EMailServers.com Brings $10K At Pool!!

[Digital Address]

Strong number IMHO; brought only $600. at NameWinner!!

 

[seeker]

thats crazy. I use to own a very similar variation *without* the plural a couple of years ago, and tried to sell it for something like $400 and no one bought it.
cant quite remember what it was, along the lines if not exactly emailserver.com

weird...

 

[JuniperPark]

Namewinner bids no longer have meaning; You just put in a number for the after-catch bidding. Only the suckers put in the large bids up front; which they are committed to, only to be outbid 3 days later. Same with Club Drop.

 

[seeker]

I wonder though. Whoever got that domain for $10K at pool. Did they really need the domain or was it some young kid using his dads credit card to say, 'hey daddy! look, I got a $10K domain, we are rich!'???

 

[David G]

thats crazy. I use to own a very similar variation *without* the plural a couple of years ago, and tried to sell it for something like $400 and no one bought it. cant quite remember what it was, along the lines if not exactly emailserver.com weird...

Have seen it happen many times with names the owner can barely give away and then they sell for big prices later on. i.e. certificate.com and trade.com (and many others) which sold for a few thousand $ with light interest, then not too long later for 10 or more times that amount with heavy bidding.

It seems to depend to a large degree on timing and luck and not based too much on the domains real value. The right potential buyers just happening to stumble across the name also helps greatly of course.

P.S. A perfect example of not stumbling across the name is in fact the above 2 great names which I would have likely ended up buying for a couple thousand $ if only I would have known about the offerings before it was too late to make an offer.

 

[DNWizardX9]

wow 10k ...

 

[NameWolf]

This name at this prices once again makes me question the legitimacy of those bidding and auction procedures over at pool...

NW

 

[seeker]

what namewolf???
are u deniying the rights of idiots??????????
You have NO right to deny that.
No sir.
They have a right to exist and spend the amount they do.
thats what capitalism is all about.
some of us have the capital (which actually comes from the latin capita, which means 'head') and some have the ism.
We need them both.
P.S.
still wearing my head

 

[Whois-Search]

nice buy Elequa

 

[BLazeD]

Bugger that

 

[ExpireGuy]

Hmm....the us ext still available on this one. Time to reg and put on my lemming hat! God you can't make up this stuff up...what a business

 

[David G]

Hmm....the us ext still available on this one. Time to reg and put on my lemming hat! God you can't make up this stuff up...what a business

There are some names which do not match the .us ext very well. The US version may be one as Email knows no international borders. The .us ext implies U.S. email only.

Also, non-plural is much more widely used with more than 5 times the results in G vs the plural word. The buyer way overpaid for the name even as a .com, IMO. I would value the name at about 10% or less of the Pool price.

 

[Martin23]

Regged now

 

[elequa]

emailservers.com pays $3.50 on OV
whether i over paid or not i like the name

 

[ExpireGuy]

Regged now

Oh my god what have I done?!? :huh:
Best of luck with it martin23 :approve:

 

[actnow]

emailservers.com pays $3.50 on OV
whether i over paid or not i like the name

Elequa, Whether you over paid is none of our business.

But, what is interesting is what you used as a criteria.

 

[URLCollection]

Great domain name Elequa - I do not think you over paid - You did just fine. Over 8,610,000 references to the keywords - email servers - in Google alone. The potential pull is huge in a very strong industry. Good Job and Best Of Luck - Steve

 

[Business Brands]

emailservers.com pays $3.50 on OV
whether i over paid or not i like the name

Ele, you gotta start buying some names of mine that you like.
Don't be shy, I won't bite you. :laugh:

 

[David G]

Great domain name Elequa - I do not think you over paid - You did just fine. Over 8,610,000 references to the keywords - email servers - in Google alone. The potential pull is huge in a very strong industry. Good Job and Best Of Luck - Steve

We all have different opinions on values because it is so arbitrary and highly subjective.

Emailservers.com is a tough one. With zero returns at OV Suggestion Tool (with the ext) it is difficult to do an appraisal since any typein traffic is so questionable. The name appears to have better potential as a brandable website.

You and the Buyer may be right and perhaps the price was actually a good buy and those who say it was over-priced may be wrong. Who knows for sure!

All I know is the domain evaluation tool I personally own and use indicates that name has low value overall but of course it is not perfect and evaluating its output is also subjective and may be wrong.

 

[URLCollection]

Real Names - Email Servers are an industry upon themseleves. A specfic server setup to handle bulk email programs for corporations, websites and other servers. We own 2 email servers in our racks right now with over 80K email accounts on them. This overture tool thing is OK for link pop domains but a waste of time in the branding industry. We look for gross keyword references in several large search engines when rolling a brand. Overture means nothing to us in this case. We never even run the tool. Overture produces less than 10% of our gross domestic traffic to our sites and parked domains. We run PR on link populated domains and that is it. We were a bidder on EMAILSERVERS.COM and would have been happy to have won that auction. I would put $25K or more on the name to the right end user. Just my thoughts - Steve