closed PetStainRemovers.com

[lotk.com]

Just acquired PetStainRemovers.com and plan on developing.

Thanks for your appraisal.

 

[WhoDatDog]

I don't think a lot of people are going to type in the name. Most everyone who has pets knows where to get this stuff, and they will go get it physically at their local pet or grocery store. Not sure people are going to spend any significant time at all looking for this online. That is the only way it works as a developed site, you would have to be about the product yourself and also have a passionate consumer. For a site to be profitable you have to have 1)Paying subscribers, or 2) Advertisers, or 3) Selling a product yourself. You won't get paying subscribers, so that leaves you with the second option of making your money through advertising, or the 3rd of selling the product directly to the consumer. I don't see people ordering this online.

Unless this name gets some type of type-in traffic, then whatever you paid was likely too much. However, if it gets some type of decent type-in traffic, then you might be able to use that traffic for a general information site about pets. But to develop a business around pet stain removers seems like the longest of longshots. I see fleeting consumer interest at best, and I don't see where you would have any competitive advantage whatsoever.

Not trying to be harsh, but since you said you are turning this into a business, you now have to properly account for the hours you put into this business, and once you put in a few hours you might be in too deep and never get even. If it's a business like you said, then there needs to be a reason why it will be a profitable one. If it's not profitable, then it isn't worth spending your time on it.

Unless one of your passions in life is Pet Stains, then I just don't understand the desire to go into that business. I see this everywhere in domain land, day after day and year after year. Everyone mentions development when the names are not so great. What they are saying is that the only way this name has big value is if I go into business and use this name. People just nonchalantly throw these things out there like they are Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs.

The world doesn't work that way. People don't even realize that sites like Facebook never even supported themselves legitimately. They needed loan after loan after loan. And now they are about to rob the public blind with an IPO. And they have hundreds of millions of eyeballs, and couldn't even turn a profit until recently, and they would have gone broke without other people's money.

Your name represents a product, and not social media, but the money has to come from the consumer one way or the other, and I think you would be better off going into business in another area. The hours spent on development by people on these boards is not time well-spent. Some will jump on me and tell me how they are geniuses with development. Well, then they should be spending their time on their business, and not on message boards. Any business where you can just half-ass do it on a whim without tremendous passion and effort is bound to fail. The domain graveyard is full of many names like this.

I'm not saying the name is reg fee, but it isn't a lot more than that. This message is not a personal attack. I am hoping some newbies read it and that you don't take it personally. It is more of a general comment on developing these types of names.

 

[lotk.com]

Thanks for the reply. When I say "developing", I did not mean a business per say but an info site with advertisements.