domain What is Fund.com worth today?

The domain is definitely worth at least 7 figures, but no one can guess how much it would sell for.

I own its dot claims extension and am currently selling it. I think its dot com version is worth 50-100 millions.

poweredbyme said:

I think its dot com version is worth 50-100 millions.

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It is a high-quality keyword, but it's not gonna go for anything near this. For that amount, you could buy a company (including a decent domain.) A domain investor having a budget of this size could buy lots of just as good or better domains.

FanCube said:

It is a high-quality keyword, but it's not gonna go for anything near this. For that amount, you could buy a company (including a decent domain.) A domain investor having a budget of this size could buy lots of just as good or better domains.

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Please read the details : https://namebio.com/fund.com

You will see it was sold for $10m privately in 2008.
I considered these 3 things:
$10 millions
Privately
2008

It must be worth 5-10 times now, after 9 years.

poweredbyme said:

It must be worth 5-10 times now, after 9 years.

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Never heard about that law of nature before...

It has just been reported that another good domain, first.com, was sold at $200K years ago and recently sold again for slight more than $200K, so domains do not have to increase in value over the years.

$500k is maximum for this name.

7 figure name imo

FanCube said:

Never heard about that law of nature before...

It has just been reported that another good domain, first.com, was sold at $200K years ago and recently sold again for slight more than $200K, so domains do not have to increase value over the years.

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You don't have to hear everything. Have you heard the global financial crisis before this domain was sold? Do you know the difference between a private sale and public auction? Do you know the banking-financial market size? It's not an ordinary name. It's the perfect name for variety of financial services.

Well, apparently no buyer agreed with you $50-100M appraisal during the last nine years...

I don't really see why a private sale in the past is an indicator of such an increase in value.

BTW, this domain sale has been questioned in the past. Here a couple of articles about the domain sale and the business behind.

http://domainnamewire.com/2011/04/19/i-still-question-the-10-million-fund-com-sale/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwe...-to-westmoore-ponzi-scamsters/3/#27b216506646

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-...dcom-and-weston-capital-2011-4?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

$3 million.

FanCube said:

Well, apparently no buyer agreed with you $50-100M appraisal during the last nine years...

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You have no clue about the size of finance market. 50-100 millions are so little. It's a billion dollar market. Banks are located in the best places of any city. They make huge profits from lending-borrowing thing and "fund" is the best word. Other words are loan and credit. Here is a sale ended up for almost 1 million: https://namebio.com/credit.fr
Can you imagine the value of credit (dot) com ? Fund.com is not less valuable than "credit" because fund better describes (lending-borrowing thing) and is shorter.

FanCube said:

I don't really see why a private sale in the past is an indicator of such an increase in value.

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Public auction would attract more exposure and more bids. Because the end price would be more reliable for the buyer. You would pay $50 millions in auction if you saw the highest bid is $45 millions but you would be reluctant to pay even $10 millions if you feel you are the only buyer.

FanCube said:

BTW, this domain sale has been questioned in the past. Here a couple of articles about the domain sale and the business behind.

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Big deals, big businesses create rumors. There are many web pages saying Paypal sucks. But Paypal is not affected.

poweredbyme said:

You have no clue about the size of finance market. 50-100 millions are so little. It's a billion dollar market. Banks are located in the best places of any city. They make huge profits from lending-borrowing thing and "fund" is the best word. Other words are loan and credit. Here is a sale ended up for almost 1 million: https://namebio.com/credit.fr
Can you imagine the value of credit (dot) com ? Fund.com is not less valuable than "credit" because fund better describes (lending-borrowing thing) and is shorter.




Public auction would attract more exposure and more bids. Because the end price would be more reliable for the buyer. You would pay $50 millions in auction if you saw the highest bid is $45 millions but you would be reluctant to pay even $10 millions if you feel you are the only buyer.



Big deals, big businesses create rumors. There are many web pages saying Paypal sucks. But Paypal is not affected.

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Well that just makes no sense what so ever. Even if the bolded part was 100% true, it only accounts for the buyer's perspective. If I were "selling" the domain, I would go the route that gets me the most money. Maybe the buyer insisted private or no deal, guess what, if the buyer could do that, that means he likely over paid for the name.

Want2learn said:

Well that just makes no sense what so ever. Even if the bolded part was 100% true, it only accounts for the buyer's perspective. If I were "selling" the domain, I would go the route that gets me the most money. Maybe the buyer insisted private or no deal, guess what, if the buyer could do that, that means he likely over paid for the name.

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There might be situations in selling a domain privately: needing for urgent cash, being unfamiliar with selling a domain, being a newbie regardless of the amount of money involved. You assume the seller has to be always a professional and well funded. We don't know how the seller acquired the domain and how much was paid. $10 millions is not something you can easily reject if most of it is pure profit (I don't know the real numbers. I am just listing possibilities which I can think of) It doesn't mean it's worth less than 10 millions 9 years ago.

Finance is a very big market, probably the biggest one. Assume you own fund.com and developed an affiliate site on it. Do you know the commission rates on loan offers at CPA sites? I know because I am webmaster rather than a domainer. You usually earn $xxx from a single approved loan lead. Do you know the CPC rates on finance related keywords? You can make $xx from a single click, usually higher than $2 per click. Finance has one of the highest paying keywords and CPA offers of all times. Also 50-100 millions is not a big amount even for small regional banks in any country. Additionally Fund.com can be developed to provide loans to all countries. You can even make it bigger and more popular by adding forums, help desk section, newsletters and so on. It has a very big earning potential for affiliates and companies running in finance. The name is pronounceable, easy to remember, easy to type, easy to understand its meaning globally.

$500k -1 mil easy imo.