Wanted: Domain Appraisal Poetry.co.uk

[newguy]

I'd sell to Mally to. The effort you're going to have to put into this is substantial, and doesn't align well with starting at uni.

 

[Edwin]

Why sell it to the first offer when you can very quickly and easily put it on Sedo or DomainLore? That way at least you'll secure the "current market value" for the domain name.

 

[mally]

Why sell it to the first offer when you can very quickly and easily put it on Sedo or DomainLore? That way at least you'll secure the "current market value" for the domain name.

Yep I agree adding it onto domainlore or sedo would get the current market value. I've seen it before though where a member on here has wanted £500, I had offered around £300 and I've ended up getting it for £150 on domainlore.

The good thing about domainlore/sedo is the seller must sell, my offer though had time constraints, so I could concentrate on sales threads rather than appraisals.

 

[rob]

Likewise name offered to me for 1500 went for 80. Offer it for 500 and I would have had it.

Value of an offer is partially in the offer existing itself.

 

[Frog]

Susannah - you're tipping your hand far too early. Telling people why you want the money and you'd have accepted that cash offer didn't benefit you in any way, and just strengthened any potential buyers position. People here in general will give you good advice for free... provided they are not interested in buying that domain from you.

On the joint venture thing, like WB says its not a good option here. To speak frankly, only an idiot would put in all the work to own 50% of something, when they could have bought the domain this week for £6000 by your own admission, and owned the full project. They are going to put in significantly more than that in labour alone to do it properly. You're not really bringing much to the table that is attractive. Come back with a domain that is in an easy to monetize niche that is out of most peoples reach due to cost or simply availability and then you have something worth looking at.

Its very rare where a joint venture makes sense for both parties. I built a Dutch voucher site with an Acorn member - I already had a years work in custom coding a UK voucher site which could instantly be ported over to an NL domain name, which would save months and 10's of thousands of euros. He has what I don't have and can't get - language skills and local market knowledge. So that was a good fit and we've built a profitable site where we both get 50% of something, rather than at this point both get 100% of nothing if we'd built a site each on our own Building a poetry site isn't going to take a lot of custom coding, it doesn't require specialist knowledge etc so I just don't see any real way a JV works...


It all depends how quickly you need money. If you can get by on student loans for the next year, and have the time to develop it I would maybe have a go at building a site. A good one word domain like that isn't likely to lose value over the next 12 months. If you're sitting on a domain like lcdtvs.whatever (as an example) then the worry is you miss the right time to do something with it (look at the owner of the social networking domain struggling to sell it for a third of his previous best offer) - but "poems" aren't going anywhere any time soon so I would not rush to make a decision.

Quickly looking at the top 10 for "poetry", it looks competitive. But you have a 1 word domain which Google just loves to rank when they don't deserve it based on the site/links alone... so its achievable.

A couple of the ranking sites have sub 50k alexa rankings - they're obviously getting significant traffic. They are also picking up a lot of natural links which is increasing the site values...

Selling the domain now is going to get you £100 a week for the next year then you never see a penny from it again... ever. None of those sites on the first page for poetry will be making less than £100 a week (or if they are, they're doing it wrong). So I'd be far more tempted to put the hours in and make a go of building it, before I offloaded it on the cheap.

 

[Ashton]

I would get this thread deleted and any others mentioning it deleted, and sit on it.

Lulu have poetry.com and they are huge. They may want the .co.uk in the future and its worth a mint to a company like them.

You will not be able to compete with them by developing this site yourself, or having a developer. They have 7,000,000+ poems on there, the exact match domain, the budget, the recognition and more. That doesn't mean you cant have a slice of that cake... just its something to think about if you wanted to develop

Its really about your circumstance - if you can survive without the '£6000' then hold it. If you really really need that injection of cash, then take what you can.

Make sure you put it on your sedo and have a basic holding page with an email address for inquiries on it.

 

[rob]

I dont understand why others are not snapping her hand off with £6k or higher offers for this cash cow?

 

[denchomsky]

Website development costs tend to get overlooked. But you will never create a successfull and profitable business from your domain without a decent website. You see it quite often on here, people spend lots of money on a good domain, and then look to get a website created on the cheap, usually using wordpress. I decent website costs A LOT of money if you cant do it yourself, plus you have to factor in costs of marketing your website. You could have a great domain, spent a fortune on web development, and still make no money, if no-one can find your website.

Nearly bloody fainted when I read this, so rarely do you find someone who appreciates the value of a well developed website, over a blog.

 

[julian]

this thread is joke - it's like some doggers meet in a 1999 Lycos chatroom - next thing we'll be all meeting up via facebook - how do we know this person even owns the domain..?

xXx love you all - your all so special for helping poor me xXx kissy kissy

 

[Frog]

this thread is joke - it's like some doggers meet in a 1999 Lycos chatroom - next thing we'll be all meeting up on facebook - how do we know thos person even owns the domain..

xXx love you all - your all so special for helping poor me xXx kissy kissy

We don't know they own the domain... but I think like most others here I'm prepared to take what anyone says at face value until they show otherwise... shouldn't we give an appraisal till they prove to you they own it?

 

[Retired_member41]

this thread is joke - it's like some doggers meet in a 1999 Lycos chatroom - next thing we'll be all meeting up via facebook - how do we know this person even owns the domain..?

xXx love you all - your all so special for helping poor me xXx kissy kissy

Lol hilarious. You really should post more.

 

[susannah]

I'd like to thank everybody who participated in this long thread.

POETRY.co.uk is now SOLD

Naturally I will not disclose the details during the transaction, and when it is completed, it is for the buyer and new registrant to identify themselves if they wish, but the good thing for me is

I AM NOW GOING TO UNI

...

...

Now if anyone would like to make an offer for

Prayer.co.uk
Bothy.com
VerbalReasoning.com and .co.uk
The Human Race.com

and so on...

Then I can even go to Uni AND party

love,
Susannah x

 

[newguy]

Congrats Susannah, I hope you got a good price. Let's hope the new owner makes the most of this great domain.

 

[Edwin]

Well done. Now you can focus on your studies...

 

[Alien]

I'd like to thank everybody who participated in this long thread.

POETRY.co.uk is now SOLD

Congrats! Well done.

 

[susannah]

The clash between the pressure of studies involved in the nursing course, and the time it would take to develop the domain, was the deciding factor. But I have sufficient to get my degree without working every weekend like I would have had to, so really, compared to studying/working weekends PLUS trying to develop a site without experience, and you can see why I sold for a price I'm happy with.

Still got others for sale, guys

Take a look at my profile portfolio! I'll sell the whole of the rest for £4000!

x

Susannah

PS: to the guy who posted the 'photo' of me... and to Julian who sounds cute... just look out for the nurse with the long syringe :twisted:

btw the pic was way off target, just so you know:

 

[Paullas]

The clash between the pressure of studies involved in the nursing course, and the time it would take to develop the domain, was the deciding factor. But I have sufficient to get my degree without working every weekend like I would have had to, so really, compared to studying/working weekends PLUS trying to develop a site without experience, and you can see why I sold for a price I'm happy with.

Still got others for sale, guys

Take a look at my profile portfolio! I'll sell the whole of the rest for £4000!

x

Susannah

PS: to the guy who posted the 'photo' of me... and to Julian who sounds cute... just look out for the nurse with the long syringe :twisted:

btw the pic was way off target, just so you know:

Please don't post pictures like that on here.

 

[susannah]

Apologies!

 

[doodlebug]

What pic, I missed it

 

[susannah]

my bad :roll: