in my opinion.

Sorry, I was replying to the person who stated that the guy dropped it because it didn't have any type-in traffic. I was typing my post when you made yours.

Well Autismdrugs.net is up for sale for over a $1,000 so I guess he might buy autismdrugs.com for more than the registration fee.

Seriously though, I think any pharmaceutical product generic name that has over one hundred news results in Google is probably worth more than $9.

[biggedon]

Yea, I guess mobilephones.com didn't get much type-in 15 years ago, pity any poor sucker who held onto it.

Is that the sole value of a domain? And you think it won't get any type-in traffic in 5 or 10 years time when autism drugs start hitting the online market?

O.k, I'm not a domain expert, but anyone who thinks that $9 a year renewal for a few years is not worth it for the generic term for what will likely be a multi-million dollar industry down the road must be fairly retarded.

CancerDrugs.com sold for $25,000 7 years ago just before effective cancer drugs started coming onto the market. I guess that didn't get huge type-in traffic then. Would surely sell for 10 times that price now.

Even estibot says $600. Which of course is a gross undervaluation of the generic name of a product which is not available but which certainly will be very soon.

i think it's a very good catch, especially if you didn't have to bid too high.


surprized to see the bot didn't give you one of those ridiculous inflated values on this one.

must be some trickery going on with the bot....hmmm

anyway, hold the name and offers will come

five figures for sure!

[Varlin]

Good name for development. A serious website with decent traffic could help you realize the value you estimated within a few years.

I'm guessing it was dropped because it get's no type-in traffic.

True; with current TASTING practices (which I hate, BTW), only low-traffic domains remain available for us small player.

HOWEVER, and this seems to be the case, there are domains with great potential but extremely low traffic. I have captured such names for 3 years, with a variable ROI of 200 - 12,000 %, by checking daily lists of expired domains, line by line, until I find a gem (or at least a "beautiful stone").

[picassoface]

great name, i like it. pharmaceutical companies are loaded with advertising dollars...

Good luck

[jasdon11]

Autism drugs? I'm not aware of any - and while no-one knows what the causes are, I can't see any coming to market.

Reg fee IMO.

[cordoba]

Thanks for all the feedback everybody.

Autism drugs? I'm not aware of any - and while no-one knows what the causes are, I can't see any coming to market.

Reg fee IMO.

I appreciate your honesty, but your claim that it is only worth the Reg fee only relates to the amount that you would be willing to pay for it, which has no bearing whatsoever on the value of the domain. It might be that you wouldn't pay 5 cents for a ticket to watch Barcelona vs Real Madrid - that would have no relevance to somebody who had found a discarded ticket on the road and wanted to know how much it might be worth.

In fact, the domain is obviously worth more than reg fee. I could e-mail the guy selling 'AutismDrug.com' for $1,300 and I'm sure I'd get an offer from him for more than $9.

I was diagnosed as being autistic as a child and have always kept up to date on current research into medication and treatments. Whilst it is true that there are no 'autism drugs' at present (drugs designed for other disorders are increasingly used to manage some symptoms of autism patients), it is not true to say that there are no drugs on the horizon. It is becoming clear that autism is at least partly genetic. In fact this week researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology located 2 genes implicated in autism. There are at least 3 major pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials into autism drugs.

Would you have told the person who bought CancerDrugs.com 7 years ago for $25,000 that it was only worth RegFee? Research into drugs combating cancer were pretty much at a similar stage then as for autism drugs today. And now there is a plethora of cancer drugs on the market.

Sorry for such a long post, but actually a name like this raises a lot of interesting points about the value of a generic domain that merely 'has potential'.

[Acquisition]

Reg fee. To compare Cancerdrugs to autismdrugs is just myopic thinking on your part, at best.

Autism is way WAY too pigeonholed to have the attached "drugs" name be worth anything to write home to mom about. To compare autism to the #1 disease killer in the world in cancer is absolutely ridiculous..

I mean, people can search for AutismCures, AutismCure, AutismRemedy, AutismRemedies, CureAutism, StopAutism, EndAutism, etc etc etc etc... There are just so many possibilities for any potential enduser in this tiny market to get a domain for reg fee (or very slightly above reg fee)..

Not to mention, a very good medical one word name, without "drugs", just sold last week for only $5k (Amnesia.com).

Sorry, but this name is not worth much, if anything.

[jasdon11]

I appreciate your honesty, but your claim that it is only worth the Reg fee only relates to the amount that you would be willing to pay for it, which has no bearing whatsoever on the value of the domain

I can only give you a value from my perspective - not trying to second-guess someone elses, that's why I included 'IMO'. If I valued your name at $10k, it would be because that's what I'd be willing to pay for it.
I know that others may value and pay more than me, but I'm giving you my appraisal, not someone elses.

In fact, the domain is obviously worth more than reg fee. I could e-mail the guy selling 'AutismDrug.com' for $1,300 and I'm sure I'd get an offer from him for more than $9.

If the guy selling the .net was asking $20k, would that mean the .com was worth more?

I was diagnosed as being autistic as a child and have always kept up to date on current research into medication and treatments. Whilst it is true that there are no 'autism drugs' at present (drugs designed for other disorders are increasingly used to manage some symptoms of autism patients), it is not true to say that there are no drugs on the horizon. It is becoming clear that autism is at least partly genetic. In fact this week researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology located 2 genes implicated in autism. There are at least 3 major pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials into autism drugs.

If you were diagnosed with having autism as a child, can you tell me what you're current position is please, as it's not something that 'goes away'. This is a genuine question - I have a son who has a diagnosis of autism (many people find it difficult to pin the medical profession down to a diagnosis...bad for their figures). My wife runs a registered charity which helps children with autism, and is also a governor at our sons specialist school.

