closed ss.com

[allied_web]

We'd like to thank you guys for your appraisals of ww.com. The highest offer to buy we saw here was in the 21K range. That's was a bit low since we were making $1000/month from an affiliate program (darkblue.com) from the taffic it got. We just sold it to someone who saw the posting here for 70K. The company wants to develope it so it was probrably worth more to them than it was to most of you guys.

We also have ss.com which we are now interested in selling. The buyer of ww.com wasn't interested in it since he thought it had a negative world war 2 connection. If you are interested, we are making about $1200/month from darkblue.com on this one.

Personnally, I would think ss.com would be more desirable than ww.com. It always seemed like a 'w' was missing from ww.com to me. Also, 's' is a more popular letter than 'w'. Since it was getting about 20% more traffic than ww.com (according to our affiliate checks, we don't actually have stats), I think this should be correct.

Any thoughts?

 

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

Not nterested in buying, but I would agree that "ss.com"
has a negative connotation. I instantly thought of Hitler's SS
regime.

 

[allied_web]

Yeah, the Hitler connection is anoying but maybe someone could brand ss.com with some positive advertising. We thought of the Chevy SS for one.

 

[domainAddict]

Same here. My first thaught were those nazzi suxors

 

[fizz]

Originally posted by allied_web
Any thoughts?

allied_web, congrats on the 70k sale figure for ww.com...very nice! Just curious why you didn't join in the appraisal thread for ww.com? The thread had over 70 posts (and offers to you) and more than 1,000 views, and considering you started the thread it would have been nice to have heard some of your thoughts along the way. JMO.

Re ss.com, I would agree about the negative image these two letters carry 60 years later. It would need a sizeable amount of branding to change people's thinking on these letters. In the following list of acronymns, the most prominent seems to be for Sesame Street, but I doubt whether they'd want to be known as ss. Good luck with the sale of ss.com.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=ss&Find=Find

 

[Dingo]

Originally posted by allied_web

Any thoughts?

Hi allied, you might want to try Holden in Australia.

They produce a car called SS Commodore.

http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/action/modeloverview?modelid=4005

More than happy for a small commission if you sell

 

[dmyre]

Nice title on your page: http://awwg.net/

I wish people would stop ripping my design....

http://dnforum.com/search.php?s=&ac...id=68864&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

[domainAddict]

LOL! Your design? I mean.. Is it trademarked or something? heh.. Its called asci art I believe and Im sure that that "ornament" was used by someone else before you as well. Its not like youve invented it or anything

 

[fizz]

I was impressed with the graphic of surfing a digital wave.

 

[dmyre]

domainAddict,

If you want to be like that, I would like to RESPECTFULLY point out that you are violating the Acceptable Use Policy by using TWO links in your signature:

"Your forum signature may not exceed 4 lines in length, and may contain no more than one link."

 

[domainAddict]

lol@You again Many members have more than one link in their signature, and I wasnt even aware that thats a violation. Im pretty sure it doesnt bother anyone, though, but if moderators mind, I will correct it . You should loosen up a bit.. And dont be mad over everything - thats my job

 

[willing2sell]

The first thing to come to my mind when seeing ss.com was Social Security.

 

[Whois-Search]

PriceLess !

 

[ad-lib]

The first thing to come to my mind when seeing ss.com was Social Security.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[DomainSage]

SS is horrible and can be very offensive.

 

[Validweb]

I'd guess ww.com is worth a lot more than ss.com because of the obvious internet association.

If you are earning $1,000/month from a domain, what value would you put on it to sell it? What formula do you use, and how do you justify it?

best regards

 

[.com.net.org]

I like this name.

 

[Fearless]

Originally posted by fizz


Just curious why you didn't join in the appraisal thread for ww.com? The thread had over 70 posts (and offers to you) and more than 1,000 views, and considering you started the thread it would have been nice to have heard some of your thoughts along the way. JMO.

Deja Vu

 

[fizz]

Originally posted by gregr
Deja Vu

LOL, we're all non-commissioned salesmen.

 

[allied_web]

I didn't join in on the ww.com discussion because I didn't come back until ebay auction was over. I didn't realize people would be making offers here. I thought the site was just here to get an idea of what the name might be worth.

I had the ebay auction reserve price set really high so it wouldn't sell though ebay. (didn't want to pay their commission). Once the auction ended, I came back to see if people though the name was worth more or less than what the high bidder came up with.