how much overture

[ajthegreat]

How much overture would a domain have to have for your guys to purchase it. If you found an unregistered domain with like 10 overture would it be worth the price to register it?

I am talking about a domain that has never been registered. I know how the expired domains get last months overture boosted from scripts and such.
Would you purchase if it had a around the 10 range?

 

[David G]

It would be impossible to find a name with 10 Overtrure's as their minimum number of returns to report on is 25.

Even if 25 plus it depends on the name itself and other factors. You can easily get burned buying based on only the suggestion tool numbers as I have seem many with high returns but no real traffic once put online, that happens for several different reasons.

 

[ajthegreat]

So if it was 25 would you risk the 7 dollars personally?
Thanks for the reply

 

[Steen]

If a domain has 30+ in overture and it looks like typin traffic or typo, for $7 bucks- sure.

But you have to watch out, don't go regging names on OVT value alone.

 

[David G]

So if it was 25 would you risk the 7 dollars personally?
Thanks for the reply

Normally it's well worth registering. However, I am letting a bunch drop which had good ST numbers at the time of registration ranging from 25 to 200 plus and actually got zilch traffic. In fact, 3 of them with high OV's greater than 200 never even had one hit when put on a counter for a few weeks! There are several interesting and little known reasons for that happening.

 

[seeker]

what reasons could explain such phenomena?

 

[ajthegreat]

It might just be a wild guess. But I find the overture number usually drops to about 1/3 of the month of the month before it dropped, probablly because of all the people interested in the dropping name were inflating it. And after a couple of month I have found that the new overture number usually relates to how many daily type in I will get for that domain.
I have no statistical evidence to support this, just a wild guess at this point

 

[MediaHound]

I would like to see more on this discussion.
I found similar results, ov rating, but then no or very little traffic.
I have my ideas about why, too.

 

[hotdog_pk]

I believe a site has to be developed to take advantage of OV results.

an obvious variable would be the fact that certain keywords have had SEO experts working on them.

high competition is bad even for good OV because you still need to be higher ranked in the search engines.

 

[ajthegreat]

I would like to see more on this discussion.
I found similar results, ov rating, but then no or very little traffic.
I have my ideas about why, too.

I am interested. What are you ideas as to why that happens with the OV rating? d

 

[ajthegreat]

Normally it's well worth registering. However, I am letting a bunch drop which had good ST numbers at the time of registration ranging from 25 to 200 plus and actually got zilch traffic. In fact, 3 of them with high OV's greater than 200 never even had one hit when put on a counter for a few weeks! There are several interesting and little known reasons for that happening.

Did you register them as expired domains or as domains that were not expired but had OV?

 

[David G]

Did you register them as expired domains or as domains that were not expired but had OV?

Expired.

 

[ajthegreat]

Expired.

I too have picked up some lame ducks from pool.
Live and learn I guess