steveatvillas said:
Heck, Rick Schwartz and Gary Kremen have even been in touch.
You poor naive soul, did they offer to buy this from you? Of course not. Did it ever crossed your mind that maybe some of them are using you to promote their own agendas, giving you false hopes, that fake b.s. camaraderie thing prevalent among the chubby, middle-aged greasy snake oil salesmen, wearing the shirts with images of palm trees on them. I bet their suggestions have been to hold out for another nine years because "the market" will mature (eventually). Maybe it will...
but it doesn't mean it is
now...
for you...
yet,
you're selling
now.
Bottom line is,
have you ever asked yourself
what exactly is it that you offer in return for a million dollars
?? Although I personally like the way your site looks, it still is nothing but a glossy web brochure. Furthermore your current "site metrics" will never inspire bidding wars of the kind you hope. Finally, the word "villa" (or "villas") is not that commonly used in the U.S. to say the least. In fact, I don't think it is used at all except around the pretentious Euro wannabes crowd in Napa Valley or Palm Beach, but just because it's perhaps used in their vocabulary it doesn't mean that they can find the use for such a domain, because they make money the old fashioned way. So it seems to me you are better off looking for European buyers, and we all know (including you who spent years with them and around them) that European buyers aren't that stupid, pardon, generous with their money.
So yes, at the present time your name+site is nowhere near close worth your hoping price. Just because you read that apparently and supposedly some speculative U.S. based bozos shell out big money for some names, it doesn't automatically applies to you.
In fact that is the reason you came around here didn't you? You are hoping to ride coattails on the recent big sales and sneak one pass the bewildered wide-eyed newbies with more money than brains, since for nine years you were impotent even in your well-conected realty world to find the "right buyer" in Europe.