closed SystemicLupusErythematosus.info (disease with 2266 ovt)

[Digerati]

What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?

niams.nih.gov: "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the form of the disease that most people are referring to when they say 'lupus.' The word 'systemic' means the disease can affect many parts of the body. The symptoms of SLE may be mild or serious. Although SLE usually first affects people between the ages of 15 and 45 years, it can occur in childhood or later in life as well."

It is also on the Forbes list of Fastest Growing Diseases, with treatment up +97% to 16.8 billion dollars. They say, "Doctors have been learning to help the 15 million lupus sufferers in the U.S. (up 30% since 1996)--but helping costs money."

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus has an overture score of 2266.

Which brings us to the question of how much is this domain worth?

 

[lyndonmaxewell]

Very very hard to type in for most users! same too in searching the term in search engines. It is definitely a name that must be developed for it to serve value, in which the .info helps it as well.

Undeveloped, not possible to be more than mid - $xx.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Absolutely Zero Value. Maybe negative value since it is taking up your time. There are many reasons.

 

[Digerati]

Absolutely Zero Value. Maybe negative value since it is taking up your time. There are many reasons.

Why?

 

[lyndonmaxewell]

Most prob is that if people are looking for info relating to the disease, they would first go to a professional/medical related website and do a search for it. Besides that, people are more than likely to type the typos of the word than the correct word itself.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Why?

Let me first state that one of the first names I ever bought was something like: WatergateDeepthroatWashingtonPost.com. As time went on I realized how bad that name was, but during my first week of buying (that was triggered by the breaking news of the revealing of Mark Felt as Deepthroat), it made sense.

First of all, I am sure that if you told 10,000 people this name, either in person, on the phone, or any other way, that you would be lucky if one person typed it in correctly.

So, you ask, what about search engines? Well, if all you had to do was develop a name then there would be no difference between this name and Lupus.com, or Disease.com.

As a general rule people should be able to type in the name with relative ease. This name is impossible, and even if one person out of 10,000 typed it in correctly, they would likely type in .com instead of .info anyway.

Everyone buys bad names when they are in their first few months in the business....I hope you aren't a veteran. At some point in time, after viewing a few hundred thousand names on message boards, and reading 500 or so articles on various aspects of the domain busines, including studying the results of every published sale you can find (including small sales), a light bulb will usually go off and you will "Get it". When this happens you will make immediate plans to do two things: 1) Get rid of your least favorite names before they expire (a salvage mission), and 2) Find a way to get as much money as possible so you can start buying good (even great) names.

When this happens you will then be able to appraise names at zero value WITH AUTHORITY, and you will even be able to alienate a few people along the way...maybe even attract a warning point or two.

Either way, probably over 90 percent of domain names are of very little value, and certainly over 90 percent of names up for appraisal on this board fall into that category.

Great names need no introduction....they are what they are. When you see the big six-figure sales you NEVER see any traffic or revenue stats listed at DN Journal, either. Traffic is a good thing, though.

The best thing to do is to keep it simple during the first six months to a year, then you will be able to think outside the box after that.

You can also do some research on why type-in traffic is the most valuable. You will soon realize that 3 type-ins per day for a name that makes sense is a pretty good name. If you get a few with over 100 legitimate type-ins then you are now in the game. Then again, some names need no traffic to be worth a million. It all makes sense, eventually.

 

[Duckinla]

Horrible name. I think you registered it and put it up here just to get the Dog lecture. Glutton for punishment. If you want to do something on the cheap, go buy SLE.info and develop it.

 

[Digerati]

Thanks for the lecture. So just cut my losses and let it drop?

P.S. I made this logo

Let me first state that one of the first names I ever bought was something like: WatergateDeepthroatWashingtonPost.com. As time went on I realized how bad that name was, but during my first week of buying (that was triggered by the breaking news of the revealing of Mark Felt as Deepthroat), it made sense.

First of all, I am sure that if you told 10,000 people this name, either in person, on the phone, or any other way, that you would be lucky if one person typed it in correctly.

So, you ask, what about search engines? Well, if all you had to do was develop a name then there would be no difference between this name and Lupus.com, or Disease.com.

As a general rule people should be able to type in the name with relative ease. This name is impossible, and even if one person out of 10,000 typed it in correctly, they would likely type in .com instead of .info anyway.

Everyone buys bad names when they are in their first few months in the business....I hope you aren't a veteran. At some point in time, after viewing a few hundred thousand names on message boards, and reading 500 or so articles on various aspects of the domain busines, including studying the results of every published sale you can find (including small sales), a light bulb will usually go off and you will "Get it". When this happens you will make immediate plans to do two things: 1) Get rid of your least favorite names before they expire (a salvage mission), and 2) Find a way to get as much money as possible so you can start buying good (even great) names.

When this happens you will then be able to appraise names at zero value WITH AUTHORITY, and you will even be able to alienate a few people along the way...maybe even attract a warning point or two.