Would you have told the person who bought CancerDrugs.com 7 years ago for $25,000 that it was only worth RegFee? Research into drugs combating cancer were pretty much at a similar stage then as for autism drugs today. And now there is a plethora of cancer drugs on the market.

CancerDrugs.com is a different example altogether - drugs have been used to treat cancer for decades now....$25,000 was a good buy IMO.

Sorry for such a long post, but actually a name like this raises a lot of interesting points about the value of a generic domain that merely 'has potential'.

No worries, and please don't take my replies as being hostile in any way.

Not to mention, a very good medical one word name, without "drugs", just sold last week for only $5k (Amnesia.com).

Must've forgotten about that one....

[cordoba]

Autism doesn't 'go away', but back then most doctors weren't so knowledgeable about aspergers syndrome and higher functioning autism related disorders. In fact my (informal) diagnosis was more or less forgotten as soon as I started speaking and doing well at school.

I'm assuming that autismdrugs.com would be more valuable than the singular, I could be wrong. Wasn't it drugs.com and not drug.com that was sold for $850,000? I think most people would (as they do now) search for autism drugs rather than autism drug, so I don't think the analogy with the TLD is valid.

It would be interesting to know why the guy let the domain drop and I might e-mail him out of curiosity. It appears he had over 1,000 domain names in his possession so he was obviously in the buisness and I guess he wouldn't get careless and let it drop unknowingly. Still, I think dropping AustimDrugs.com in the same week that the MIT announces a major breakthrough and that autism drugs are on the way, might be a reason for him to kick himself.

By the way, the first drug for combating cancer was only introduced in 2004 (avastin). Up until then drugs had been used, for example, to manage the side-effects of radiation therapy, but avastin was the first to actually target cancerous cells. So the situation was certainly comparable to autism today.

[Varlin]

Autism doesn't 'go away', but back then most doctors weren't so knowledgeable about aspergers syndrome and higher functioning autism related disorders. In fact my (informal) diagnosis was more or less forgotten as soon as I started speaking and doing well at school.

I'm assuming that autismdrugs.com would be more valuable than the singular, I could be wrong. Wasn't it drugs.com and not drug.com that was sold for $850,000? I think most people would (as they do now) search for autism drugs rather than autism drug, so I don't think the analogy with the TLD is valid.

It would be interesting to know why the guy let the domain drop and I might e-mail him out of curiosity. It appears he had over 1,000 domain names in his possession so he was obviously in the buisness and I guess he wouldn't get careless and let it drop unknowingly. Still, I think dropping AustimDrugs.com in the same week that the MIT announces a major breakthrough and that autism drugs are on the way, might be a reason for him to kick himself.

By the way, the first drug for combating cancer was only introduced in 2004 (avastin). Up until then drugs had been used, for example, to manage the side-effects of radiation therapy, but avastin was the first to actually target cancerous cells. So the situation was certainly comparable to autism today.

Positive:

- Plural DEFINITELY sounds better than singular.
- I do see potential, and I am MD, pharmacologist and owner of autismo.org (soon to be developed)
- Even if there is no specific drug to treat autism effective, there is a plethora of drugs that have been suggested to improve it.
- A jackpot if a specific drug is ever released.
- Still a great domain for development, with or without real drugs, IMO.

Negative:

- You insist in validating your own thoughts. Please remember that this forum is to see what others think, not to get unconditional support for our own thoughts.
- I see autism being "treated" with proper nutrition, primary prevention, acoustic nerve re-training, and not with drugs.


Other

- First cancer drug in 2004? Puh-leeze... Methotrexate, which MIGHT NOT be the first one, has been used to treat malignancies since 1956 (and even before, experimentally). Thats ALMOST 50 YEARS BEFORE.
- Having 1000+ domains is NOT an indicator of business experience or authoritative knowledge (it actually might indicate THE OPPOSITE)
- Companies involved in "genetic therapies" and other likely-to-fail treatments might like this domain to pump their crappy stocks during their IPOs and drug development stages.

[cordoba]

Positive:

Negative:

- You insist in validating your own thoughts. Please remember that this forum is to see what others think, not to get unconditional support for our own thoughts.

I apologize. It was the first time I'd spotted an expiring domain I really wanted, so it's hard to take being told that it's only reg fee. Actually, I think everybody has made valid points and I guess we'll just have to come back to this thread in 10 years time to see who was right.

[Gerry]

"I would expect in 5 years or so it should be worth at least low $xx,xxx?"

You can't use this assumption or you will grow broke buying what could be.

On a positive note, Autism has been in the news lately more and more frequently.

However, the concept of AutismDrugs.com is still a niche market.

Most niche markets are small in comparison to large or massive markets like IllegalDrugs or FluVaccine.

It is not a bad name but most will not view this as a gem like you have.

[ksinclair]

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You dont need to post here. Just build a site and start putting content. Good content will get you links, and from that ranking.

Autism Drugs do not have to mean a cure - it can be any drug that or therapy that real people, like parents, are using or discussiing in some way. Some kind of social network might be good, and user involvement gets you many indexable pages in google.

If a child with autism cannot take some traditional drug, for some reason - maybe a pill is too big - what do parents do? Do autistic kids ever have any drugs prescribed - I have no idea - but being autistic does not, by itself, mean you have no other conditions. Or maybe some drugs that make a non-autistic child excitable have some larger effect? Again i have no idea, the point is that a social site where parents can share their experiences might gain some traction; and over time, as knowledge evolves and new therapies develop, you can be one of the main sites; with good page rank and growing traffic.

That is of course, if you stick with it. Or you can do the usual boring domainer-Minisite and let it languish as you turn to other projects.

(If you have a vibrant site, and get other parents involved like as moderators, then it can have more growth).

Kevin