closed FlowerBusiness.net; appraisal?

[ribbet4frogs]

Thanks.

 

[MydomainPort]

has potential, difficult to appraise this one. I would have to guess $500. Much more if developed

 

[WhoDatDog]

I hate to burst your bubble, but the name is worth zero. Any name can be developed, and any end-user could theoretically buy any name in the world for whatever he could afford, but the reality is that this name isn't worth anything.

It doesn't even have a good ring to it. Do you really want to live in a world where you can wake up one day and register FlowerBusiness.net and make money? That seems a bit unfair to me. If you could do that then you could go to Darfur and teach a few starving children how to come up with stuff like this so they could sell it at Dn Forum and feed their family members.

At some point there has to be some creativity or insight involved in registering a name that you think might be valuable. This name was passed over by all 6 plus billion people in the world until it was finally registered in August of this year. The day before it was registered it wasn't worth anything, and nothing has happened in the world since then could make FlowerBusiness.net be worth anything.

I know it is a harsh assessment, but you have to be able to look in the mirror and at least know that you have a good reason to register a name. A name like this is available to register because people don't think it is worth registering. There are certainly valuable names that are currently unregistered, but you have to bring something to the party that gives you an advantage if you want to make money doing this. Just knowing that people buy flowers and it is a business, and then adding a .net to the end of it, is not going to put you in the Domainers Hall of Fame.

You will save yourself a lot of money in the future if you avoid registering these types of names. The name is bad, but don't take this personal. Someone telling you that the name is worth $500 sounds great. The only problem is the person who suggests $500 would never in a million years offer to buy it from you for that amount, so that opinion is worth about as much as the name......and that is zero.

 

[Prospecting]

I appraise FlowerBusiness.net value around $150. It is clear and understandable. Quick and easy content using an affiliate program that offers flowers/gifts, etc.

A small local flower shop could be interested in expanding online, this domain lends to the larger geographic/online business plan rather than say “Mary’s Flower Shop Portland Oregon”.

Darfur’s starving children ??? Domainers Hall of Fame ???

best of luck ribbet4frogs

 

[ribbet4frogs]

Thanks, Prospecting and MyDomainPort; I appreciate the feedback.

WhoDatDog, the amusing point regarding your response is you keep recycling the same rebuttal, perhaps in an attempt to sound condescending and scathing? Instead you sound bitter and unoriginal. At least say something you haven't already said when attempting to dis the others on this board; to cut and paste your same old cut down seems so cheap. (You have already given me this same spiel, verbatim, in one of your previous "appraisals" of a different domain.)

 

[WhoDatDog]

Your name deserves harsh treatment. I see that your joined in 2007, so it seems that you need some direction. If you think that your brainstorm to register this name in August was the type of insight needed to put food on the the table then I suggest to contact Ben Bernanke and The White House and see if you can get a meeting. You could be the next great economic leader.

The name is horrible but the appraisals might be worse. The best part about 99 percent of the appraisals around here is that people throw numbers around and yet would never buy the names themsleves for that amount. People aren't doing you any favors by telling you the name is worth $500, or even $150. Are you proud of this name? Go approach a stranger on the street and tell them how you spent your summer......registering FlowerBusiness.net. You will get a weird look before they quickly get the heck out of your way.

If you aren't embarrassed about registering this name and then forcing people to look at it in this section then you have a problem, especially since you joined the forum in 2007. What was the thought process that fateful day in August of this year? Did you see a flower and then realized that there is such a thing as a flower industry, so you just jammed the word business at the end and added a .net. That is not genius level creativity.

You will go the rest of your life before seeing or hearing the words Flower and Business used in that order. It is awkard and stupid. People who buy flowers are doing so because they are looking for a personal connection, either to impress a date, send to a funeral, or to give their homes a more personal touch. The word BUSINESS is wrong and does not go with the word Flower.

If you don't get it, then maybe one of these appraisers in this thread will bail you out. The only problem is that they throw around fantasy numbers that don't mean anything in the real world. Nobody is PM'ing you looking to buy this name. That I can guarantee. When good names get posted other domainers will PM and try to buy it. This name is horrible.

Shame on the appraisers who are telling you it is worth money. They would NEVER buy the name off of you for that amount, or anywhere close to it, so they are wasting people's time just like you are. And they are dishonest for throwing those inflated appraisals around and encouraging garbage like this to be registered.

You joined the forum in 2007 and then in August of 2010 you come up with a hand reg like FlowerBusiness.net? I don't get it. Now you want people to tell you how smart you are for registering it? I don't think so.

 

[adonivideo]

no development mid xx
with development, you could make a lot of money on this, flowers cpc can be 8 bucks in some cities
so do geo domains
geo.flowerbusiness.net
then list the geo's in each major city get a local florist and list them using your domain as a lead generator
newyork.flowerbusiness.net will get you 200 to 500 a month just for hitting a map with it
so call up flower shops in each major market, spend a little on a nice front door, then link internally to geo subs
you get real local businesses on the subdomains and they see orders from it, yeah, you can make money with it, but undeveloped, it has minimal value, the reason, no one is search for it in exact matches, but yet, a little work and a few geo clients on page one of google maps, and if you know seo, you pop some cities for geo flower searches and you have a powerhouse domain where you have a ton of searches each day, just look at flowers and roses in major markets, CHA CHING, so development potential huge, no development minor value, mid XX MAYBE low XXX, nice reg, well worth a reg fee, since 'flower' is a power house ppc money maker, I know, I've done florists and I know what they pay for cpc and maps and organic, it's not cheap since so many people are looking everyday for flowers, roses, whatever, good reg, major industry for cpc and ppc seo development and now you have a game plan, when you get rich remember me.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Once again we have to hear the "with development" line. If a name is developed into a business it then becomes a business. Any name can be developed into any business, too, so if you guys are going to continue claim that worthless names might be worth something in development then at least admit the name is a terrible name to develop.

The word business does not go with the word flowers. Just like you wouldn't build a site at FuneralBusiness.net. People buy flowers for sentimental reasons, not business reasons. You guys are going against everything that makes a name have value, and you are not being smart about it. You are too stubborn to realize how bad the name is.

 

[ribbet4frogs]

Thanks, adonivideo.

 

[MAllie]

I think adonivideo's suggestion about using the site to list flower businesses is a good one - it certainly won't harm the name to try. You could also give a tutorial on how to run a flower business, what skills and so on are needed, and add a poll for people to say what they want from a business selling them flowers.

 

[draggar]

This is an appraisal thread, not a thread to pump yourself or thrash the OP.

 

[Prospecting]

This is an appraisal thread, not a thread to pump yourself or thrash the OP.

agreed..... all is not lost,,, all domain names are good, just some are better than others... in lieu of