Cabs.com sold $50,000

[Dave]

Surely the sort of name one would expect to hit 6 figures!? :S A bargain!

https://sedo.com/rss/rss_list.php?rss_id=17&partnerid_rss=14743&tracked=&partnerid=14743&language=e

 

[Joseph Green]

Should result in a nice ROI for the buyer.

Or maybe Uber is hurting the cab industry?

 

[The New Guy]

Maybe uber bought it - or actually stole it at that price.

 

[tomcarl]

Yeah, that was a bargain for the buyer not because it could easily go for more at this point in time, but in a couple of years down the road once GPS technology hits every commercial cab in nyc or should they add additional funds ($10k) into building some sweet apps and promoting it, they can go around and flip $100k+

 

[RU]

Why so cheap?

 

[liveyourdreams]

$50K is really cheap for cabs.com. Wouldn't be surprised if this is sold in a few years for $200K or even more.

 

[mjnels]

Why so cheap?

cuz domaining is going to sleep.

 

[RU]

I think because new TLDs is coming...

 

[N-A]

Why pay $50,000 when you can pay $25 bucks or so for a .cab?

 

[RU]

Why pay $50,000 when you can pay $25 bucks or so for a .cab?

That's it!

 

[N-A]

That's it!

After all this... I really hope that was a joke.

 

[Soofi]

$50k is decent money for cabS.com IMO.

It is something plural and ends with an S.. if it was only CAB, it would have touched a high six figure amount.

How many people in here type CABS and not CAB when they have to order one in Google search or broser?

 

[The New Guy]

$50k is decent money for cabS.com IMO.

It is something plural and ends with an S.. if it was only CAB, it would have touched a high six figure amount.

How many people in here type CABS and not CAB when they have to order one in Google search or broser?

In the US at least, cabs.com would be preferable to cab.com - just like cars.com is more natural for someone looking for a car than car.com

 

[Soofi]

In the US at least, cabs.com would be preferable to cab.com - just like cars.com is more natural for someone looking for a car than car.com

Looks like you or your known others in the US go on looking for "CABS" instead of a CAB my friend.

If you check Adwords Keyword Planner, you will see what I am trying to say about CAB keyword any day better than CABS.

• CAB has 74,000 average monthly searches in the United States.
• CABS has 18,100 average monthly searches in the United States.

The comparison to CARS doesn't really make sense, or someone like yourself would come here and start rambling about terms like HAIRS, TVS or what not!!

Request you to at least research a little before sharing irrelevant information like that The New Guy.

 

[Rick Ace]

Cabs.me is for sale on Namepros taking offers from $500. PM me

At least someone is making the best out of this. xD

 

[The New Guy]

Looks like you or your known others in the US go on looking for "CABS" instead of a CAB my friend.

If you check Adwords Keyword Planner, you will see what I am trying to say about CAB keyword any day better than CABS.

• CAB has 74,000 average monthly searches in the United States.
• CABS has 18,100 average monthly searches in the United States.

The comparison to CARS doesn't really make sense, or someone like yourself would come here and start rambling about terms like HAIRS, TVS or what not!!

Request you to at least research a little before sharing irrelevant information like that The New Guy.

It doesn't matter. The issue isn't google keyword value for some $100 domain that will be parked with some clickthrough ads. This is a $50,000 domain that a million dollar business can be built around. What matters in that case is what the consumer expects with that type of web site. In this case, in the US, plural wins.

Take it from someone born and raised in the US. While people may search for a single 'cab' in a certain city, in the US the natural, cultural usage for a business about cabs will be the plural. Once they know they can use cabs.com to get a cab, they won't search for 'cab' at all. That is the point, and that's why cabs.com was a steal at $50,000.

All these are true in the US:
If someone is looking to buy a car, 'cars.com' is more natural than car.com
If someone wants to buy one shirt, 'shirts.com' is more natural than shirt.com
If someone wants to buy a phone, 'phones.com' is more natural than phone.com

Even though they may type in "white collar shirt", "cheap mobile phone", or "new sports car", what they will gravitate towards in a web site is a plural in all those cases. That is what a business can be built around, and that's why the plural is more valuable if you're actually going to be developing a business around the domain name.

This is the danger of relying on statistics instead of hands on experience, and it's one of the reason I stay away from other country codes and languages that I didn't grow up speaking. There are subtle yet important differences in usage based on plurals and context that can't be taught in any school - you have to be immersed in a culture for quite a while to get a handle on how things like quantity, syntax and phrasing can completely change the value of a name in a certain market.

 

[Soofi]

This is the danger of relying on statistics instead of hands on experience, and it's one of the reason I stay away from other country codes and languages that I didn't grow up speaking. There are subtle yet important differences in usage based on plurals and context that can't be taught in any school - you have to be immersed in a culture for quite a while to get a handle on how things like quantity, syntax and phrasing can completely change the value of a name in a certain market.

LOL, you serious? I went to school in Vancouver, Canada and lived there for good 5 years for your information!!

 

[The New Guy]

LOL, you serious? I went to school in Vancouver, Canada and lived there for good 5 years for your information!!

Congratulations.

However, I see you didn't mention where you were born and raised.

There is a big difference from being born and growing up in a certain location and going to school in a neighboring country. If I spent 5 years in Austria I wouldn't consider myself an expert on cultural usage of german words in germany.

 

[Soofi]

There is a big difference from being born and growing up in a certain location and going to school in a neighboring country. If I spent 5 years in Austria I wouldn't consider myself an expert on cultural usage of german words in germany.

Dude, I don't even consider myself a domain name expert, forget talking about expert on cultural usage of English or any other language for that matter, however, I do see that you need to learn quite a bit about the domain names and related statistics involved.

And I give up on arguing with you, have fun!

 

[The New Guy]

Dude, I don't even consider myself a domain name expert, forget talking about expert on cultural usage of English or any other language for that matter, however, I do see that you need to learn quite a bit about the domain names and related statistics involved.

And I give up on arguing with you, have fun!

Giving up is probably your best bet. You're trying to argue statistics on a purchase that has nothing to do with them. It has to do with building up a legitimate business in a certain market, not getting the most search traffic for a 50 cent click through ad.