great thread overall

Great thread guys :thumbsup

This domain buying shit has to collapse on day, your all buying and selling to each other...

What recent undeveloped domain purchases have been made into successful sites? For instance, have their been other domains like men.com that were purchase a year or two ago that have since become branded?

It's intriguing and scary to think about how fast things could change in the domain arena.

There will always be a demand for premium domains.

You're not paying attention: More and more, we're selling to non-industry people. PPC and scarcity have pushed domain values sky high for reasons that make "sense". :banana

Sure but dirtyjokes.com 100K, you can get 20.000 domains for that price. One hit a day that more than dirtyjokes.com ever going to get... Undeveloped.

It's more or less the branding potential of the domain.

Besides it would suck ass paying 100k per year for 20,000 average domains :winkwink:

You have to appreciate that these things make money, every single day, when they are undeveloped via ppc. Real world real estate isn't like that: you have to have tenants of some kind.

You never know what name you sell will end up as what brand or business. I sold swirve.com some years ago for $2500 or so (I paid reg fee for it so that was some kind of multiple) and I remember not long after I sold it sitting on vacation reading the NYTimes tech section and swrive.com was shown as one of the top 20 trafficked sites at the time.

I could have cried.

On the other hand, sweet payday for that name. :pimp

Google
Amazon
Ebay
Xanga

I'm sure they all where $15.00 a piece.

Obviously you are going to have some exceptions.

Yah they were $15 or so to reg but you are talking about two different animals.

People don't seem to ever get this.

Which I guess is good, because it keeps the rif raff away from type-in names. :1orglaugh

Yeah, but they built their own brands.

These domain names are not successful because of the names. It is the other way around. You know about them because of the developed products they bring to market.

A name like Men.com or Band.com etc will make money day after day with 0 work. This is not the case with the above quoted names.

By you even dropping those names into the thread it shows you do not understand the conversation.

They may have been $15 to reg but how many $$$ were spent getting you to know who they are and to type in their names. Generic Type-in names do that for you with 0 spent on development or advertising.

Very true :thumbsup

Exactly :thumbsup

It's not as excessive as paying some guy $20 million a year to play for your baseball team.

Thats what Im saying, you can brand all you want but if you dont have the content they dont come back. And if you have the content the name doesn;t matter.

That is a whole other convo.

I get so mad thinking about how overpriced and greedy sports has become.

Not really they are buying names too.

And better names draw bigger gate kind of like type-ins :winkwink:

hehe you still don't get it

how much does DomBuyer work every day and how much does WiredGuy? :winkwink: