closed BuyGreenFood.com

[deceneu]

Appraise, please

 

[WhoDatDog]

To me it is worth zero. I know what you are trying to do, and that is come up with a name that makes sense. After all, people buy food, and the green movement has been going on for many years, so you would think that BuyGreenFood.com would have to be worth something, right?

My answer is that the name is worth zero. You just registered it yesterday, so for 15-20 years 6 billion people had the chance to think this was valuable and register it, but everyone passed. Since the green movement has been alive and well for quite a long time, and nobody has decided to register this name, then that should tell you something right there.

If you are going to register names like this it should be in an area where you have stronger expertise than others, or in an area where you are privy to breaking technological terms before others, or some kind of movement. The key is that you need to be ahead of the curve and have some type of advantage the moment you are registering the name.....some type of insight that others do not have. There are certainly many names unregistered right now that are worth money, and many that are worth a lot of money, but this is not one of them.

It cannot be, and it shouldn't be, that at this point in the domain game someone can register this name and have it be worth anything. Oh, if life were that easy then nobody would wash dishes at restaurants for a living. You have to step up and bring something to the table that separates you from everyone else. Some type of insight, knowledge, or experience is needed to buy anything in this world and hope to sell it for more.

Dig a little deeper and I bet you will come up with better than this, if you feel the urge to come up with fresh registrations.

 

[Melly]

$0

 

[deceneu]

whodatdog thanks for your honest comment, but, in that moment of my life, I don`t agree with you
Other opinions?

 

[ksinclair]

i sold a recent handreg for a very nice price. It can be done, but only in emerging markets.
Why would it be impossible? The world is changing all the time.

Having said that, its very unlikely a hand reg would be worth $xx,xxx or higher unless its branded and built out.

The better domain for your idea would be GreenFood.com. You ought to build it out some and blog about organic food,
nitrogen-free fertilizers, and so on.

With appraisals, like a lot of things in life, you can throw out the lowest and the highest and find the truth somewhere in the middle.

Kevin

 

[WhoDatDog]

whodatdog thanks for your honest comment, but, in that moment of my life, I don`t agree with you
Other opinions?

That is fine, but I don't undertand what type of insight you brought to to the table when you registered this name. Maybe 5-6 years ago you could have registered BuyGreen.com or something similar if you thought that the Green Movement was picking up steam. There are hundreds, and possibly thousands of websites devoted to Green, so I am thinking that an obvious name like this would have been picked up by somebody on the face of the earth if the name had any value at all. Think about it....that is your target audience, and they left this name unregistered the whole time.

For a name that gets zero traffic and has already been passed over by everyone inclined to start a green site, I don't see how it magically has value just because you showed up on the scene and found it available to register.

Unless you know something that others don't, or otherwise have expertise or knowledge that the average person does not have, then you can probably assume that if it is available to register it is a worthless name. You have to bring something to the table other than the idea that people buy green food. People have already beat you to the punch years ago and picked up all of the good names. I am telling you that the odds of you having a profitable experience with this name are close to zero, especially when you add up the value of your time.

Right now you have registered the name, so that is $8 right there, and I bet you have at least an hour invested in thinking about it, parking it, putting up a thread, etc. So, let's say your time is worth $10 an hour. Now you are already minus $18 on what I consider to be a worthless name. These are the types of names that are worth a lot less than people think, and many names like this are actually worth less than zero when you factor in all of the other factors like time spent.

 

[ksinclair]

This is an excellent domain for development; but not for a quick flip. Dont let anyone distract you - develop it, and keep at it consistently and you will get somewhere. You could put up a simple blog site and just blog once a week on healthy food alternatives and if the site is good looking enough, you will sell it eventually.

 

[WhoDatDog]

You can theoretically develop any site and blog away until your are 80 years old. Half-assed attempts at developing worthless names in something that you are not extremely passionate about and are not willing to devote 100 percent of your time to puts you on the fast-track to the domain GRAVEYARD.

You know a name is worthless when the ONLY way to can extract value from it is to sit around in your underwear for an hour per night at 3:00 A.M and make a few posts about green food because you trying to develop a green food blog or site. There are companies that blow tens of millions of dollars starting web businesses that they can't turn a profit on, and they have all of the advantages in the world.

Unless this guy lives and breathes Green Food 24/7 and would develop a site just because he is passionate about it, then wasting more time and money trying to extract value from this name by developing a site will be as useless as you can get. Most sites on the web don't make money. This will be one of them if he takes your advice.

 

[deceneu]

Thanks Kevin for your advice and brainstimulation
Thanks WhoDatDog. I`ll develope it and report you about it (ha, you challenged now my brave webteam)

This thread is a good example to define Yin and Yang .