Comments on: Does a Big Sale Raise Domain Values?

By: markus

markus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:20:09 +0000

i am interested the the keyword bieng suffices by 247, do these hane much value
i here the term 247 everyday, poss in mho these could be brandable .

By: bob francis

bob francis — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:11:28 +0000

I think a big sale like candy.com does a lot of good as it raises the perception of the industry as an investment alternative, and reaches out to millions of people who for the first time see the value of an intellectual property, the icon of the URL. These new people could be investment bankers, wealthy individuals hoarding their cash, or tomorrow’s cash generators, but it’s all good publicity, as nothing succeeds like success. What the industry needs among other things is more actual stories of how a firm acquired a great URL and made millions from levering it in their marketing program. Maybe candy.com will be the domain to launch such a pr campaign. Other firms like sheep will follow and maybe buy candy.net will sell for 1.5M?

By: Domain Superstar

Domain Superstar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:53:53 +0000

“I think candy.ca, candy.de, candy.us etc. had good value even before candy.com sold. But it still doesn’t hurt.”

Agreed.

That being said, domains that are not exact match keyword only domains will likely not see any price appreciation or interest from an end user at all.

If the domain has any word in it that is not part of a searched keyword phrase then the domain is likely not to benefit from a big sale of a related domain like in the example at all.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:58:15 +0000

I agree with David, long tail GeoDomains do have alot of potential (I’ve sold quite a few myself…on a regular basis!).

By: robb

robb — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:30:42 +0000

I think candy.ca, candy.de, candy.us etc. had good value even before candy.com sold. But it still doesn’t hurt.

As for the 4 domains in the original post, welovecandy is probably the best, maybe not as good as ilovecandy would be. The others are more like newbie registrations, but could sell for xxx to xxxx, I’ve seen worse in the weekly reports sell for that. Lots of domains sell for xxxx every week and you have to scratch your head on many of them.