closed www.lanw.com PR7, 11year old domain

[ChrissyBoi]

Hi,

I recently acquired the domain www.lanw.com and was wondering what kind of valuation I could put on the domain.
The free leapfish appraiser has it at almost $80,000 , but I'm not sure how reliable or accurate that is!

The domain is the former home of some well known IT writers, namely Ed Tittel (of HTML4 for Dummies series), Dr Bill Brogden (Java Guru) and James Michael Stewart (another dummies series writer).

It has a google PR of 7, and many quality backlinks. Traffic unknown at this time as I only just got it over to my own server and registrar.

Any feedback etc., welcomed.

 

[packeted]

Difficult to say, since it's a defunct company's website I'd say a bit depends on traffic. It's not a generic although it could potentially stand for LAN Wsomething.com. The age is nice, in fact I don't own any domains as old as that...although technically age shouldn't have much of a bearing on price.. I'd say reseller $100+.

 

[ChrissyBoi]

I'd say reseller $100+.

$100 ?

LOL. Don't give up your day job.



I paid a heck of a lot more than your *$100* valuation for it!

The company is not so much *defunct* as was bought over by a larger corporation, but the books the people wrote still sell today, and the HTML4 for dummies was an amazon bestseller. The name is still well known.

as for the *generic* the previous owners were *network oriented* writers (hence the LAN W - LOCAL AREA NETWORK WRITERS !), os it has an appeal.

 

[packeted]

Well sorry to disappoint, see what the others say I may be off. What I see is a domain that used to be home to a small website, albeit owned by some significant people, however:

"On October 1, 2004, LANWrights' parent company, iLearning, Inc., was acquired by the Thomson Corporation. As a result, the former LANWrights staff is now the Thomson NETg Content Services Division and is consolidating its resources with theirs."

It may still see some traffic, but the value that those people added as "LAN Wrights" has almost gone. Now what I see is a domain that has some value as a LLLL.com with extra potential depending on the traffic it still receives. Good luck with your development.

 

[steven22]

I think it is best a typo for lawn.com personally

 

[copper]

PR7 alone would be worth more than $100

With tons of real top quality backlinks from sites such as php.net and ibm.com...

However, you really want to hurry putting contents on the site.
If you don't, you'll lose your PR on next update.

Best solution?
Get all previous contents from the site if you can even if you have to pay hefty $ for it.

Very nice pick up

 

[ChrissyBoi]

I purchased the domain from one of those *significant people*, and they haven't ruled out helping in the future if I develop the site (which I intend doing).

I'm only a 20 yr old computer science student so i can still develop the domain along the same lines as before, and I already asked for permission to keep some of the original site material on as they had a lot of good stuff on their *small* (??, lol) site.

As a PR 7 I could sell backlinks for $100 a piece! I could get $100 a clip as a cloud site! In the last few days alone, it has had over 2000 unique hits, and I've made $10 in adsense revenue!

An even less interesting 5 character PR 7 went for $9000 recently,
http://www.namepros.com/expired-domains/277800-google-pr7-deleting.html

PR7 alone would be worth more than $100

With tons of real top quality backlinks from sites such as php.net and ibm.com...

However, you really want to hurry putting contents on the site.
If you don't, you'll lose your PR on next update.

Best solution?
Get all previous contents from the site if you can even if you have to pay hefty $ for it.

Very nice pick up

Thanx copper. Some good points at last!

I'm grabbing the old content from archive.org, and one of the previous owners has given me all his blessing on doing whatever I can with it. He didn't have any tarball saves of it, but told me to go to archive.org and grab the stuff from there himself! The previous owners have just moved on to other things and had no more time or use for the domain. The material was all snapped up by LeapIt (who have also since gone!) and their stuff was grabbed by Thomson Corporation, and all Thomson wanted was the Exam material that Lanw had done, so nothing on the website was of any use or interest to them. Some of the previous site writers are with thomson, but nothing from the old site confilcts with anything they are doing as it is all new and different material.

The quality backlinks it has are indeed awesome. The PR was dropping at some google centers (only because it had been down for ages), and the Alexa was 1.7million. the work I have done on it behind the scenes in the last week or so has changed it all. the PR7 has gone back up on all the datacenters, the future pr is still 7, and I plan on adding to the quality backlinks,a nd the Alexa has halved in that time. As a computer science student I can get plenty of good quality backlinks added to what is there.

I thought it was a great pickup myself, as I stole it from under the noses of the big buck hounds (and there WAS plenty of them waiting in the background for it to drop).

the PR wouldn't drop as quickly as the next update, as the site has been down for ages, and for 2 years it had practically nothing on it, yet it has still retained it's PR7 !

 

[packeted]

Ok well I take it back, I appraised the name based on it's intrinsic value not on the PR. If it's gettin that level of hits, it's worth a fair bit more just make sure you capitalise on that because it won't last forever.

 

[ChrissyBoi]

Ok well I take it back, I appraised the name based on it's intrinsic value not on the PR. If it's gettin that level of hits, it's worth a fair bit more just make sure you capitalise on that because it won't last forever.

Thanks packeted. :rockon:

I had a feeling you were going on just the *name* itself, in which case you would probably have been about right.

The 11 years old +, and the PR 7 add greatly to the value though.

 

[JRBHosting]

Difficult to say, since it's a defunct company's website I'd say a bit depends on traffic. It's not a generic although it could potentially stand for LAN Wsomething.com. The age is nice, in fact I don't own any domains as old as that...although technically age shouldn't have much of a bearing on price.. I'd say reseller $100+.

Missing a 0?

 

[netfounder]

3 years traffic rev

 

[Theo]

PR7 alone would be worth more than $100

Try mid 4-figures for a valid PR7 site.

 

[GUA]

I'd say $1k max. Without the original content the pr will drop rapidly, so will the backlinks and visits, and then youll just have another 4 letter .com.
Use the pr/backlinks an redevelop it quickly and well, and youll have a different story.
GoodLuck

 

[Seraphim]

I concur, at least x,xxx for an established PR7 website.

 

[syed]

http://web.archive.org/web/20030324044414/http://www.lanw.com/

It was a site before. PR is great but will not stay that high for long.

 

[domainah]

The domain just as a name not more than $100 reseller, and it doesnt matter what you paid for it, thats irrelevant. I think you have to respect other people's opinion here. If the domain has a good PR and traffic its worth 3-4 years whatever traffic and revenue you are getting. And if you really paid a lot of money I think you got the bad end of the deal

 

[ChrissyBoi]

The domain just as a name not more than $100 reseller, and it doesnt matter what you paid for it, thats irrelevant. I think you have to respect other people's opinion here.

I don't think anyone was disrespecting anyone else. If you're refering to my comments about the *don't give up your day job*, that was more of a text-chuckle than an insult.

It's clear that other people do recognise that there is a decent value attached to an old established domain with a high PR. I certainly thought so and I don't think I was robbed in any way.