domain Value of skate.nu ?

[Tjau]

Hey,
I'm wondering about the value of this domain not so much the site, but I'll tell you the site story anyways.

Me and my friend used to run this Social Network for Swedish skateboarders (and some Norwegian, Finnish and Danish).

It used to be the biggest (only) Swedish online skateboard social network in 2000-2004 but it got emptied by Facebook and YouTube around 2009 and then Instagram, now TikTok. It was not cell phone friendly as we were busy with other projects and didn't learn how to program for the new times.

So it is kind of a cool old museum of past skateboard generations now. It has some quality photos from 2001-2009 and some skateboarders that would upload photos there as kids has gone professional since.

No one really logs in anymore and the sign up function doesn't work due to a small tech issue but some watch photos and videos there without logging in.

I hear the search ranking has some potential and searches on "skate" seem to have "1,530,000,000 results" but they are not the highest net worth searchers probably...

There is the ice skate population too of course.

But .nu domains, are they even relevant in any way these days?

Would appreciate estimates of especially value to end user, but also eventual "retail" value.

We are not in a rush to sell and it would be fun to use it for building some heritage of some kind of the "museum".

I'll ask about some old .com names too in the future.

Thanks!

Oh, and if it makes a difference, my friend and partner was the original owner, then he forgot to renew it once and a domain name company grabbed it but kindly gave it back to us when we asked what their plans were.

 

[lock]

Zero I once owned fruit dot nu after sale of fruit com about 15 years ago till I realized the island of Niue might have a few coconut trees only and didn't research enough. They wont have a skate park.

 

[Verysassyc]

In the past year there were 14 skate domain sales...with an average of $160.
I think it is brand-able ...but skate sales are not great. Might be cool shop name?

Imo most likely this is $0 but you might get lucky $200...you might get extremely lucky low $$$$

 

[Verysassyc]

In the past year there were 14 skate domain sales...with an average of $160.
I think it is brand-able ...but skate sales are not great. Might be cool shop name?

Imo most likely this is $0 but you might get lucky $200...you might get extremely lucky low $$$$

PS...you can skip the domain name story next time...we all have our stories...no one cares.

 

[Tjau]

Ok, thanks guys, I appreciate it and it makes sense.

I'll skip the story next time then.

 

[lock]

The real point is Dot NU is the country CC extension for one of smallest countries an Island Niue.

 

[kite26]

Yes, but .nu means now in Swedish. For that reason it is used as extra extension on countries like Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium. Find skate shops at these countries and approach them.

 

[Tjau]

Kite26, yes, you are right, the site is in Swedish, it means "skate dot now" and 10-15 or so of our advertisers were Swedish skate shops and some of them would probably buy it for more than what is mentioned here if we wanted to sell it.

We got an offer for 35 k from some other Swedish skaters who wanted to modernize the social network a bit but that was while it was still a bit more active and it seemed like they underestimated how hard it would be for them to replicate the site functions on mobile and it wasn't that much money so we skipped it.

For now we'd probably rather let "the museum" live on than try to get money for the domain unless if someone had some really cool plans for it that would be fun to see happen.

 

[Recons.Com]

Ok, thanks guys, I appreciate it and it makes sense.

I'll skip the story next time then.

Don't. The story was the fun part.

I know .nu makes sense for Scandinavia because it means now? Regardless, too many options right now for naming, so not much resale value. You might want to keep it for nostalgic value and for DA/PA of 16/23, but you can also find a .com with some potential sale value with similar DA/PA or even better. What kind of traffic does it get? Have you held to email database of users?

 

[Tjau]

Don't. The story was the fun part.

I know .nu makes sense for Scandinavia because it means now? Regardless, too many options right now for naming, so not much resale value. You might want to keep it for nostalgic value and for DA/PA of 16/23, but you can also find a .com with some potential sale value with similar DA/PA or even better. What kind of traffic does it get? Have you held to email database of users?

