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Date: 10/31/07
Posted by: Black Monk
Update on the domain thing
So apparently they are willing to go down to about $800 USD. Which I still think is way too high, but... they mention they get about 1500 visitors to the site per month. With some very basic number crunching, that seems to work out to about $20 to $40 in ad revenue per month which I guess isn't bad. They only have to sit on it for a year and they've made $240 to $480. Pretty good return on investment, that.

In a few years they'll have made their asking price. Of course, we don't run ads on this site and probably never will so for us the domain name has NO VALUE for ad revenue. Since that does seem to be a large part of the valuation of the domain name, well, I guess someone else can jump on that gravy train.

I found it an interesting bit of information since I don't really deal with this kind of stuff on a daily basis. Other blokes who run popular blogs getting 1 million or more hits per month can pull in $1000 USD a day and actually live off of that income, so this is old information to them. But I work for a living so I didn't really run into this before. I suppose it's just academic at this point as the practical upshoot is that if we lose a domain like that, there's no real way we'll get it back unless I hit the lottery or something.