closed Whois-Search.com

[DotLeader]

Originally posted by Onyx

Let's do the math on a $5 CPM campaign.

Give the site the benefit of the doubt, and it receives 100,000 page views per month. At an astronomical $5 CPM (not really possible. Only hosting/medical/gambling/etc sites command this type of rate).

Now $500 a month give or take.. It will take you 5+ years to get your initial investment back. That is of course if you completely sell out all ad campaigns, and manage to update the site daily to maintain current traffic levels.

Don't forget if you ever plan to get a $5CPM, or an even $2CPM campaign rate. You will have to bypass any third party ad networks and sell advertising inventory directly to domain related businesses. Thus more time. For what? To stop cash flow for close to the next decade?

$5CPM would be easy to get
most vistors are webmasters themselves and webmaster related traffic would be able to get webhosts and many other webmaster targetted sites to advertise. but not all people know where to get the advertisers so maybe it would be too hard for some

although to keep the visitors up the buyer would need to continue with the resources currently available and add more as the industry evolves

maybe 20k is too much, maybe its not..

 

[moxsum]

Well it looks like me, Onyx, and Edwin taught you all a little something eh?

imo this site is worth 1,000. But I, nor can anyone here, make a fair appraisal withought knowing the stats of this site.

Whois-Search: Next time try and be more proffesional, and provide atleast some information on the site your selling.

 

[Restecpa]

this thread is funny.

 

[Whois-Search]

moxsum you are wrong and i've already turned down $6000

I'm only interested in the professional people that email me directly.

Stats will be provided to someone who is seriously interested.

 

[Restecpa]

Whois-Search: May I ask whats the price youre expecting? Or should I say, looking for? Thanks.

 

[Whois-Search]

I am looking for $20,000

 

[Restecpa]

Thanks. Is it domain that you value that high or is there some other factor?

 

[Whois-Search]

Traffic, Domain Name, the Script and Ranking + my time and effort

 

[Domainaholic]

It would be a great loss to see it sold - but $20,000+ would be nice and well worth it to!

 

[moxsum]

Originally posted by Whois-Search
moxsum you are wrong and i've already turned down $6000

I'm only interested in the professional people that email me directly.

Stats will be provided to someone who is seriously interested.

1. Telling me im wrong withought telling me why is kind of stupid, and the fact that you have already turned down 6,000 doesnt meen your site is worth that, there are plenty of stupid people out there.

2. You shouldnt ask for an appraisal for a site withought providing any information about it, also, by not stating the stats openly, you lose interested parties.

Is the script custom made? You can get the same thing or better at hot scripts, can you not? Time and Effort? everyone puts time in effort into a site, and thats normally not one f the guidelines for pricing a site. What determines the value of a site is traffic and income, and from what I can see on your site I bet you really dont make much. Prove me wrong.

 

[BG]

$20k seems like a pretty respectable request, It will be interesting to see if anyone has the balls to buy it as its a great site which has many loyal visitors.

I'm supprised ive not seen a post from " whois-search"
saying " S-O-L-D "

Next time i come back i want it sold, lol

Good luck with the sale Andy, someone will get a nice little site there

well worth $20k

 

[Whois-Search]

moxsum : the thing is the guy that offered $6000 actually owns Hotscripts.com LOL


:laugh:

 

[DotLeader]

LOL

 

[GT Web]

haha! ROFL!

after I saw the link to hotscripts I went and tried to get a good whois script thinking I could easily matvh your success overnight....

surprise...that project lasted above 4 hours :laugh:

 

[mole]

Originally posted by Edwin
From an advertiser's perspective, a site with 1,000 loyal visitors who come back every day (30,000 visitors per month) is worth much, much less than a site with 1,000 new visitors a day.

That's the stickiness paradox - the more sticky a site is (i.e. the better it is at generating return visitors) the more advertisers will be needed to spread the ad load, since once visitors have seen a given advertiser's ads a few times their CTR will plummet like a stone.

That's also, incidentally, why it's so hard (not impossible, just hard) to monetize forum traffic: because it's the same people coming back again and again and again.

Thanks for that thought Edwin. Actually advertisers favor sites with a more loyal user base because the credibility/believability of that site is assumed to be higher. Nonetheless, you are probably right to say that monetization of traffic does differ based on usage circumstances.

 

[clemzonguy]

This domain is almost as overpriced as yogurt.com

 

[moxsum]

really? lol thats pretty crazy if the owner of hot scripts really tried to buy it.

Can you pm me some of the stats of the site? I will not post them or anything, im just curious.

 

[NexSite]

I think some of you have to realize you are not appraising just a domain here, but an established website with traffic. Sometimes our sentimental attachments to our properties fool us into believing that they are worth more than we should really expect to get. The name itself with the hyphen surely hurts it, but the established links and traffic more than make up the difference. I cant see it generating a lot of revenue to the point I would pay more than a couple g's. Somebody with a great biz plan may be able to monetize it much better. So to this person, it is obviously worth 5-6 k.

" imo the people on this forum always go way over board with there appraisals."

I have seen many appraisals go the other way. Goose eggs used to get laid around here quite often.

 

[stuff]

I would say $5k-$10k
But $20k is a little to much!
But thats just my opinion.

 

[deepstar]

To correctly appraise I would need some revenue stats. Traffic does not mean much, you can get 5000 visitors a day to your site but if they dont click or purchase anything then it is worthless.

Saying that, I always see people super impressed with Alexa ratings. You people do realize that the reason domain sites have high alexa rankings is because domain and webmaster people are the only ones with the alexa toolbar downloaded and Alexa only gets figures from the toolbar.

I would much rather have a high google page rank. I did a search for "domain name whois" on google because that is your key term in your title tags and I did not see that site on the first three pages. This is just an example of how un-important an alexa ranking is. I have a site that is ranked 400,000 in alexa that earns $5k+ per month. Saying that, I am ranked very high on google.

Just my two cents, I think it is a very functional and user friendly site but in order to say that it is worth anything over 5k I would need to see something in terms of revenue.

Good Luck!
Eric