Thanks, I'm glad someone appreciated it. Here is a bonus story for you. 26 years ago I was 18 and begun to patent a product prototype i made, but i never followed through with all the admin. I came up with the name though, and it was RecOn, almost like your domain. So maybe if i followed through I would have gotten Recon.com and Recons.com as soon as internet boomed and you would have another name for your business haha.

Anyways, I don't know so much about domain authority etc and I have about 25 domains, 5 or so of which I will start to use more this year, 2 for online stores.

The skate.nu ask was just out of curiosity, I focus less on skateboard now, more on niches like motivation, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and blueprints to get people out of poverty.

To answer your question about stats:
Dec 2016 1200 unique, dec 2017 1200 unique, dec 2018 600 unique, dec 2019 4200 unique.
I have no idea why it went down in 2018, and did 7 x to 2019, I think about the site stats once a year maybe.

I do have those 14000 e-mails somewhere and other e-mail lists of 2000 and 6000, but I would expect that at least 50-70% have changed e-mail addresses by now, many are hotmail, and many of those who kept their e-mail address may not skate or remember joining the lists, so I don't know if I will ever e-mail them again, I'm starting on new lists for my stores for now, might use some 500-3000 that are a bit newer.

Why do you ask?

 

[lock]

What a 35k offer?
"it wasn't that much money so we skipped it."
https://www.namepros.com/threads/ne...et-me-save-you-credibility-and-money.1149853/

 

[Recons.Com]

Thanks, I'm glad someone appreciated it. Here is a bonus story for you. 26 years ago I was 18 and begun to patent a product prototype i made, but i never followed through with all the admin. I came up with the name though, and it was RecOn, almost like your domain. So maybe if i followed through I would have gotten Recon.com and Recons.com as soon as internet boomed and you would have another name for your business haha.

Anyways, I don't know so much about domain authority etc and I have about 25 domains, 5 or so of which I will start to use more this year, 2 for online stores.

The skate.nu ask was just out of curiosity, I focus less on skateboard now, more on niches like motivation, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and blueprints to get people out of poverty.

To answer your question about stats:
Dec 2016 1200 unique, dec 2017 1200 unique, dec 2018 600 unique, dec 2019 4200 unique.
I have no idea why it went down in 2018, and did 7 x to 2019, I think about the site stats once a year maybe.

I do have those 14000 e-mails somewhere and other e-mail lists of 2000 and 6000, but I would expect that at least 50-70% have changed e-mail addresses by now, many are hotmail, and many of those who kept their e-mail address may not skate or remember joining the lists, so I don't know if I will ever e-mail them again, I'm starting on new lists for my stores for now, might use some 500-3000 that are a bit newer.

Why do you ask?

You are a good storyteller )

Recons: I bought it in the aftermarket. Interestingly, originally it hosted a very interesting website that was into RECONStructing lost episodes of Doctor Who. I bought it with the meaning of "intelligence", like in "we are looking for recon on this" from reconnaissance, but reconstruction meaning is used as much around the world. The domain was first registered mid 1998, so yes, you might have been the owner, but probably would have settled for singular, as that was available until 1996.

Now, regarding skate.nu, making modern sites is quite cheap. You can add some modern auto content, shop etc. to it, without disturbing the old pages and let it live. You can also put links to your other commercial projects onto it to get page authority juice. Email: you can send the announcement on changes to those guys. Many, with even changed emails, keep checking their hotmail etc.

 

[Tjau]

What a 35k offer?
"it wasn't that much money so we skipped it."

At that time I had recently been paid 5-6K from EA to run one single video contest on the page and we had 10 other advertisers so 35K was just a 7x multiple on a single ad sale, which in a way is a low evaluation for the whole community.

