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Just did a search on SEDO for current auctions:
train.net - $5,000 USD - 3 bids with 5 days remaining
mountainbike.net - $2,650 USD - 4 bids with 5 days remaining
vergleichen.net - 2,100 EURO - 3 bids with 5 days remaining
if Train.net & MountainBike.net can get up to mid $x,xxx... interest.net can get more.
I GUARANTEE you that there are more people out there looking for a good interest rate on their home loan than a train or a mountain bike.
train.net - $5,000 USD - 3 bids with 5 days remaining
mountainbike.net - $2,650 USD - 4 bids with 5 days remaining
vergleichen.net - 2,100 EURO - 3 bids with 5 days remaining
if Train.net & MountainBike.net can get up to mid $x,xxx... interest.net can get more.
I GUARANTEE you that there are more people out there looking for a good interest rate on their home loan than a train or a mountain bike.
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Ahem. I have sold plenty of domains with little traffic, even in .com. And I have never had an end user asking for traffic stats like a domainer would.
End users are looking for solid keyword domains, or domains that they can brand. Built-in traffic is a plus but not a must-have.
As for interest.net: low-$$$$ imo.
End users are looking for solid keyword domains, or domains that they can brand. Built-in traffic is a plus but not a must-have.
As for interest.net: low-$$$$ imo.
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i think x,xxx is fair. look at some of the sales at dnjournal and a lot worse names get sold in the x,xxx range.
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$XXXX is fair pricing in the reseller market.
Your end user price is tricky, you need to set a price most end users may consider paying based on the circumstance. One price for you approaching them and another when or if they ever approach you.
In saying that if an end user approached you for said name I could assume it to be worth $XXXXX to them, slim cchance but a chance. Heck you may even get a reseller to pay $10k+, in fact more likely
GL
Your end user price is tricky, you need to set a price most end users may consider paying based on the circumstance. One price for you approaching them and another when or if they ever approach you.
In saying that if an end user approached you for said name I could assume it to be worth $XXXXX to them, slim cchance but a chance. Heck you may even get a reseller to pay $10k+, in fact more likely
GL
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4X to low 5x without development
with development, it could be very valuable since it is a high cpc root keyword
0.interest
no.interest
bank.interest
loan.interest
high.interest
credit.interest
creditcard.interest
all potential high cpc keywords for development
so find a SEO team to venture with and get it developed, or be prepared to sink 100K+ into seo development to build it out properly
a keyword like this outside the .com is best used to develop and make high cpc revenue
so you have a major investment to make to get it developed properly to hit high cpc terms
or you venture with a proven seo team and share the revenue
frank schilling did same thing, but he can't develop for SEO, he had a way to get type-ins nice revenue
this domain is not a type in, so low value to speculators, but yet, it has great developmental potential and no one will pay you for that
so you develop and pay lots of money to high end seo firms, or you venture with one that will absorb the costs to make it make money
great name, but without development, tough sell
with development, it could be very valuable since it is a high cpc root keyword
0.interest
no.interest
bank.interest
loan.interest
high.interest
credit.interest
creditcard.interest
all potential high cpc keywords for development
so find a SEO team to venture with and get it developed, or be prepared to sink 100K+ into seo development to build it out properly
a keyword like this outside the .com is best used to develop and make high cpc revenue
so you have a major investment to make to get it developed properly to hit high cpc terms
or you venture with a proven seo team and share the revenue
frank schilling did same thing, but he can't develop for SEO, he had a way to get type-ins nice revenue
this domain is not a type in, so low value to speculators, but yet, it has great developmental potential and no one will pay you for that
so you develop and pay lots of money to high end seo firms, or you venture with one that will absorb the costs to make it make money
great name, but without development, tough sell
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Really huge Google results!
