What would you do?

philiporchard · Oct 21, 2010

I own the geo:

Colorado-Springs.com

It was first registered back in Feb 1997, and was an official government site until 2000, which is probably why it has 270 inbound links (Yahoo siteexplorer), and a current PR of 4.

Sub pages, such as 'Restaurants' have a PR of 3.  

The city has a pop of 420,000, and the metropolitan area has an population of approx 630,000.

On Google.co.uk, if you search for Colodaro Springs it appears on page 1 - just. However for one of the top 50 largest cities in the US - page 1 is a good start!

I'm looking to sell, and was wondering whether to get a new site put up on it first, or just sell it as it is?

Thanks, Phil

inbound · Oct 21, 2010

I would get in touch with the people who own Edinburgh.com (amongst others) - I think they have serious cash (although don't judge them from the site that's on it...); they have paid good money in the past and understand the value of geo's.

no need to put up anything new on the site - people will be buying for the potential rather than the code.

Good luck.

accelerator · Oct 21, 2010

If it was me, I would try and sell as is to begin with. People that understand geos should understand the potential.

Rgds

Bailey · Oct 21, 2010

You'd move it to a US based host.

someone like Godaddy (put it on their resellers market) - play dumb - and see what happens

nice domain

Edwin · Oct 22, 2010

Perhaps talk to Rob Sequin?
http://www.elliotsblog.com/rob-sequin-acquires-cambridge-com-3784

philiporchard · Oct 22, 2010

Thanks for replies with useful ideas

Much appreciated.

Ashton · Oct 22, 2010

Hmm, I am unsure but might be better to approach a US domainer, not a UK geo domainer.

At the moment I would improve the site on it and make sure you get a US server. Getting #1 should be pretty easy with all those tasty links (edu etc) and that will increase the value a lot.

I would say, a nice tidy site on it with everything you would expect, maybe: http://demo.woothemes.com/cityguide/

Get it number 1, get some lovely stats images and place it on flippa.

retired_member34 · Oct 22, 2010

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dougs · Oct 22, 2010

build it

Host on US site

Do keyword research for all the main terms related to Colardo Springs

Create a page for all of them

Link all main pages from front page with anchor text to deep pages

Leave for a few months and see what traffic you get and what you rank for. Then decide who maybe a better buyer.

Doug

philiporchard · Oct 22, 2010

Thanks for the replies...

I'm probably going to pop it up on DN asap, and will see what offers I get. Ideally looking for high $x,xxx, so mid £x,xxx.

If no joy, then I'll develop the site a bit and then try again!

philiporchard · Oct 27, 2010

For sale now.
BIN is £3,500.
Close offers considered too.

philiporchard · Oct 29, 2010

Domain Sold - thanks for looking.

Bailey · Oct 29, 2010

Nice one phil, hope you got close to the figures discussed, I tried to send you a further PM regarding some of the current TLD usage - but, got a mailbox full notice.

Coincidently was it our new member from Colorado that brought it ?