For Sale worldevents.com

[rmacdon]

Hi Folks,

I have the following name for sale:

worldevents.com

Here are some stats on the type in traffic from sedo last month:
worldevents.com Events 778 129 16.58% $0.15 $18.92
OVT w/extension score = 36
Price = 10K

Thanks,
Rob

 

[NameGuy]

You are pricing this at 44 years of revenue. Why is this domain so good I would want to spend that much on it?

 

[rmacdon]

Good question - The revenue was from Sedo, which is typically low from my experience. IE: I recently moved one of my domains, sociology.com to another PPC provider and tripled my revenue! Am I high with the price? Possibly, but... after doing some significant domain hunting, I have found most dot coms (with any half decent meaning) in the 10K range now seem to be terrible - If you have better names, let me know as I may consider a purchase. When you think about it, worldevents.com is a very good name with traffic - I am guessing that some minor development with a mini site could be pretty exciting. Who knows.
Thanks,
Rob

 

[jazzpetals]

I think its a great name, the seller never stated it was a revenue sale.

 

[NameGuy]

Ok, so lets take one of my names for example. It makes $1000 per month. Would you think $528,000 is a good price then? If so, let's do a deal.

 

[rmacdon]

Just thought I would throw out another very interesting example. I recently moved a domain, pickledeggs.com (please don't click on the ads if you visit the site) to a PPC template that I bought from DNforum. It quadrupled in revenue, actually quite a bit higher and this is prior to search engine indexing!
-- Rob

 

[NameGuy]

What a domain *might* do somewhere else is irrelevant. What it is doing currently as stated by your sale advertisement is what is of concern and what I am discussing. What I am implying is that I don't think you are basing your price on current trends of domain prices, which by the way is not an uncommon occurrence with lots of forum sellers and why the domains just don't get bought. I am interested in the domain, but based on your stats having to wait 44 years to recoup my investment is illogical and frankly not going to happen. I will be dead by then probably.

 

[rmacdon]

Good question - Is the traffic reliant on search engines, links or a previous website - then no. If the revenue is "pure" type in traffic because of the name and with a PPC provider then (in my opinion) you have an amazing domain and congrats. Can you share the name with us?
Thanks,
Rob

 

[NameGuy]

Just one of many, my friend.

But back to my question, would you buy it for over 1/2 million?

 

[rmacdon]

Nameguy: It is inspirational to know that you are doing amazingly well. If you feel that the name is overpriced then I am very sorry about that.
Regards,
Rob

 

[NavySeals91]

I don't believe this to be in the traffic name section, it is a very nice name and highly brandable eg CNN or World News Tonight. Good luck rmacdon. If it were sold soley on the revenue, you would not get that much, but the name is infact premium thus the price is well justified.

 

[NameGuy]

I am interested. Let me know if the price comes down. If others who have posted feel so strongly that it is a good deal then by all means I think you should buy from a nice guy here, Rob. IOW, put your money where your mouth is. I will look forward to seeing your name in lights at dnjournal and I'm sure Rob would like to treat his wife to an elegant dinner on your behalf. Good luck, Rob.

 

[rmacdon]

Thanks NavySeals, I believe this is the fixed price section unless I got it messed up. I agree, the site needs development of some sort to recognize significant revenue. It has a type in traffic base, so that is a great start. I was thinking that a static site of historical events with adsense would work well.
Rob

 

[Focus]

To me, if I was selling it...the name is easily worth mid $x,xxx to very low $xx,xxx - that is regardless of sedo stats ..I base that on it's generic & intrinsic value and it's such broad and commonly used phrasing..since this seems to be a comments thread...great name very fair price (and I'm sure the seller expects lower offers as well...like we ALL always seem to get)

 

[NameGuy]

My only last comment would be to say that it looks like it is indeed being sold based on revenue since the revenue is posted with the sale advertisement. And how many people actually buy domains these days based on brandability anyway? Other than the inherent natural monetary value in short-letter or 1-word domains, brandability is a long gone metric with domain buyers.

Sorry if I polluted your thread, Rob. It was because of buyer interest nothing else. Good luck, buddy.

 

[rmacdon]

Not a problem - I do like healthy debates, it is all a part of the learning process.
BTW: The sale of worldevents.com will have little impact on my having an elegant dinner with my wife
---Rob