interest - About 369,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)
interest loan - About 48,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)
Agree with Adoni, tap traffic with SEO, get a few dozen high PR inbound links with the anchor <a href=http://interest.net>interest</a>
Financial term + Very popular keyword + mortgage leads revenue model = Wait for enduser prices
$xx,xxx+
interest - About 369,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)
interest loan - About 48,000,000 results (0.07 seconds)
Agree with Adoni, tap traffic with SEO, get a few dozen high PR inbound links with the anchor <a href=http://interest.net>interest</a>
Financial term + Very popular keyword + mortgage leads revenue model = Wait for enduser prices
$xx,xxx+
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not sure about xx,xxx for sure a x,xxx domain, just because it is .net
.com would fetch more for sure
.com would fetch more for sure
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Easier said than done, you'd have to out perform interest.com with almost 6K backlinks, PR6 and a 15 year (almost 16) history behind it... You can do it with a serious SEO company that knows it's job from top to bottom, and that will cost...
Domain alone, mid $xxxx for a quick sale to a re-seller.
This name is not a valuable name. The ONLY way it becomes valuable is if you put in a lot of work by building a business around it or doing tons of search engine work with it, and even then there are no guarantees of recouping your investment. I see a lot of high appraisals, yet they all require extensive effort. That does not make for a good domain name.
The name does NOT pump any oil on its own. In other words, it will get essentially ZERO traffic without you investing lots of time and effort into it. People forget to add up these costs when appraising domain names. If you did nothing but park this name for 20 years will would make zero dollars and likely not get an unsolicited email inquiry from someone looking to buy it for you for more than you paid.
It seems like my former appriasal of this name was deleted by the mods. Shame on them. You asked for an appraisal and I gave one. I also gave my reasoning. Maybe we should create a section with just positive appraisals? That way newbies can see no traffic .net names and they might end up buying some names off of older members and paying their bills for them.
Flowers.mobi allegedly sold for 200K a few years ago. A few days ago it sold for 6.5K at the same venue it sold before......at Traffic. In between the first sale and the second sale this week the name created NOTHING. And it will continue to create nothing without someone turning the name into a job. Just like Interest.net. The only thing Flowers.mobi did was attract a lot of dotmobi scammers who ran wild on the forums trying to pump their worthless names. They destroyed some new domainers in the process. But nobody really cares because the old-time domainers need new suckers to sell their no traffic names to all the time. They sell you what they know is pretty much crap......they usually are looking to sell to those with a lot less knowledge.
Interest.net does nothing for me. It is worth whatever someone would pay you cash for, and that is likely a lot more than I would pay, because I really wouldn't even want the name to bog me down. It doesn't do anything for me, and I cannot see how it offers anyone a competitive advantage if they owned it. If you happened to build a site around it you would actually be cursed if you had great success, since you will always be giving away free traffic to the dotcom.
People can have their fantasy pipedreams all they want, but the bottom line is that this name is not strong. It will take lots of work to even think about making it strong, and once you factor in that true cost you are now talking about a business endeavor and not a domain name, and you could build that same business around any other name. The name itself really doesn't bring anything to the party.
As a stand-alone name this name is a clunker. Believe these wild appraisals if you want, but I think you just want your hand held with this name. You want to be reassured that it is really worth something. When the dust settles this name will cost you a lot of your time, and if you try to turn it into a business your costs will costs will quickly escalate, with no guarantee of ever turning a profit.
It is worth whatever the highest real money offer you get for it. If these people appraising the name have offered you money for the name by PM since this thread went up, then you have your answer right there. That is what happens when good names get posted.....people offer to buy it by PM. That is how it works.
It would take an act of God to truly hit a homerun by selling the name. In fact, if everyone appraising this name real high got together and tried to search for an end-user you still wouldn't get a huge sale, and think of all the time wasted. Whomever had this name before knew they had a DUD. That is why they know longer wanted the name. They had every opportunity to see how strong it was, and yet they never received a good offer from anyone to buy it from them. They took what they could get and washed their hands of this name.
The name does NOT pump any oil on its own. In other words, it will get essentially ZERO traffic without you investing lots of time and effort into it. People forget to add up these costs when appraising domain names. If you did nothing but park this name for 20 years will would make zero dollars and likely not get an unsolicited email inquiry from someone looking to buy it for you for more than you paid.
