Comments on: FitnessTrainer.com: Why I Stopped Bidding & Some Buying Advice

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:52 +0000

With the coming government focus on fighting obesity, and even taxing sugar and unhealthy foods, fitnesstrainer.com and health related niches aren’t a bad idea. It looks as though the interest will be coming courtesy of Washington. As an adwords identified synonym for fitness, it would not be impossible to get SERPs to rank the name for personal trainer as well.

I noticed that phrase with the word childrens as a prefix to a 3-word long tail in a drop last year and grabbed the singular and plural. No value for type-in, no organic search, but plenty of ad sponsors for the 3-word – and easily targeted to keywords once built out, with a URL that would attract parents.

…never had time to develop it, though. I do like your Cat Sitter and Dog Walker sites – great idea. It’d be nice to find some 35 or 40 hours days to catch up with :~)

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:21:07 +0000

Nice thread. A domain name’s value depends on lots of factors, traffic, brandable, keywords. If FitnessTrainer.com is used to build one band, I think 20K is accepted, but for keywords and traffic, I do think there are lots of alternatives available.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:38:10 +0000

@ Damir

I don’t know of many crappy domain names (the domain name alone) that have sold for millions. There have been plenty of businesses with crappy domain names that have sold for millions, but that doesn’t really count.

By: Damir Tankovic

Damir Tankovic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:36:19 +0000

Great post – the value of a domain name is in the mind of the buyer.

There are many so called “crapy” domain names that have sold for Millions of $$.

Many people say this and that about domain names but it shows that they do not know much about the Industry they are in.

By: r london

r london — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:06:19 +0000

100% agree with Mr. Silver

We were the under bidder and decided the domain was not great so we stopped. If we want something the price does not usually matter.

If it is worth 20K then it is worth 50K. The extra 30K is nothing if we lan to work on the domain.

Also we would have to have the plural.