Please don't be offended but you are grabbing at alot of straw to find 1 gram of gold.
One can use that that method and soon be broke in a barn of straw.
And I do understand the impact of VR better than most in the domain world. I am not a newbie to VR or domains. I have spent many years on both in reality not fictional theory.
I'm only thinking of you poor investors who have yet to learn what many before you have already learned and survived. I am one of them. Funny you never hear from those that lost their shirt in this game. But I see their domains in the dropped lists for many years and expect to see many more of them. Thousands everyday.
If you want to justify your JesusChristVR's to feel better about them, show some hard numbers that make it a value better than $200. If you can do that, then find who would buy it for whatever you think it is worth. Then start cold calling them as they will not likely find you.
If I came to you wanting to buy it and I feel it is worth only $50 and you need to explain why I should be paying more than that for it.
You can't justify a higher price with what you are saying.
You may have even refused a $200 offer and that does nothing for me as a present buyer as that last offer that was refused went on to something else as I will do unless you can explain the value. That could be that it has a lot of natural type-in traffic. It could be that it is very memorable, But there has to be substance to value.
There is a reason .com's bring more money than .nets's and that can be backed-up with numbers.
In a few "RARE" cases, one is able to obtain extreme dollar sale from a company that their marketing dept has already determined the best name for them and a few alternatives.
I remember iReports sale to CNN in the 7 figure area (congrats Rick Schwartz). But how do you know what to hold out for when the offers are coming anonymously, Rick knew who he was dealing with. You have no idea what the buyer is going to use it for. I would like to hear his selling pitch though.
These type of sales are very rare but everyone seems to think that every word combo that they will come up with added to a key word will be in demand. By who ? Anyone with money to spare on a intangible item to target sales or info to the public (that makes money).?
I have many short iNAMES.com and get no offers on them. What Rick achieved does not mean iJesusChrist.com has any value. iJesusChrist.com's owner will have to make his own case for value.
Sex.com brought in the big bucks because the seller was able to prove extreme traffic numbers and a hot advertiser word group (folks willing to pay high dollar to advertise to a targeted group). That brings value worth more than alternatives.
When you see weekly/monthly sales reports, do you ever ask yourself why they had a value over 1k. Do you ever try to find out? All of you folks buying all those possible alternatives with high expectations actually help make my case for better domains a better value for a actual sale. Thanks.
I'm not knocking the purchases, just the pricing and the whole point of this is/was why folks don't like DOMAINERS. Unrealistic expectations.
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