It seems like my former appriasal of this name was deleted by the mods. Shame on them. You asked for an appraisal and I gave one. I also gave my reasoning. Maybe we should create a section with just positive appraisals? That way newbies can see no traffic .net names and they might end up buying some names off of older members and paying their bills for them.
Flowers.mobi allegedly sold for 200K a few years ago. A few days ago it sold for 6.5K at the same venue it sold before......at Traffic. In between the first sale and the second sale this week the name created NOTHING. And it will continue to create nothing without someone turning the name into a job. Just like Interest.net. The only thing Flowers.mobi did was attract a lot of dotmobi scammers who ran wild on the forums trying to pump their worthless names. They destroyed some new domainers in the process. But nobody really cares because the old-time domainers need new suckers to sell their no traffic names to all the time. They sell you what they know is pretty much crap......they usually are looking to sell to those with a lot less knowledge.
Interest.net does nothing for me. It is worth whatever someone would pay you cash for, and that is likely a lot more than I would pay, because I really wouldn't even want the name to bog me down. It doesn't do anything for me, and I cannot see how it offers anyone a competitive advantage if they owned it. If you happened to build a site around it you would actually be cursed if you had great success, since you will always be giving away free traffic to the dotcom.
People can have their fantasy pipedreams all they want, but the bottom line is that this name is not strong. It will take lots of work to even think about making it strong, and once you factor in that true cost you are now talking about a business endeavor and not a domain name, and you could build that same business around any other name. The name itself really doesn't bring anything to the party.
As a stand-alone name this name is a clunker. Believe these wild appraisals if you want, but I think you just want your hand held with this name. You want to be reassured that it is really worth something. When the dust settles this name will cost you a lot of your time, and if you try to turn it into a business your costs will costs will quickly escalate, with no guarantee of ever turning a profit.
It is worth whatever the highest real money offer you get for it. If these people appraising the name have offered you money for the name by PM since this thread went up, then you have your answer right there. That is what happens when good names get posted.....people offer to buy it by PM. That is how it works.
It would take an act of God to truly hit a homerun by selling the name. In fact, if everyone appraising this name real high got together and tried to search for an end-user you still wouldn't get a huge sale, and think of all the time wasted. Whomever had this name before knew they had a DUD. That is why they know longer wanted the name. They had every opportunity to see how strong it was, and yet they never received a good offer from anyone to buy it from them. They took what they could get and washed their hands of this name.
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Here at Joe Schmo Federal Bank And Trust, we have great interest rates on our loans! (or: "... we pay great interest rates on your savings accounts and CDs!") See them all at Interest.net.
(That's one type of clear value this name has, without depending on SEO. If the owner finds a bank that "gets" this name's power to help it stand out - and there are a lot of banks in the world - I can easily see it going for high $x,xxx or low $xx,xxx.)
Yet nobody at the thousands upon thousands of banks in the United States has even thought that they might want Interest.net. Your theory has been tested. Hundreds of thousands of bank employees, and not a single one of them thought that they could help their company out by acquiring Interest.net. The Internet is not just a few years old. If this name had any value to those in the banking industry someone would have made an offer. But it never happened. It is a name that could be part of a business, just like any other name could. You guys so casually discount the major flaws in the name.
Major Flaws
1) The name gets zero traffic so it does not attract any potential customers without turning the name into a business.
2) Because it is a .net, even if you spend the time and effort to turn it into a business, you would ALWAYS bleed traffic to the dotcom. The bigger you got the more traffic/customers you would lose.
3) Tens of thousands of people in the banking industry have had the opportunity to buy this name for their company and yet nobody has done so. Go ahead and call them up and email them and try to convince them to put in hundreds of hours trying to drive traffic to their business built arount Interest.net. They will hang up on you. Interest.net doesn't give the potential buyer a competitive advantage....no traffic....no customers.......no sale.
