closed bwm(.)com

[wohli]

Would love to hear opinions on this bwm.com domain. How much do you think this one would be worth?

Thanks

 

[Biggie]

depends on how much typo traffic received and any earnings from fumble fingers looking for bmw com....plus intrinsic value of the domain, as is.


nice!

imo....

 

[Theo]

$25k+

 

[Shane]

Nice domain. It's definitely in the 5-figure range.

 

[wohli]

Thank you very much for your opinions!

 

[katherine]

It reminds me of bw-bank.de (Baden-Württembergische Bank), I think it's a rather large German bank we have dealt with a long time ago.
So BW could stand for Baden-Württemberg and I imagine there may be possible end users in Germany. But the only problem is that it looks very similar to BMW.
So I'm not sure a German end user will be brave enough to use this domain
VW are ruthless about their brand, and even caused an upheaval of .de registration rules.
BMW I don't know.
.bw is also the ccTLD for Botswana. BWM could be Botswana Mobile or something like that. Definitely not the worst LLL.com.
I think low 5 figures is justified for any LLL.com when selling to an end user.

 

[Theo]

BMW = Be My Wife
BWM = Best Women Marry

Etc.

What I mean is, the acronyms can be creative, they don't have to fit anything existing.

 

[Tia Wood]

Nice name!

BWM has many opportunities for word association.

 

[acronym007]

From my experience and opinion. Any good three letter .com is going to be $20k+ nowadays minimum. The only thing that matters is if you can wait for the educated buyer and not seller to a pack of resellers...

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

I agree with most above however keep something in mind, its past use can potentially make it worth much less to a savy buyer or more to a savy buyer who will use it to infringe.

Keep it clean and keep both parties interested for now

 

[WhoDatDog]

I don't think anybody here would give you 20K for it, but I guess if you say it enough times it must be true...lol. I mean, you have the most knowledgeable domainers in the world who post or lurk here, and NOBODY is going to offer close to 20K.

BMW is such a strong name and brand, that BWM.com seems a bit awkward, and that awkwardness reduces the price a bit. Sure, hypothetically, you can envision a scenario where someone, somewhere pays a big number. But if that is the test, then there is no need for an appraisal forum. Reality has to kick in at some point.

For a 3 letter dotcom like this, the true value is going to be about 25 percent more than the highest offer you would get here, if a reasonable number of people saw it in a sales thread. If, down the road, the stars align and you got double the high offer from here, that hardly makes it worth double the high offer now. There are such things as opportunity costs in this world (and the time value of money). There are plenty of assets that people can buy for 20 to 25K that will likely go up in time. The stock market doubled from the lows of 2008 and 2009, while domain assets have gone down a ton. Great domains have that quality, where time will likely increase their value, but I don't see anyone absolutely NEEDING BWM.com, though I do see two sites on the first page of Google. One is BWMgrp.com and the other BWMgroup.com. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to suggest that it is theoretically possible for one of these two companies to want the name.

However, if they really felt they had to have it to gain a competitive business advantage, then they would have found a way to secure the name before they started their business (and BWMGroup.com is actually less confusing than BWM.com, because you don't have to explain the similarity to BMW). I am probably in the minority here, but I believe that the confusing nature of BWM, which would likely require an explanation (not BMW....not BMW...remember BWM....BWM.com), makes it worth less than what people here are suggesting. The .org forwards to a Bill Winston Ministries site, while the .net is not even functional, so that tells a bit of a story as to how valuable the letters are (not very).

Very very low five figures, only because someone here will jump in and claim to be ready to buy higher if I appraised it a bit lower. The true number that anyone here on this forum would pay you TODAY is far lower than the appraisals that are being so casually thrown out there.

 

[Theo]

Just because I won't buy a specific car that I like, doesn't mean it's not worth $xx,xxx. Evaluations are based on a number of parameters, some of which aren't obvious to the less experienced. I've sold much worse letters for very close to the price quoted. There is no reason why this won't sell far above my quote. Then again, if the seller takes the first lowball offer of e.g. $15k, they would have made a decision based on their own judgment. They can also delete the domain if they so desire. Life's a series of decisions, some of which can be dumb.

 

[wohli]

Thank you very much all for your honest opinion!

 

[PKumar]

Good name!

Min. $5000
Max. $25,000

So average $15,000

 

[acronym007]

You cannot figure out domain name sales with tools or calculators, or averages. dji.com just sold for $300k, now show me where it was supposed to sell that high for? bwm.com is worth more than many of our appraisals. Time is the only factor to consider.

 

[DNP]

IMO 7-8K reseller price to sell fast, based on a letter quality, current demand and some other factors.