closed FamilyHistory.org

[Leading Names]

UK OVT ‘familyhistory.org’ = 40
UK OVT ‘family history’ = 13,100

US OVT ‘familyhistory.org’ = 190 (often goes to just over 300)
US OVT ‘family history’ = 169,778

Averages 83 type ins per day.

Makes around 2 Euros per day from parking @ Sedo 61.61 Eur (75 USD) over the past 32 days).

The term ‘family history’ fits perfectly with .org. Most family history orientated sites use .org or .org.uk over .com or .co.uk.

So what do you think?

Thanks for your time k:
- Rob

P.S. For the record, this domain is not for sale.

 

[namewaiter]

very nice domain, even without all the #'s ... but as a .org maybe $$$ - low/low mid $,$$$

develop it into a ancestory.com type affiliate.

 

[111media]

That is a superb domain name. I would put it on Sedo and ask at least 1k for it as this is a huge subject of interest to people. Also, I think the .org hurts and helps. It is an appropriate subject for .org, but .org doesn't usually pay as well as .net, .info and other non .com TLDs.

Good luck!

 

[Leading Names]

Thanks for all the appraisals so far :wink:

It is an appropriate subject for .org, but .org doesn't usually pay as well as .net, .info and other non .com TLDs.

What makes you think this? .org always seems to convert well for me, better than .com in many cases.

Thanks
- Rob

 

[iBizStart]

I was just going to ask if it was for sile but then saw the last line in your post. Nice name, XXX

 

[Duke]

He's making about $900 a year in PPC from the domain. Selling it for under a $1000 would be pretty silly since the domain pays that much EVERY year without even being developed. That income isn't likely to fade either as family history isn't something that is going to go out of style.

 

[Nova]

Nice name - among the best .org's I've seen. Wouldn't be inclined to sell.

 

[cyphix]

I was just going to ask if it was for sile but then saw the last line in your post. Nice name, XXX

Same here lol

 

[NameTower]

It's worth more than I thought it was when you first bought it

Based on PPC revenues, 5 years sounds about right.

 

[Leading Names]

Thanks for all the appraisals for far, it’s interesting to see what people think of a name such as this. I must say I feel the name is worth much more than what most people have appraised the name at, but then I am somewhat biased. For me, a generic, reliable, traffic name is worth at least three years revenue. Not many investments, if any, including property give such a high ROI.

Thanks
- Rob

 

[flatt]

Awesome name. If you really wanted to sell this one, I would say take your time and just enjoy the PPC income ;-) I don't see traffic dieing off on a name like this either.

.org - no problem.

 

[Deleted member 2020]

The traffic is presumably partly or substantially from the previous site - either direct links that haven't yet been removed, or from people who have bookmarked the old site.

So that level of traffic might not be maintained in the long term.

Here is a snippet from a search on google for "familyhistory.org":

The Mormon Church's familyhistory.org website is claimed as the most visited site on the World Wide Web and there are large numbers of Australian genealogical ...

It is of course a very good .org with great potential, whether or not this level of traffic is maintained.

Good luck.

 

[David G]

....... familyhistory.org website is claimed as the most visited site on the World Wide Web...

This seems very odd. How could that be so if the site only gets 83 type-in's day and I don't see how it could decline that much since owned by the Mormon Church before?

 

[Deleted member 2020]

Good point RealNames.

I just checked the actual document from which this was taken:

http://www.naa.gov.au/Publications/corporate_publications/digitisation.rtf

This document was published in November 2000, so depending on when LDS actually let there domain lapse, there could have been quite a bit of fall off in the traffic.

Also, the document says "is *claimed* to be". Doesn't say who claimed it, and not all claims are 100% accurate (or true) ;-)

 

[fatter]

5k-12k

 

[Leading Names]

Traffic has been rock solid at around 80 per day since purchased it (5-6 months ago), as has revenue. Traffic was rock solid for the previous owner also (Duke), not sure how long Ron owned the name.

I think it's highly unlikely any quantity of traffic comes from links, why?

- Click through is high (around 27%) for the term ‘family history’ if people were looking for church info I would expect the click trough rate to be much lower.
- Traffic has been rock solid at 80 – 83 per day ever since purchased it, 6 or so months ago. If the traffic was coming from links I would expect the amount of daily visitors to drop, at least slightly during this period.
- Familyhistory.org works perfectly with .org and is the type of name I would expect to get type in traffic.

I could be wrong or course :shy: .

- Rob

 

[Duke]

I think people are confusing familyhistory.org with familysearch.org. The latter is the Mormon Church domain that they still own and which continues to receive enormous traffic (over 26,000 in OT with the extension).

 

[DomainShark]

I think it's highly unlikely any quantity of traffic comes from links, why?

Because it's not the sort of name that people would type randomly hoping for a useful website at the end, it hasn't been a developed site for a while so they're not return visitors typing it in, people searching from the address bar would go to the .com site first, it's not SE optimised but on the other hand there are thousands of links to familyhistory.org

You probably get quite a number of typeins by people who've seen the name written in print publications dating back a few years as well -- traffic for this is likely to remain high for a while.

familysearch.org is the current Mormon geneaology database but they also used to use familyhistory.org before letting it drop
(there's even a subdomain lds.familyhistory.org that shows up in Google)

 

[David G]

I think people are confusing familyhistory.org with familysearch.org. The latter is the Mormon Church domain that they still own and which continues to receive enormous traffic (over 26,000 in OT with the extension).

That is likely what is going on.

BTW Duke, wish I would have also known about that name too as I surely would have also purchased it.

P.S. Please PM me any other good ones like that.

 

[Leading Names]

DomainShark,

Because it's not the sort of name that people would type randomly hoping for a useful website at the end, it hasn't been a developed site for a while so they're not return visitors typing it in, people searching from the address bar would go to the .com site first.

>> You’re wrong on this, sure many would type the .com but a large proportion would also type .org as .org is so widely used amongst this genera of website. It’s like if you were looking for a charity, you would most likely go to the .org rather than the .com, the same stands true for family history 'type sites'

You probably get quite a number of typeins by people who've seen the name written in print publications dating back a few years as well -- traffic for this is likely to remain high for a while.

>> Sure, I agree this could explain a few type ins daily, but no way 80 or so per day. Remember, these publications are likely years old.

- Rob