closed Haay.com

[arster]

Hey everyone, a bit new to this particular forum.

Wonder what your thoughts are on what Haay.com might be worth? I picked it up some weeks ago.

Thanks and happy 2008 coming up.

 

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EDIT

Looks like my valuation way too off..
Deleting it.

 

[bro]

It shouldnt go for less than 2k as owner has already paid over 1k for the name. Good luck with the name.

 

[lordbyroniv]

It shouldnt go for less than 2k as owner has already paid over 1k for the name. Good luck with the name.

What does owner having already paid 1k have to do with your valuation?

By your logic, prices only go up, buyers never over-pay and sellers always will have a buyer

Cant agree with that

 

[Stian]

mid $xxx - lo $x,xxx IMO.

 

[bro]

What does owner having already paid 1k have to do with your valuation?

By your logic, prices only go up, buyers never over-pay and sellers always will have a buyer

Cant agree with that

My valuation is based on raising price of four letter domains and I dont belive current owner was the only bidder in the auction of this nice name. if you cant buy it for what I am appraising it doesnt mean others wont pay.

Prices will always go up for good names and if you dont agree , who cares?

 

[lordbyroniv]

Lets agree to disagree

 

[Andrew Shaw]

I think it has a lot of potential.

Whats important in this matter? The fact that you can look at this domain name and it will instantly stick in your head.

Id say its got more development potential then resellers potential. Although I personally dont think 2-3k is unreasonable.

Good Luck.

 

[domainah]

not a fan of the double "a".. mid to high $$$

 

[dcristo]

How many ppl would go to HAY.COM or HEY.COM when you say this? Just a thought.

 

[doobee]

This domain reminds me of a cartoon I saw on a menu in our local country restaurant...
It was a picture of a sheep at a bar asking for another drink. Caption read: "I said Haay bartender!"

 

[Theo]

If you paid $1k for it, the seller is laughing all the waay to the bank.

 

[GUA]

low xxx. Bad buy. Sorry

 

[dcristo]

If you paid $1k for it, the seller is laughing all the waay to the bank.

I agree. You removed what you said earlier, but it was funny... do a search for Haay.com on G and you get... Did you mean: Gay.com

 

[Theo]

Amazingly, Google picked up this thread 4 hours ago and it's already on its first page of results for "haay"

 

[Stinos]

high xxx

 

[nitro4]

...

 

[Tim Schoon]

high $xxx.. no way this would go under $400-500 if it dropped on snap..

 

[nitro4]

...

 

[arster]

Hey everyone, thanks for the comments thus far. It's certainly very interesting to hear, even though I possibly disagree with methodology used to valuate (I would, wound't I, I am the owner!)

With that said I do wonder what methodology you are using to base it on. Few things to consider:
1) Purely PPC or the like, definitely the price would be XXX, not more if one is to consider making money of any type in traffic. There is some but very small. I have a hunch that too many domain valuations I've already seen on DNForum are only keeping mostly this metric in mind, and not any other potential. Of course we can agree to disagree.

2) SEO - doesn't apply or none you'd say. Except one thing! To a person starting their own business on their own domain, it should be very important to make sure their name doesn't bring up tons of other confusing results when searched for. In this respect Haay.com is a search virgin, a clean slate. Anything you do, the engine will find you right away. If your brand becomes known enough, you could have search engines recommending haay.com when people type in "hey".

For example I operate di.fm, and someone else operates dj.fm. At least for me if you type "dj fm" into google it asks if I meant di.fm (poor chaps). Or if I type in "dig" three results later it says "dig you mean digg".

>do a search for Haay.com on G and you get... Did you mean: Gay.com
That must be personalized Google results, as I don't get that here or my other machines. Google thinks you are probably looking for... take away what you want from that


3) Brandability. That's open for debate, it works for one while it doesn't work for another. But it's the major factor going for the name. If there is a service for haay.com (and this name lends nicely to being for anything social IMO), once people know it's haay and not hey, it works.

>How many ppl would go to HAY.COM or HEY.COM when you say this? Just a thought.

True, and same argument goes for dig vs digg, I think it speaks for itself. Had digg not built up a service, one would laugh at "digg" being worth anything. But really there aren't that many 4 letter words which lend themselves to be used in a natural language (and stand the test of international pronounciations too). Digg is one of them, for others we all hold our opinions. Then again, maybe there are too many of such brandable words, 4 letters or 5, and the value really is xxx.

So I guess this just begs the question if I have such an opinion on this why do I even ask. I wanted to hear other thoughts, as well as to see how DNforum regulars think. So thanks for any input.