closed ChargeCard(.)com

[pergamon]

xxxx

 

[south]

Amex

 

[ngconcepts]

Wow, I think this is a great name! My wild guess on this would be mid $xx,xxx to the end user.

 

[Yaffiliate]

A few years ago probably low xxx,xxx... today mid - high xx,xxx

 

[grcorp]

Excellent name. If charge cards are the majority in Europe then you are likely better off trying to sell it to a company there... despite competition from other TLD's such as .eu or .co.uk.

I think it's worth $25,000 reseller, but could be high $xx,xxx for the end user.

To be quite honest, though, I can't picture it being used in any advertising campaigns... the same way that creditcard.com wouldn't do well for a major credit card provider. There is such a thing as too generic.

That does not at all mean it's a useless name. I can picture it being used in one of two ways...

a) Owned by a major charge card vendor such as American Express just to keep it out of the competition's hands, and hopefully land the occasional type-in. Maybe even build a landing page to explain a thing or two about charge cards and try to coax viewers into applying.

b) Owned by an affiliate marketer who gets paid for leads from charge card providers. A DNF user here by the username "owntag" has a site www.mycreditcard.com which to my knowledge does offer a few charge cards. You might want to speak to him... he sure would know what to do with it.

 

[Focus]

low xx,xxx

 

[Bionic]

Superb name but only in the right hands.

Are you thinking of selling or waiting for AMEX to come knocking with $1,000,000 in their suitcase?

 

[grcorp]

Superb name but only in the right hands.

Are you thinking of selling or waiting for AMEX to come knocking with $1,000,000 in their suitcase?

If AMEX were to buy it, I don't think he could get 7 figures out of them.

As I said before, it's most likely going to be a name they'll hold and just use for type-ins and not use it on any advertising campaigns, as that's not what it's suited for.

While he could come to them with an asking price of $1,000,000... they don't need the name that badly, and they hold all the cards (I'm sorry - I couldn't resist that pun :smilewinkgrin: ), so they might come back at you and say all they're willing to offer is $5,000, and given the limited scope of buyers, finding another interested party would be much too risky to put a surefire offer on the line.

 

[Bionic]

Yes that is the most likely case. But within 10 years it's not unforeseeable for a new marketing campaign CHARGECARD to catch everyone's eye at a board meeting and it then becomes a MUST HAVE.

AMEX is already branded, but other players out there.

 

[grcorp]

Yes that is the most likely case. But within 10 years it's not unforeseeable for a new marketing campaign CHARGECARD to catch everyone's eye at a board meeting and it then becomes a MUST HAVE.

AMEX is already branded, but other players out there.

Could you picture Visa or Mastercard using creditcard.com in one of their advertising campaigns should they have gotten a hold of it?

I can't... for the simple reason that it's too generic.

I do agree with what you're saying about waiting. Putting down $100 now for renewal until 2020 should warrant a few unsolicited offers.

For now, I wouldn't be too aggressive in trying to sell it. A little bit of development with an affiliate program should give you some cash flow and then the big payout once a qualified, deep-pocketed buyer comes your way.

 

[Bionic]

Yes, I actually pitched the idea of using ChargeCard.com in an advertising campaign to Citibank. (no offense to the owner going behind your back

A SEDO broker should have some buyers for this in the $40K + range.

 

[katherine]

In Europe it is true that many Visa/MC/Amex cards issued are in fact charge cards, as the balance must be paid off at the end of the month.
Payment of the balance in installments is often available as an option though.
Nonetheless they are typically called credit cards, not charge cards.

IMO low $$,$$$.

 

[theinvestor]

The fact is that if one of the major credit card companies wanted it .. they would have got it by now.

Regardless it can sell for 20K easy so i put that as being the low number.