Lots of noise there in the opening pitch/salvo. I know you want to compare it to good names, but it just isn't that valuable. I'm not sure you could give me a coherent response if I asked you to articulate how this name would improve the cash flow of a business. Of course, if you use enough voodoo, magic numbers, and white noise when talking about it, maybe you can sucker someone into buying it.
It is my belief that if you asked every person who has an account at Dn Forum if they would rather have this name or 3K in cash, then every single one of them would take the cash. I am fairly certain that if you asked the top 500 most knowledgeable domainers to choose between $1,500 cash, and this name, with the result being an immediate deposit of $1,500 cash to their checking accounts, or a transfer of the name to their registrar of choice, that 95 percent of them would take the cash. In the world I live in that is how I determine value. I would rather have $200 cash, but that isn't my appraisal, because I know that others here would give you a bit more.
God help the person who buys it and wants to turn it into a real business. Once the business got big, Pepsi would sell a few more packs of rice a roni without doing a single ounce of effort. That is how strong dotcom is, and that is always the problem with extensions other than dotcom. Your biggest nightmare on earth is developing a monster business on a .net and having no chance of acquiring the the dotcom at a reasonable price.
But by all means, try to convince someone to pay you good money for it and start a business with it. Zero traffic to start, and daily confusion when the customers type in dotcom by accident. As is the norm with most of these names, the domainer business model is to scour the world for someone with very little knowlelge, then hit them with a bunch of mumbo jumbo and white noise, and sell them a rotten product at an inflated price. This is why domainers are hanging out with poker players on the list of ugly things to do with your life. At least car salesman sell something people actually need.
There are only a few examples of known domainers with good to great names EVER selling the names at a price, that at the moment of the sale, put the buyer in a better position than he was before the deal. This isn't a great name, though. There are lots of examples of domainers selling low value names to businesses for a few hundred or 1K, where the businesses are much better off. But the known domainers, the ones in the news, they really have never done any favors for anybody, whether it is domainers or businesses. Lots of shady fake sales, and their goal is to punish businesses. That is why they always cry about how big businesss doesn't "get it". Well, most of them get it, they just don't want to deal with domainers.
And that is why forums are ghost towns, and alternate extension scams are in full bloom, once again. Very few people are willing to sell a name at anywhere near the price that they would pay themselves if they didn't own the name. That is bad business. All of the great businesses are ones in which the product being sold is a product that the seller would advise his family to buy at that price. Companies like Apple and Coca Cola. A good business is one in which the customer is the winner. In domaining, everyone is looking to make the customer a loser. So, bad business.
Whomever buys this name is the LOSER in the transaction.