 

[Tjau]

You are a good storyteller )

Recons: I bought it in the aftermarket. Interestingly, originally it hosted a very interesting website that was into RECONStructing lost episodes of Doctor Who. I bought it with the meaning of "intelligence", like in "we are looking for recon on this" from reconnaissance, but reconstruction meaning is used as much around the world. The domain was first registered mid 1998, so yes, you might have been the owner, but probably would have settled for singular, as that was available until 1996.

Now, regarding skate.nu, making modern sites is quite cheap. You can add some modern auto content, shop etc. to it, without disturbing the old pages and let it live. You can also put links to your other commercial projects onto it to get page authority juice. Email: you can send the announcement on changes to those guys. Many, with even changed emails, keep checking their hotmail etc.

Thank you for that advice, I might do a lot of that in the future actually, not just on this one, but I have another quite extensive classic asp video site that is also not mobile responsive, but I really like the content.

Where would be a good place to learn about modern auto content (i guess youtube/google, but maybe you have more precise search words?) and would it work on an old classic asp site through embeds etc?

And yeah, maybe singular, but probably both, since they would have been sold in multi packs and mentioned in plural a lot. Anyways, just funny coincidence.





I'm not sure why I wrote down the long story below, but writing just happens for me without thinking and then I look at huge texts that I probably shouldn't even send or post, but I'll post it anyways.


If anyone who read all that knows some passionate, honest, good people that are also good coders for apps, themes, social networks and so on, but would just need to partner with someone with the right potential multi million and billion dollar concepts, feel free to send them my way.

I know a couple of good programmers that I trust, but they are busy with other things that make money and on their free time so they wouldn't gamble on coding something that isn't paid for right away.

Sooner or later I might search on Angel.co for partners.


I've known for 20 years that I'd love to find a partner who's passion is to make social networks, dating apps, Facebook apps and things like that but I haven't really gone after it, I've had so many other dreams I went after instead.

I know that my concepts with the right programmer and a good sales person and maybe a project manager would become very profitable as I've often conceptualized things in my head and seen needs and demand early and then 2-15 later the same ideas go huge.

Started conceptualizing and building a blog for myself before the word blog existed, wrote down a wish list with most functions that made Facebook so popular before Facebook existed.

Right now even if there are so many solutions I still see a lot of open goals when it comes to both social networks, websites, apps, shopify themes and especially the amazingly bad dating app situation, I can't believe how bad Tinder and Badoo etc are to use for many market segments just because they fail to make a few super obvious and tiny adjustments. It would be so amazingly simple to improve them with just a few changes.

Maybe they just don't improve it because they know that users that actually find what they are looking for, then may uninstall the app, I don't know is that is me being too suspicious, but I just don't understand why they wouldn't adjust some things if they really wanted to improve functionality and experience. They do make their money from people wasting as much time as possible so if it was made more effective and successful they would probably need to compensate for that loss.

I'm just not into implementing on most of my ideas in the way of learning to program anymore, maybe I should have gone hard at it 25 years ago, but now the goal is to as soon as possible minimize computer time and get partners and automation for most of that and focus on a bit of Facebook ads, shopify, investing, brand building, exercise and doing some good in the world. Speaking of exercise I should swim and throw some hoops, not sit here.

I made functions and design changes for my Shopify theme that I know people would pay for in app format, but again, I'm don't have time to learn to implement on all possibilities.

 

[Recons.Com]

Thank you for that advice, I might do a lot of that in the future actually, not just on this one, but I have another quite extensive classic asp video site that is also not mobile responsive, but I really like the content.

Where would be a good place to learn about modern auto content (i guess youtube/google, but maybe you have more precise search words?) and would it work on an old classic asp site through embeds etc?

And yeah, maybe singular, but probably both, since they would have been sold in multi packs and mentioned in plural a lot. Anyways, just funny coincidence.





I'm not sure why I wrote down the long story below, but writing just happens for me without thinking and then I look at huge texts that I probably shouldn't even send or post, but I'll post it anyways.


