closed ConsolidationFAQ.com & .info

[emark]

Any appraisal feedback on one or both of these?

ConsolidationFAQ.com and ConsolidationFAQ.info

 

[theinvestor]

Unfortunately these are worth $0.

For a few reasons but let's go with the obvious : How will anyone make money from that domain?

When i can't even think of an end user for a domain, that's a sign it is a worthless domain for many years to come.

 

[emark]

My thought when I registered them was that they could be used for a keyword rich content site that provides information about consolidation loans, debt consolidation ... What would the chances of AdSense helping to produce income?
I was looking more at the Google traffic estimates. This is for the word 'consolidation' itself. Not with the FAQ.
Today it's showing local(US) monthly searches of 2,240,000, and an estimated avg CPC of $19.19. Would any of that help create a value?
I've never had a domain with as high a CPC as this, nowhere near. When selling domains I usually did/do just pull a figure off the top of my head.

 

[WhoDatDog]

You are missing the whole point of what makes a name valuable. Forget about Google searches, etc. Nobody is ever going to type this name in and it doesn't even lend itself to being developed.

It seems that more and more people are trying to reinvent the wheel and create new names that really don't mean anything. If I were you I would go back to Domaining 101 and do something like this:

1) Take a word like Plumber and then start running it through cities.....DallasPlumber.com, FortWorthPlumber.com, etc. You will see that these are already taken, I am sure, but then you can start thinking about smaller areas. Just get lists of cities or places with reasonable populations and start throwing around some names followed by the area........AustinDentist.com, or AustinUsedCars.com.

At least after going through this excercise you will start thinking about what makes a name valuable. It either has to have traffic or you have to imagine that someone might want the name to use as a site. There really isn't another reason why you should register a name. You are trying to come up with something speculative that isn't even a good speculative name.

The odds of you having succes with your current approach is close to zero. First, you should be able to show steady profits buying and selling names that are already registered. Then, you will have more knowledge about what makes a name worth registering.

I am being harsh because you are wasting your time and heading down the wrong road. If you don't get on the right track you will waste your life. Think about the probabilities and stay away from the 'what if' approach. At least for now.

Don't worry, even the most succesful domainers in the world have registered far worse than what you have, but they learned quickly that it was the wrong approach.

Edit....I just saw that you were registered in 2004. Obviously, you should know that this name is worth zero as is. Any combination of letters could be worth anything, I guess.

I appraised a name yesterday that probably gets zero traffic, but it makes sense. Someone put up PhobiaForum.com. Now, that is a good name. End-user possibilities are plenty, and the name lends itself to development. It is obvious that the name has value the moment you look at it.

 

[emark]

I do understand what you guys are saying. And WhoDatDog, I wouldn't consider what you said to be harsh. That's why I put the post out. I want domainer's input. And I have been overly speculative with a lot of domains. GoDaddy will agree with me because of all my drops.

I've been a member since 2004, but that doesn't help me if I don't know a value now days. My role has always been as a developer. I did have one six figure sale in 2002 right at the end of the bubble. That was after 15 month of C&Ds, and a trip to federal trademark court with a major company that everbody knows. Needless to say, I won the case. Thanks to my ignorance of how the legal system worked. I'm sure they had spent almost/at least that much with their high dollar attorneys.

After that, I was on medical leave from '04 to '08. Since then I've registered a lot of duds and sold a few domains, but at prices I just pulled out the air.

I do have a few spainsh generics, US, Central America, northern South America spanish. No doubt, I'll be holding them for a while.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Sounds to me that you have done pretty well. Congrats on the six-figure sale. I had one myself in 2007, though I paid 50K for mine and sold for a little more than three times that.

Since you are a developer there is a chance that you sometimes register some duds because you know the power of development. I am a pure domainer in that I believe that a name has value or not. Some names like the PhobiaForum.com I mentioned are valuable because someone would want to develop them, but the further you get away from obvious ones like that the more trouble you can get into.

I used to see a lot of "if developed, it would be worth XXX", but that doesn't make any sense to me. The word Google.com would probably be worth $100 or so as it is at least pronounceable as a brandable name. The world Yahoo.com would be worth a little more, of course. The fact that they were developed doesn't really matter. As stand alone names they would have been worth a certain low amount, though the fact that they were easily brandable would have made the stand alone amount a little more.

There is/was a site called CommissionJunction.com. Now that is pretty much a name that is worth zero. They turned it into a business, but that doesn't change the fact that the name is not a good name. I heard that at one time they were even spending a ton of money per year on typos of that name so that they didn't have traffic leakage.

GoDaddy.com is an example of a brand/business that was built off of a name worth close to zero, but GoDaddy makes sense as a brandable name....can't really misspell it, but as a stand alone name GoDaddy.com is pretty much worth zero....unlike Yahoo.com, for instance, or even Google.com to a lesser degree.

ConsolidationFAQ.com just doesn't have the same ring to it, in my opinion.....no buzz.

 

[emark]

Man, I don't even know why I asked about those other domains. They're in the same boat as the others. I totally understand what you mean about the "name'" itself having the value. I'd better get busy with some more site building.
Thanks again for all the the help WhoDatDog.

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While I gotcha here let me ask you about another one. Again, I started developing this one but put it on the back burner for now. I tend to let my plate get too full.

This one is MarkingTerritory.com. I was, and will eventually get back to, putting together a content site for marketing and advertising resources and info.
Any ideas?

Now looking at this one it seems to fall into the same category as the other. Am I doomed?

But wait, if you act now you can help me with another for the unheard of low price of ... I had a site at SeniorSomething.com since 1999-2000. I deactivated it aboiut a year ago. My financing fell through and I never got back to it. It made a little money for me. It was a directory and content site. Then sites like facebook came along and screwed things up. I'm still hoping to eventually pull some senior traffic from fb.

Since they were for development, I have no idea about a value for just the domains.