closed mintmotor.com / acetunes.com

[Domain_Logic]

Hello,

I would appreciate your opinion on the following domains if that's okay. I've done a little bit of research into the world of Domains and it is truly fascinating. I believe that I have a fair idea of which domains have potential and the ones that are utter garbage, and man, I've seen some garbage on this forum. These two that I have are pretty decent, obviously don't have any overture or results worth mentioning in Google, however, they do have branding potential. Please let me know what you they they are worth (seperately). Thanks.

mintmotor.com

acetunes.com

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

First of all, I think that when you're new to domaining (or any kind of business) , you shouldn't call other people's domains "garbage", without having any domaining experience of your own (yet). I don't mind, but I'm sure a lot of people don't appreciate that.

I do think AceTunes.com is catchy for a ringtone site, music download site and even a car tuning website. MintMotors.com is also pretty catchy for a company selling/manufacturing motors/used motors etc.

Hard to appraise, but reseller-wise, lo-mid $xx undeveloped for MintMotors. AceTunes.com maybe a bit higher. Good luck!

 

[domainah]

while I agree that there are a lot of garbage domains (although that might sound harsh) on this forum, I think its hard for many people in the beginning to figure out whats valuable and what is not. Things like the size of the industry in which a domain could be used in is for the most part not important, a domain such as supergreatringtone.com is still worth $0. The same is true for people using the term "potential" thats something people say when a domain is not really a good domain but they think its a good domain.

So, your domains: Every domain has a "potential" end user that might (or in this case probably not) come around. Once that happens its all about the negotiation process. But in term of real reseller value I think
mintmotor = $0-$5, can't see any value here, there are many better domains still available with motor(s)
acetunes = low $$ to maybe mid $$ on a good day.
Both domain will only have value now and in the foreseeable future if developed.

 

[Domain_Logic]

Thank you to the both of you for replying. I agree that I should not express my opinion with regard to other people's domain names when I have very little prior experience myself. I should think before I speak (write). No offense intended, I will think about what I say next time.

Thank for the appraisals. I would appreciate some advise on what makes a decent / attractive domain for a reseller. Is it traffic / OVT / Google results? I'm keen to learn more. If this is not the correct thread, please could you direct me.

Thanks

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

Reg fee.

 

[domainah]

it is very hard (almost impossible) to reg something new that was never regged before that has significant value right away. There are just too many players in the game.
What you need to do is pay a little more for good domains that are dropping, maybe at auctions like pool, snapnames, TDNAM, etc.., maybe even here on the forum.
There are different strategies you can go by really. You can either go the route that you took with those names, brandable names for which an end user might come around and then you can get usually get 500+ for those low key names. Making up new "fantasy names" can be lurcative, and there are many dropping everyday as well that sound good, but maybe nobody will ever want them.
The other strategy is buying domains with traffic, best are generic names, those are obviously a lot more expensive, but thats a good strategy if you have a lot of money to spend. If you are looking to invest little I would check expiring names lists, dropping names, maybe backorder a bunch you can see are dropping soon. Also if you are working in a very specialized industry in which you can see new trends and developments before the broad market does thats sometimes a good place to find ideas for new domains too.

 

[sashas]

Although I haven't been in this business long, what I've learned is this: create a 'foundation' of easily resalable names - LLL.com, LLL.nets, quality LLLL.coms
Once you have a solid foundation, say about 2 LLL.coms, then go after the brandables and the generics. To realize the full value of the brandables and the generics, you need to make an end user sale, which obviously takes much more time than selling a LLL.com here at DNF.
Even when going for brandables, go for the ones that have some sense, sound good, are taken in some other extensions, and if you were an end user, you would've used it yourself. A fellow member sold DreamDesign (dot) com. Now that is an example of a killer brandable...

 

[Stinos]

low xx