closed m-africa.com - please help with appraisal

[domainoid]

The domain is m-africa.com. M stands for mobile = mobile-africa.com

How much would you sell it for? Thanks.

 

[Biggie]

"M" stands for Mother = Mother-Africa.com

when you have to explain what the "stand alone letter" means...


then, you are starting with a "confusing" communication strategy.

 

[Gerry]

hyphen kills it.

 

[domainoid]

"M" stands for Mother = Mother-Africa.com

when you have to explain what the "stand alone letter" means...


then, you are starting with a "confusing" communication strategy.

Never thought of 'Mother-Africa.com' biggedon but thanks. Makes sense. Didn't get the 'm' part when offered to me as a trade.

- my own domain wasn't so good.

Seller had to explain M for "Mobile" which I wasn't too sold on. mafrica.com is taken though.

I think folks who come across this website won't get it unless it's been spelled out for them.

 

[Gerry]

For a large audience, the m is also medical. I am seeing a great deal of literature describing new technologies or advances in the medical arena simply abbreviated as the letter m.

 

[WhoDatDog]

The name is worth zero no matter what it stands for. End of story.

 

[domainoid]

For a large audience, the m is also medical. I am seeing a great deal of literature describing new technologies or advances in the medical arena simply abbreviated as the letter m.

Good comment Gerry. Hadn't thought of medical. Hard to do research on this one as I am totally unfamiliar with Africa. The hyphen I didn't like at all.I'd like mafrica.com a bit more if you must have a mobile+africa domain but it's a tough one to sell. mafrica.com, mobileafrica.com and mobile-africa.com are taken but undeveloped or with websites unrelated to the domain.


First time the fellow contacted me I did ask him if he was sure m was for mobile on this one. - Marketing shows up all over on the website - looks like that's what his venture was all about.

The name is worth zero no matter what it stands for. End of story.

Fair comment and I don't disagree.I had a worthless .org domain I'd be dropping in a month and the guy contacted me about it. All he had was m-africa.com.


Hope he doesn't do that good with mine.Would be hard to take lol.

 

[Gerry]

Hadn't thought of medical.

Most people would not associate it with Medical. More and more, it has become quite popular and interchangeable. I have few m domains that are totally medical related and do get traffic and typically a very high conversion and high PPC.

 

[WhoDatDog]

Good comment Gerry. Hadn't thought of medical. Hard to do research on this one as I am totally unfamiliar with Africa. The hyphen I didn't like at all.I'd like mafrica.com a bit more if you must have a mobile+africa domain but it's a tough one to sell. mafrica.com, mobileafrica.com and mobile-africa.com are taken but undeveloped or with websites unrelated to the domain.


First time the fellow contacted me I did ask him if he was sure m was for mobile on this one. - Marketing shows up all over on the website - looks like that's what his venture was all about.
Fair comment and I don't disagree.I had a worthless .org domain I'd be dropping in a month and the guy contacted me about it. All he had was m-africa.com.


Hope he doesn't do that good with mine.Would be hard to take lol.

Don't worry about whether he turns the name you were ready to drop into a viable business. The name was worth zero. If someone else wants to build a business around it so be it. The business is what will have the value, not the name.

If someone had the name Google, which seems like a decent brandable name, and they sold the name for 50 bucks in 1995, it is hardly a mistake. Whereas, if someone sold Hotels.com for a few hundred, or even a few thousand, and it then turned out to be part of a monster site, then buyer's remorse is warranted, as it is an obvious home run name. A brandable name, or any other name that isn't an obvious home run, does not change in value no matter what the new buyer does.

The only regrets anyone should ever have is if they let a life-changer go for money that was not life-changing. I believe Poker.com changed hands a number of times, and one of the prices I read about was 80K, but I would guess that there were a number of lower prices than that early on. Now that is one of the monster names and you can have legitimate regret if you sold. Even though Poker.com hasn't turned into a site that many people know about, it will remain the ultimate poker name forever.

A name like CreditCards.com is another. I think that name actually sold for 300K within the past 7 or 8 years. The price quickly escalated into the millions, and I believe the last posted sale was in the millions. That name is just a license to print money, and there really aren't many more names better than that.

 

[katherine]

There is no evidence that m-prefixed domains are popular and sell well

Only two comparable sales found with Namebio:
m-art.com
m-lab.com

m-africa.com is not taken in other extensions.
I don't see the upside with this domain. Good luck.

 

[Gerry]

There is no evidence that m-prefixed domains are popular and sell well

Only two comparable sales found with Namebio:
m-art.com
m-lab.com

m-africa.com is not taken in other extensions.
I don't see the upside with this domain. Good luck.

Shocked that there were two sales.