Either way, probably over 90 percent of domain names are of very little value, and certainly over 90 percent of names up for appraisal on this board fall into that category.

Great names need no introduction....they are what they are. When you see the big six-figure sales you NEVER see any traffic or revenue stats listed at DN Journal, either. Traffic is a good thing, though.

The best thing to do is to keep it simple during the first six months to a year, then you will be able to think outside the box after that.

You can also do some research on why type-in traffic is the most valuable. You will soon realize that 3 type-ins per day for a name that makes sense is a pretty good name. If you get a few with over 100 legitimate type-ins then you are now in the game.

 

[Duckinla]

Keep it. It's a good name now that you add the descriptive logo. I didn't understand the disease before, but now I feel like I do.

 

[dcristo]

Develop the name and you will definately get interest. .info goes well with this type of site.

 

[Digerati]

Keep it. It's a good name now that you add the descriptive logo. I didn't understand the disease before, but now I feel like I do.

lol I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.


How do you think I can get content for the site if I decide to develop it? I found this Lupus forum http://www.thelupussite.com/forum/

 

[WhoDatDog]

lol I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.


How do you think I can get content for the site if I decide to develop it? I found this Lupus forum http://www.thelupussite.com/forum/

I think they are actually serious. I would just drop it and use your talents on better names. The name is way too long and cannot be spelled by normal human beings, so why put any more time into it?

Pull the plug. A name is a name is a name. Development has nothing to do with it. As a name it is worth zero. You seem like you could be a good developer so put that time into developing your better names.

You would be much bette off choosing a name like Lupus99.com or something that people could remember. Good luck.

 

[GT Web]

I think they are actually serious. I would just drop it and use your talents on better names. The name is way too long and cannot be spelled by normal human beings, so why put any more time into it?

Pull the plug. A name is a name is a name. Development has nothing to do with it. As a name it is worth zero. You seem like you could be a good developer so put that time into developing your better names.

You would be much bette off choosing a name like Lupus99.com or something that people could remember. Good luck.

You are partially correct.

Search engines (especially MSN) use the keywords in the domain to help rank sites. Therefore HeartAttack.info would have an advantage over Heart101.com right off the bat. However, I don't know many who would search for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2200 OVT is actually pretty low) at a search engine, so that probably wont help. The name is decent, but I agree with the Dog there isn't much you can do with it. I would probably spend your time developing a different name instead.

 

[dcristo]

so why put any more time into it?

Sometimes the only way you would sell a name is to develop it. Your giving the potential customer a clearer vision of the potential of the site. A thnree word health related .info domain will definately have interested buyers, health ads have good CPC.

 

[LoneDomainer]

i actually agree, i reg'd a few .infos for development into blogs etc

.info's are great providing they are information sites

cant see immediate value but wish you the best of luck

 

[WhoDatDog]

Sometimes the only way you would sell a name is to develop it. Your giving the potential customer a clearer vision of the potential of the site. A thnree word health related .info domain will definately have interested buyers, health ads have good CPC.

Lots of people who have domains spend an inordinate amount of time on their worst names. Pulling the plug and/or deleting is a lot better option and saves a lot of time....time that can be spent on the better names.

People are welcome to develop names like these. I don't care what type of search engine wizard you are, if normal human beings cannot type the name in then I would suggest calling it a day and turning the page.

This is a domain name appraisal, and this name is worth zero. Put it up for auction with no reserve and you will see.

That's my philosophy.

 

[dcristo]

Dog, I respect you opinion, but like alotta posts I see from you, you seem to never take into account the financial situation of the owner. We all dont have portfolios with gems in them waiting to be developed. Some of us have to build ourselves from the bottom up and yes that means developing crappy names to make them more attractive.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Dog, I respect you opinion, but like alotta posts I see from you, you seem to never take into account the financial situation of the owner. We all dont have portfolios with gems in them waiting to be developed. Some of us have to build ourselves from the bottom up and yes that means developing crappy names to make them more attractive.

How is it ever a good idea to develop a crappy name? Can you name one domain name in the world with this many letters that is part of a successful site?

There are plenty of names available for $100 and less...even unregistered names. I didn't buy my first name until June of 2005, either. Last summer I hand-regged 50YearMortgage.com and sold it a few months ago for $5,300.

Other people have better stories than that, so why spend ten seconds on one of the worst domain names ever.

If the only possible way a name has any worth is if it is developed, then it really isn't worth developing. Show me one domain that is this long...and bad....that is a success.

Might as well put a few hundred hours into it and see what happens....not me.

 

[GT Web]

I didn't buy my first name until June of 2005, either.

That's a shock, with the amount you preached to us I thought you had been in this business for at least 10 years. :greenembarrassed:

 

[dcristo]

so why spend ten seconds on one of the worst domain names ever.

Cause it's all about ROI. If you can make a few hundred bucks on your initial investment why wouldn't you? OK you got lucky with one name, but are you hand regging names like that every week of the year?