E.biz at $66,000 already

[think]

Thank you, guys, for your encouraging words on the buy...



The link's getting a 'server not Found' message for me, biggedon.

If its yours, any chance you could fix it, please? I'd love to see it...

.

He was just describing a cool hack for your domain

Congrats from me as well!

[tas38]

Yes Congrats on the buy, being a 1 letter dot anything should pay off with time. E.biz is a sweet domain no matter how you look at it, but a little shocking to see such high prices in this domain market.

[biggedon]

Thank you, guys, for your encouraging words on the buy...



The link's getting a 'Server not Found' message for me, biggedon.

If its yours, any chance you could fix it, please? I'd love to see it...

.

if you set your nameservers to whatever ppc you are using...any subdomain that you type in your browser will resolve.

it won't show a different parking page than m.biz, but it will resolve

or you can set-up a multitude of subdomains in a Hosting account.

[Gerry]

or you can set-up a multitude of subdomains in a Hosting account.

That is something I need to work on and become proficient at.

[Bender]

That is something I need to work on and become proficient at.

"wildcard DNS" is the answer for that.
If anyone wants to develop their new, shiny, 1-char .biz domain names, I'm available

[loudbeats.com]

"wildcard DNS" is the answer for that.
If anyone wants to develop their new, shiny, 1-char .biz domain names, I'm available

LOL.biz

[DTalk]

He was just describing a cool hack for your domain

Ahhh....duh, me...!!....

if you set your nameservers to whatever ppc you are using...any subdomain that you type in your browser will resolve.

it won't show a different parking page than m.biz, but it will resolve

I didn't know that....And, indeed, it does...For any parked domain, that's actually quite cool.

or you can set-up a multitude of subdomains in a Hosting account.

Yes, I did know that...When I get control of this domain - as you say, (literally) unlimted opportunities.

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[Gerry]

Ahhh....duh, me...!!....



I didn't know that....And, indeed, it does...For any parked domain, that's actually quite cool.



Yes, I did know that...When I get control of this domain - as you say (literally) unlimted opportunities.

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Ya got some sweet looking names in your siggy, mate,

[kevmacmeh]

Yes Congrats on the buy, being a 1 letter dot anything should pay off with time. E.biz is a sweet domain no matter how you look at it, but a little shocking to see such high prices in this domain market.

One letters are hot property.

I wasnt suprised to see these .biz's selling well.

Great investment guys

[katherine]

Great investment ? Unless you're an end user I am not so enthusiastic about it.

[tas38]

If it's great for a end user, then it's great for a end user seller as well no ???

[katherine]

I'm not sure they are easy to flip for a profit as they did not sell for cheap IMO.

[Bodis.com]

For $66k, you can get some really good domains right on this forum that combined can easily get you much bigger ROI than e.BIZ.

[GUA]

My favorite part of this ridiculous waste of money is the fact that the new owner of G.biz is expecting to instantly flip it for $15k. Am I missing something, or am I correct to say that if we had a load of money to waste on crap domains we would have bid in the original auction?

[PRED]

.biz is cheesy, therefore best buy was prob, x.biz ,if there was one.
easy to remember adult name

[loudbeats.com]

.biz is cheesy, therefore best buy was prob, x.biz ,if there was one.
easy to remember adult name

X it is then

[DNCredit.com]

Great stuff, DTalk. You've obviously thought through your decision.

I remember a podcast that Monte did with Marc Ostrofsky (who has a large holding of generic .biz domains) where he makes the point that it takes one or two large corporations to start building a brand around .biz before an eventual tipping point is reached.

[Disclosure: DNCredit.com has provided funding to a few .biz domains and I hold some personally]

Jon

Okay...I'll 'fess up to buying M.biz...


Actually, initially, I wasn't going to bid on these.....But, I changed my mind....Here's my thinking re buying it for 15k:


I agree, of course, single-letter .biz has NO prospects for parking revenue...Nor, likely to have much prospect in terms of domainer reseller profit value (tho, who knows, eventually?) etc etc...ie the easier avenues for a ROI...

So, to leverage them, they HAVE to be branded. Not everyone's cup of tea......But, imo, some (eg e.biz) - but, not all - of these single letter domains offer huge opportunity.


For me, M.biz, was one that has good possibilities...:


* Its a gTLD


* 5 MILLION exact Google Keyword Search Tool results for the term, "M", per month....So, people search for the term, in huge numbers


* Over 3 BILLION Google returns for the term, "M"....So, possible end user sale.


* The term could represent any number of vast lucrative markets:

- Mobile
- Money
- Music
- Movies
- Marketing
- Management/Managers
- Marriage
- Motorsport

etc etc

Google doesn't care what the extension is, if you develop a domain...And, in this case, the 'biz' potentially works for it, imo....If one is considering a brandable, then M.biz is as good an opportunity as any, imo.


I guess, in the end, I reckoned it was worth paying 15k for this opportunity - rather than what, say, $15k might buy me in .com, or any other gTLD.



Here's an example of an outfit, for example, that brands itself as 'M.Net' (for 'Mobile) - and, is on the front page of Google, in Australia - tho, its url is 'mnetcorporation':

Home | m.Net Corporation.com


I know not everyone agrees this is a good investment....But, I'll see if I can make something of the opportunity it affords...


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[loudbeats.com]

Thanks DnCredit for the info

[Bionic]

e.biz rocks! Hopefully it will be huge and m.biz will be good too. Don't see any hope for .biz in general though, bit of a slang term.

[tas38]

Well time will tell I guess, one thing for sure we are in a hard market. There some great names out there going pretty cheap, I was a little shocked to see e.biz going so high.