very few of you deal with end users, I do all day long, in many industries, businesses do not look for 'links' per se, so the name has very little value to anyone really in the industry of seo/sem/web-development
the last thing on the list of what a business looks for is 'links' and in the overall seo game, so called 'links' have little impact on page one
while some here may know to some degree 'domains', that's one of seven major things we do for a business in putting them on page one of the big sites, google, yahoo, youtube
you know what's the number one thing to hit page one for a business? a keyword, there's root keywords and geokeywords, that's the number one thing a business needs to acquire to dominate page one, links is the last thing
anyway, the end users who would want to acquire 'links' as a keyword, all know it has little value, and there are other major keywords more important in the overall web development game that potential clients look for
anyway, someone selling 'links' to help clients achieve serp position knows they can get pageone with almost no links, other things are more important, so overall, 'links' is relative only to a player in seo/sem/development
why?
it's one of the keywords you may buy to find businesses looking for what we do, that is put businesses on page one
so, as someone who actually gets paid thousands of dollars from business owners to dominate pageone for them, I know how business owners 'think' in regards to how they look for companies that would be interested in the name, I know how my clients find me, and it isn't off of searches for 'links'
as to 'reciprocal links', there's no money in such an industry, all the money is in selling links to end users from content sites that are relative to their industry with some PR so they get a minor bump at google
you think a company giving links away for 'free' has money to buy links.com
they don't
so you're looking at this domain name as having value to someone involved in the seo/sem/development game
people who really put sites ON PAGE ONE know, links have very little to do with it, in other words throw out all the seo books you read, they're wrong
now, the main thing to control page one is the keyword, look who is buying links at google
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source...&q=links&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=3aa7f458acaa2672
that serp has NOT ONE BUYER of links
what does that mean? the name is nothing to people who pay a lot for terms like SEO and SEM etc
you know what SEO sells for? hahaha a lot, 20 bucks some times per click
so the guys that can sell a business 'links' as in 'paid links' not 'reciprocal links' think so little of the word 'links' that none of us buy it
now this thread isn't supposed to be a platform for me to educate you all, it's an appraisal thread, I'm one of the few people that gave a legit appraisal and then some had to comment on my appraisal, now I've explained it enough, it's a 'nice keyword' but it has little value in the big picture to guys that actually make money from the net by developing sites for clients that want PAGE ONE, and that is why someone would want to buy links.com to use it in the seo/sem/development game, and we all know business owners don't look for 'links' when they're thinking about page one development or seo/sem/pageone etc
anyway, it's all 'opinions' and if you put in a real appraisal value, then I guess your opinion is based on something, I gave my appraisal and now I explained numerous times why the name is not a mega keyword, I'm one of the companies that could use it, and it's nothing I'd invest any major money into
now, a links exchange could use it, but they have no business model to make money
so the real 'industry' links exchanges is a nothing industry that can't produce revenues so they will never raise major money to buy that name, so that means only players in seo/sem/development may take a shot at it, since you make money in seo/sem/development
but the companies that actually buy keywords for that industry know, end users with checks for seo/sem/development don't look for 'links' so none of us buy links usually