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Over the years I have been following the progress of property.com, from the sheer fact of the value of the domain all the way thru to the well financed domainer who owned it.
For whatever reason this domain never really got off the ground from a development perspective. I know the rumored X million dollar sale price and what not, for which case everyone knows it is more than worth a few million dollars.
The concern I have is, maybe it is to generic to really establish any sort of presence online, outside the power of the name itself. If any of the big property, and real estate players had any interest in this domain, they would have tried to purchase it by now, especially during the real estate boom that just ended. I am sure there were offers, but at some point the value outweighed the cost, and they walked away leaving it to be basically a well elaborated parking page.
I know when I want to search for property I will not go to property.com, if I wasn't a domainer, and just a normal internet user, after I visit to the site, I would never go back again, because it serves little to no purpose. I know that can be said with just about any parking page, but when you are talking about property.com, with all the money backing that site, you would think there would be a better business plan in place. It is almost sad to see such a great domain in that sort of developed state.
For whatever reason this domain never really got off the ground from a development perspective. I know the rumored X million dollar sale price and what not, for which case everyone knows it is more than worth a few million dollars.
The concern I have is, maybe it is to generic to really establish any sort of presence online, outside the power of the name itself. If any of the big property, and real estate players had any interest in this domain, they would have tried to purchase it by now, especially during the real estate boom that just ended. I am sure there were offers, but at some point the value outweighed the cost, and they walked away leaving it to be basically a well elaborated parking page.
I know when I want to search for property I will not go to property.com, if I wasn't a domainer, and just a normal internet user, after I visit to the site, I would never go back again, because it serves little to no purpose. I know that can be said with just about any parking page, but when you are talking about property.com, with all the money backing that site, you would think there would be a better business plan in place. It is almost sad to see such a great domain in that sort of developed state.