4) A name like HomeLoans.com would bring traffic to whomever bought it. HomeLoans.net is what Interest.net is, but Interest.net is actually worse. It's just is not a strong term.
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Yet nobody at the thousands upon thousands of banks in the United States has even thought that they might want Interest.net. Your theory has been tested. Hundreds of thousands of bank employees, and not a single one of them thought that they could help their company out by acquiring Interest.net. The Internet is not just a few years old. If this name had any value to those in the banking industry someone would have made an offer. But it never happened. It is a name that could be part of a business, just like any other name could. You guys so casually discount the major flaws in the name.
Well with that logic, we should all just give up and stop being in this business. The Internet is not just a few years old but it is still in its infancy in the grand scheme of things
Major Flaws
1) The name gets zero traffic so it does not attract any potential customers without turning the name into a business.
How do you know that it gets zero traffic?
2) Because it is a .net, even if you spend the time and effort to turn it into a business, you would ALWAYS bleed traffic to the dotcom. The bigger you got the more traffic/customers you would lose.
I agree with this, the .com is better but at the same time, it doesn't mean that the .net has no value. Obviously the .com version is worth way more but plenty to work with as well on .net
3) Tens of thousands of people in the banking industry have had the opportunity to buy this name for their company and yet nobody has done so. Go ahead and call them up and email them and try to convince them to put in hundreds of hours trying to drive traffic to their business built arount Interest.net. They will hang up on you. Interest.net doesn't give the potential buyer a competitive advantage....no traffic....no customers.......no sale.
I disagree. Again, just because nobody has used this domain name as a business, it doesn't mean it has no value. With your logic, why are we even in this business at all? After all, the domain names that are valued what they are is based on what an end user would pay for it
Well with that logic, we should all just give up and stop being in this business. The Internet is not just a few years old but it is still in its infancy in the grand scheme of things
Major Flaws
1) The name gets zero traffic so it does not attract any potential customers without turning the name into a business.
How do you know that it gets zero traffic?
2) Because it is a .net, even if you spend the time and effort to turn it into a business, you would ALWAYS bleed traffic to the dotcom. The bigger you got the more traffic/customers you would lose.
I agree with this, the .com is better but at the same time, it doesn't mean that the .net has no value. Obviously the .com version is worth way more but plenty to work with as well on .net
3) Tens of thousands of people in the banking industry have had the opportunity to buy this name for their company and yet nobody has done so. Go ahead and call them up and email them and try to convince them to put in hundreds of hours trying to drive traffic to their business built arount Interest.net. They will hang up on you. Interest.net doesn't give the potential buyer a competitive advantage....no traffic....no customers.......no sale.
I disagree. Again, just because nobody has used this domain name as a business, it doesn't mean it has no value. With your logic, why are we even in this business at all? After all, the domain names that are valued what they are is based on what an end user would pay for it
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Many people don't realize they might want something - or don't know it even exists - until it is presented to them in a persuasive way. Otherwise, there would be no advertising industry.
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Can't be bothered.
Apart from the fact that WhoDatDog was SPOT ON with his appraisals here all I can say is this forum has shown how many millions this domain is worth. Just don't ask any of the appraisers to open their paypal accounts.....
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Dnforumworld - $xxx,xxx
Reality - probably 4 to 6 less figures than that but hey... who needs reality? Appraisals will pay the bills.
Can't be bothered.
Apart from the fact that WhoDatDog was SPOT ON with his appraisals here all I can say is this forum has shown how many millions this domain is worth. Just don't ask any of the appraisers to open their paypal accounts.....
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Dnforumworld - $xxx,xxx
Reality - probably 4 to 6 less figures than that but hey... who needs reality? Appraisals will pay the bills.
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To interest someone in the banking industry, the site should have a very professional look. if a large bank is looking to acquire a domain,
you wont know they are looking - so soliciting for a sale is very hard; you are better off to have a great design and wait for when they come
knocking on your door. If you are not going to dedicate yourself full time to building it out as a real business, then put a great lander and wait.
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