Domain Name Industry Reality Check! Domain Valuations, Domain Sales & Parking. 20/20

[Sonny Banks]

Could somoene sum it up for me into one sentence ? Too long to read...

LOL
The time I can spend to read this article...I've sold a domain.

Work work work.

 

[actnow]

actnow

i think this is Mike's writing style

as he does it the same way on his site and if he posted a link here in this section, it would get deleted.

it wasn't a problem for me to cypher

OK, I stand corrected.

 

[allroundguy]

Don't tell us that our domains are worth this or that.
There are no Good or Bad domains.
What's crap for one may be gold for someone else.
It is mostly the appraising industry that kills the domain selling industry.
None of the so-called scientific valuation systems is worth anything.
All the suppositions about length, generic, brandability, superiority of .com over other TLD's are paid fiction.

What's a tdnam, see it at tdnam.com
What's an msnbc? see it at msnbc.com
Ever heard about a business called two cows? Visit tucows.com
Long domains = No good?
--> TheDomainNameAfterMarket.com (GoDaddy ..)
--> AsSeenOnTV.com
--> WorldWideTravel.com
Just a few examples.

In one forum people swear upon LL, LLL, and LLLL's.
In other forums they want brandable generic domains.
You can't have the two together.
Apart from that, most so-called domain sales are in fact website sales because of the web content and/or revenue.
The importance of back links etc. is overestimated.
The importance of traffic is overestimated.
The important of clicks is overestimated.

Any traffic, visit, click, that does not lead to a sale within the period that an affiliate link is valid, is absolutely waste of bandwidth.

Briefly, domain value estimation can't be scientific because it's based upon opinions.
Rest assured: The day some legal price regulation is introduced, it is over for all of us.

Imho people must choose for either a domain that they like (brand, description, logo, slogan, vanity) or a website with content that they like (product, service, hobby, profession, etc.).
Both together is very unusual.

Price?
Negotiate!

I am sure some people here would appraise these domains, sold on Sedo, as crappy because of "not short" - "wrong TLD" - "not English" etc. etc. appraiser's BS

Playtube.com-20,500 USD
Gametheory.com-7,000 USD
Supporters.nl-5,500 EUR
Descargarjuegos.com ("download games" in Spanish)-4,200 EUR
Slotsville.com-3,250 USD
Sport.cc-3,000 USD
Gameschools.com-2,000 EUR
Ogames.es-6,000 EUR
Sport.cc-3,000 EUR
Europacasino.nl-2,500 EUR
Craps.se-2,300 EUR
Ultimatefighting.de-1,850 EUR
Maquinastragaperras.mobi ("slot machines" in Spanish)-1,000 USD
Maquinasragamonedas.mobi ("slots" in Spanish)- 1,000 USD
Macgames.org- 900 USD

The domain industry is not dead nor dying.
People should awake and have a full private server account instead of shared.
We don't need more resellers.
We need end users.
If they want our product, they will pay what we ask.
Not what some third party thinks they should pay.
Appraisals ares okay, IF appraisers mention in the first line that it is just an opinion AND IF they detail the whole analysis.

Imho, please stop talking about good and bad domains in general.
It's not good for our industry.