If anyone who read all that knows some passionate, honest, good people that are also good coders for apps, themes, social networks and so on, but would just need to partner with someone with the right potential multi million and billion dollar concepts, feel free to send them my way.

I know a couple of good programmers that I trust, but they are busy with other things that make money and on their free time so they wouldn't gamble on coding something that isn't paid for right away.

Sooner or later I might search on Angel.co for partners.


I've known for 20 years that I'd love to find a partner who's passion is to make social networks, dating apps, Facebook apps and things like that but I haven't really gone after it, I've had so many other dreams I went after instead.

I know that my concepts with the right programmer and a good sales person and maybe a project manager would become very profitable as I've often conceptualized things in my head and seen needs and demand early and then 2-15 later the same ideas go huge.

Started conceptualizing and building a blog for myself before the word blog existed, wrote down a wish list with most functions that made Facebook so popular before Facebook existed.

Right now even if there are so many solutions I still see a lot of open goals when it comes to both social networks, websites, apps, shopify themes and especially the amazingly bad dating app situation, I can't believe how bad Tinder and Badoo etc are to use for many market segments just because they fail to make a few super obvious and tiny adjustments. It would be so amazingly simple to improve them with just a few changes.

Maybe they just don't improve it because they know that users that actually find what they are looking for, then may uninstall the app, I don't know is that is me being too suspicious, but I just don't understand why they wouldn't adjust some things if they really wanted to improve functionality and experience. They do make their money from people wasting as much time as possible so if it was made more effective and successful they would probably need to compensate for that loss.

I'm just not into implementing on most of my ideas in the way of learning to program anymore, maybe I should have gone hard at it 25 years ago, but now the goal is to as soon as possible minimize computer time and get partners and automation for most of that and focus on a bit of Facebook ads, shopify, investing, brand building, exercise and doing some good in the world. Speaking of exercise I should swim and throw some hoops, not sit here.

I made functions and design changes for my Shopify theme that I know people would pay for in app format, but again, I'm don't have time to learn to implement on all possibilities.

I'd advise you to go to Fiverr and find a coder there with the right skill and 5 star average review with quite a few of them.

Give him/her a small project to test, once you establish that he/she is reliable, knowledgeable, has good communication skills, then you can move to another project.

For old content, you can use static pages. There are some code/program frameworks for those. For newo new one, you can go with wordpress. Make sure you learn the basics of it while working with your developer.

Make sure your project has few milestones along the way as well, as fiverr doesn't give much time to confirm that everything if fine once the developer reports finished and then only 10 days to review.

 

[Tjau]

I'd advise you to go to Fiverr and find a coder there with the right skill and 5 star average review with quite a few of them.

Give him/her a small project to test, once you establish that he/she is reliable, knowledgeable, has good communication skills, then you can move to another project.

For old content, you can use static pages. There are some code/program frameworks for those. For newo new one, you can go with wordpress. Make sure you learn the basics of it while working with your developer.

Make sure your project has few milestones along the way as well, as fiverr doesn't give much time to confirm that everything if fine once the developer reports finished and then only 10 days to review.

Good idea with Fiverr, I'll do that.

When you say "static pages", are you then refering to design modo dot com slash static-pages, the wordpress plugin or referring to the general term static pages?

I have dabbled some with wordpress and have a couple of wordpress pages and some very basic knowledge

Thanks again

 

[Recons.Com]

there are cms for static. but probably using something for WP that makes it static might be fine too. The point is to keep URLs and content intact while making it responsive, if it is not too much hassle. And then basically use wordpress to create new content or just leave like that and juice out the traffic and DA for other projects.

 

[Tjau]

"keep URLs and content intact while making it responsive, if it is not too much hassle".
That would be awesome indeed, not just for this site but especially the other one I talked about.

"there are cms for static"
I don't understand it, but when it is time to do it I will google it. :D

"And then basically use wordpress to create new content or just leave like that and juice out the traffic and DA for other projects."

Good plan, thanks.