closed Phrases.com - Please appraise

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

I am having trouble deciding on this value as phrases is now the most popular app on facebook and it seems like all apps like farmville go for the app name .com.

Headline:

Phrases passes FarmVille as Facebook's top app.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/24/technology/facebook_phrases_passes_farmville/index.htm

This must make the domain a bit mo0re valuable, no?

Thanks in advance for the appraisals.

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[DN BROKER]

Congrats

54 million Users x $1 = $54 million US
10% value = $5.4 million US

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

Reseller $X,XXX ( High ) to $XX,XXX ( Low )
End user $ Would need to find my crystal ball for that one lol

If there is only one end user I suppose that would be the one who should pay the most.

 

[james2002]

Great news for you and it would definitely increase the value of the domain.

I would have thought may be mid to high xx,xxx range to end users. But for reseller, may be lower.

 

[BostonDomainer]

$35,000 There is only 1 phrases.com

 

[hugegrowth]

it would have good value just for the keyword alone, but does the Phrases app make any money?

Farmville sells in-game virtual stuff (from what I hear) for real money, and they probably take in a lot.

Does the Phrases app make any money? A price for the domain could be based on that. Instead of taking a one time payment, it might be better to take a % of all future sales.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

but does the Phrases app make any money?

Yes, they sell tons of banner ads in the app.

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[ksinclair]

Phrases.com is a great domain, if you developed it. You could have a great site with FB plugins, email subscription, etc and its own social network. You can easily buy a dbase of famous quotes to base it on. Basic access would have to be free but you could offer mugs, tshirts etc with any phrase printed (Cafepress.com).

Anyway, what crosses my mind first is, why would a FB app even need a domain like this? If they are #1 on FB, they dont need anything. FB app success might be something like the situation with domains and top movies - the movie makers dont really care about domains. The movie makes it or not, and its success later in DVD and streaming is not based on a domain. You cant sell a domain to a movie studio for big money, just not going to happen. Is this going to be the case with FB top apps?

Apps peak and then settle down, which is also like movies. However: just as farmville has lost its #1 spot, eventually Phrases will lose its #1 spot on FB. So maybe your best potential customer is the owner of the FB app? Or perhaps you approach Farmville. That is what I would do. Why cant farmville create a Phrases app, add some gaming elements to it. expand their offerings, and thereby compete with the Phrases app. If that was your plan you might get a higher price by doing some initial dev first.

You could also pitch it to dictionary.com and any large dictionary/encyclo publisher. The success of the FB app should be used to your advantage as you pitch it, for sure.

Kevin

 

[Yum]

Good name.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Hard to appraise the added value from popular FB app, but the app will most likely not be the most popular for long, so there is a short window of opportunity here with very high potential, don't miss it

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

so there is a short window of opportunity here with very high potential, don't miss it

That's a good point.

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[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

Phrases.com sold this week for 80k.

http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

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[Skinny]

Congrats Adam. That is a fantastic sale of a solid name.

Skinny

 

[Gerry]

My guess is 80K

 

[grcorp]

My guess is 80K

Mine too. The number's got a bit of a ring to it for some reason...

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

Congrats!

Enduser?

 

[silentg]

Congrats on the sale.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

Enduser?

Yes.

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