sexy ladies.com going quick for $10 billion!

Your entire portfolio pays for itself meaning, 10 good names pay for all 1,000 or whatever you own? or each individual one pays for itself ?

Do you price them high cause you don't need to sell them ? not sure what you are saying here/

ok ?????

I don't think domain name is as important as marketing. Take, for example, zappos.com. The name in itself means nothing. Yet it is near the top of the internet as far as traffic goes. They sell shoes. Shoes.com, on the other hand, has way less traffic and makes way less money than zappos.com

I think that a short name helps, but only to a very small degree. Not to say that some short, highly used words don't have some value, but a good marketing strategy can make an otherwise useless word into millions:

All of the following are in the top 100 internet sites:

Google
Ebay
Flickr
Orbitz
Xanga
Pogo
Icio

I think if (a few years ago) someone came in here and said "I'll sell you Xanga for $1000" that they would have had any takers.

All of those have the vowels in the right places.
Tough to brand ggtgl.com in peoples minds, but if it was gatal.com or something like that, it "sounds" right to the brain.

Does that make sense?

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Yeah it does. Getting alot harder to find evenones that are not english that match that.

When I first read this thread, and read Zappos, never hearing of this domain before I thought shoes. I am not spanish but I know that Zapotas in spanish is shoe's.. So quite frankly your logic here is a bit flawed... It's not a name it's a brand, But we get the point.. All good companies have a reason for their brand name..

For example StarBucks actually comes from the classic american tale
Moby Dick.

Now think about that a bit, when you go to a bookstore, what is everyone doing... sitting around reading a book drinking coffeee.. You can bet this targetted crowd understood the name Starbucks right off the bat.

I agree that it helps tremendously that the name have "sylables", because we turn them into words. Of course it would be much tougher to market hfwqt.com , but I was just making the point that marketing beats word recognition.

icann should police that shit.

50........... :arcadefre

good thread to shed some insight on appraisals
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/633966-appraise-domains.html

mydomainsareworthmillions.com

I totally agree. What is even worse though is when you agree on a price, say even $500 for a domain, and the guy cancels on you cause of this mentality:

"If he is willing to pay $500 for it, it must be worth more"

Fucking jackasses

Playing Devil's Advocate.. sometimes he's right. You might know something that he doesn't, and it's in his own best interest probably to wait.. and research it a bit.

If he agreed on the price tho, that's different and he should accept it.

true....but as the years go by, domains are worth more and more money :)

I usually take any fair offer I get, I hate to haggle!