Business Plan Forest.com
The concept for the development of Forest.com is very simple. Undeveloped the domain Forest.com has an estimated value of over 250.000 USD (
http://www.swiftappraisal.com/). By developing the domain with one of the most beautiful and state of the art websites for forest lovers, forest scientists and forestry companies the domain will become a lot more valuable. By leaving the domain as is, without developing a website on the domain the domain will also become more valuable. So it is a very secure investment.
The 50.000 euro that you will invest in the domain for 50% ownership of the domain will be mostly invested in the domain as I am 100% devoted to build one of the most advanced and successful websites on the domain Forest.com, which is the reason that I?ve bought the domain.
Some services that I have currently in mind, are a professional (forest) Nature Mapping System that enables both Scientists from around the world and nature lovers/children/schools to participate in a global forest nature mapping program, to share images, videos, information, stories/observations via an easy to use yet very advanced (well working) Nature Mapping System. Other services that I have in mind are a forestry business platform, where forestry businesses are able to present themselves and do business and a professional forest/forestry forum.
Everything will be of such high quality, that the website will be talked about on the internet a lot. The design will be provided by one of the best designers in the world.
From internet business ethics view, the website will have few to no sponsors/banners in the beginning as I have learned it is much easier to get a website loved by all users when its intention is not to make money.
For our purpose, the most important will be that the domain will be loved and visited by the most users so that it will become of the greatest value to interested buyers in the future.
By maintaining the domain for 10+ years, the domain may become worth millions as forestry companies in the 950+ billion dollar forestry market worldwide who are currently not very active on the internet may become more active on the internet in the future as the current leaders are replaced by new leaders that have grown up in the internet age. However, it is also possible to sell the website for a smaller amount, like 400.000+ euro within 1-2 years.
More information about domain prices can be found on
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domains...harts-2006.htm
The domain Forest.com is currently owned by my partner Pedro Murillo (
www.pmurillo.com) in Spain, who has partially financed the domain for me. Once I?ve paid him an agreed amount, the domain will be transferred onto my name.
Technical information
The website will make use of the very latest internet technology existing today. Some of the technology has been invented by me, and all technology used to obtain high rankings or traffic from Search Engines like Google will be White hat (legal) and based on getting Google to truly love the website and content.
The design of the website will be made by one of the best designers in the world using CSS technology. For example CSS design websites, please visit
http://www.cssbeauty.com/gallery/
The services that will be developed for the domain Forest.com will make use of the latest PHP technology and features, like for example the Upload Progress Meter extension for PHP 5.2 which enables to show the upload progress of videos or images using Javascript AJAX technology. This technology is very exclusive, as it?s not yet known that it exists by most developers.
Other highly advanced technology that will be used, are SEO technologies that will make sure that Google is able to determine the relevancy of a particular page on the website in the most optimum way and that will make Google love the pages in such way that they will remain ranked high for indefinite time.
The SEO technology will also provide the website with a high Google PageRank? value which will be a key factor in the pricing when the domain will be sold. The current PR value is 4 which is not bad, but not very high. The target PR value is at least 7 or 8 out of 10.
For more information on the Google PageRank? technology, please visit
http://www.google.com/technology/