domain CarRepairs.com - value? I'm selling it.

[weralltwits]

I want to sell it as it was originally a hobby for my sons who have grown up and moved away.

Thank you in advance for your opinions.

 

[Dave]

This is a gem of a domain, absolutely fantastic. I can't give a value but I wish you all the best with it.

 

[Nattydomain]

WOW very nice domain. You got 2 options. Sell it to an end user for a nice high $XX,XXX OR spend a few grand and develop it into a money making affiliate site or e-commerce site.

However you look at it I wish I owned it LOL...Good luck in what ever you do!

 

[macleod18]

Very nice name. $50k plus. PM me with what you would like for it.

 

[brandr]

Very nice name. $50k plus. PM me with what you would like for it.

$50K sounds like the price.

 

[replaced]

Someone can definitely make this into a forum. I think you'll have trouble selling for 50k though because if someone is searching for car repairs, they'll just use google or yelp. If someone wants to repair a car themselves, they'll search for car parts, not car repair. I just searched on adwords and out of 12k broad match, people mostly type in car repair shops, manuals, estimates, costs, prices, window repair etc... Car parts (broad) gets 110k monthly searches mostly for products people want to buy. Car repair itself isn't something that sale-able over the internet, it's like pizza.com. It's not too good for eCommerce even though the name is great.

Who would buy carrepairs.com and what would they do with it? How would they ever recoup their 50k investment?

If I'm searching for car parts, such as rims, I wouldn't go to carrepairs.com to do that.

 

[techgal128]

I think this is a wonderful domain that has a lot of potential. Perhaps you should find a broker to help you sell it since it is worth a lot of money. 50k is a good approximation for the price.

 

[JB Lions]

"Who would buy carrepairs.com and what would they do with it? How would they ever recoup their 50k investment?"

Pretty easily if you really develop it into a source type site. Good type of topic where you can put up some quality, informative type of content. Example. I had a situation with my instrument panel that I searched on and it had to do with cluster repair. Watched a few videos on it. You can do leads to people who can fix it, mechanics, companies. You can do auto parts via affiliate links for those that want to get the parts and do it themselves. All kinds of auto parts affiliate programs out there.

 

[replaced]

"Who would buy carrepairs.com and what would they do with it? How would they ever recoup their 50k investment?"

Pretty easily if you really develop it into a source type site. Good type of topic where you can put up some quality, informative type of content. Example. I had a situation with my instrument panel that I searched on and it had to do with cluster repair. Watched a few videos on it. You can do leads to people who can fix it, mechanics, companies. You can do auto parts via affiliate links for those that want to get the parts and do it themselves. All kinds of auto parts affiliate programs out there.

Here's the thing. Auto repair is a service so it's localized. It's not something that can be shipped. You can't do leads to people who can fix it because you'd first have to get thousands of mechanics on board with any type of program because there's thousands of cities in a US and a mechanic in Arizona isn't going to repair a car in Texas. This is simply not a website where you can make money through ads or ecommerce.

Bottom line is that nobody is going to just shell out 50k for a domain like carrepairs.com. That's absolutely insane, especially considering variants are available for regfee or low $xx. If it's so valuable, why don't you create a website and see how much money you make off of it?

The only people who would be interested in buying these types of domains are people who think they can flip them for more. Carparts.com on the other hand is very valuable because you can run an ecommerce website through it and make money. There is a huge difference.

 

[JB Lions]

Here's the thing. Auto repair is a service so it's localized. It's not something that can be shipped. You can't do leads to people who can fix it because you'd first have to get thousands of mechanics on board with any type of program because there's thousands of cities in a US and a mechanic in Arizona isn't going to repair a car in Texas. This is simply not a website where you can make money through ads or ecommerce.

Bottom line is that nobody is going to just shell out 50k for a domain like carrepairs.com. That's absolutely insane, especially considering variants are available for regfee or low $xx. If it's so valuable, why don't you create a website and see how much money you make off of it?

The only people who would be interested in buying these types of domains are people who think they can flip them for more. Carparts.com on the other hand is very valuable because you can run an ecommerce website through it and make money. There is a huge difference.

You're just flat out wrong. Of course it'll take work to build it up, but it's very possible. Leads doable.

It's funny you mention carparts.com and say you can make money because they do. They also have an affiliate program where I myself have had sales with. So if they can make money selling car parts online, you can make money linking to them. I know somebody else that does very well in the automotive parts sector via affliate marketing, niche type thing and they make more than 50k a year on that site, just with affiliate marketing alone. So when somebody is looking for car repair online and they want to do it themselves, it usually involves buying car parts.

 

[techgal128]

Here's the thing. Auto repair is a service so it's localized. It's not something that can be shipped. You can't do leads to people who can fix it because you'd first have to get thousands of mechanics on board with any type of program because there's thousands of cities in a US and a mechanic in Arizona isn't going to repair a car in Texas. This is simply not a website where you can make money through ads or ecommerce.

Bottom line is that nobody is going to just shell out 50k for a domain like carrepairs.com. That's absolutely insane, especially considering variants are available for regfee or low $xx. If it's so valuable, why don't you create a website and see how much money you make off of it?

The only people who would be interested in buying these types of domains are people who think they can flip them for more. Carparts.com on the other hand is very valuable because you can run an ecommerce website through it and make money. There is a huge difference.

I think you might be assuming that people primarily make money with domains that sell products. Carrepairs.com has a lot of options such as an affiliate site (as previously mentioned) or my personal favorite, a forum. I think this would make a kick-ass forum and you can make a full time income with advertising (look at this site!)

 

[macleod18]

Replaced is sort of right, carparts.com is worth more, probably a couple hundred thousand compared to $50k Just because carparts would be worth more, does not mean that carrepairs.com is not a kick ass name.
That is about all he is right about though, there is a ton of potential for this name.

 

[Blake]

CarRepairs.com is not even close to being in the same league as CarParts.com not even close. Now as far as CarRepairs.com we need to consider how many mechanics repair cars, people who own cars, and honestly books on car repairs. I could easily see someone like Chilton's wanting this name as well and willing to pay a hefty premium for the name.

As far as value ....undeveloped I would put it under $10k .......The new owner is going to have a major workload to rank for niches and collect leads as suggested above. Once the machine is setup and collecting leads I would then put it in the $20k+ range. I don't want you to get me wrong this is a great name that deserves to be developed and such.

DISCLAIMER:
**I might be off as much as 50%**

 

[techgal128]

Whatever you do with the name, I'm sure we would all appreciate if you updated the thread.

 

[brandr]

CarRepairs.com is not even close to being in the same league as CarParts.com not even close. Now as far as CarRepairs.com we need to consider how many mechanics repair cars, people who own cars, and honestly books on car repairs. I could easily see someone like Chilton's wanting this name as well and willing to pay a hefty premium for the name.

As far as value ....undeveloped I would put it under $10k .......The new owner is going to have a major workload to rank for niches and collect leads as suggested above. Once the machine is setup and collecting leads I would then put it in the $20k+ range. I don't want you to get me wrong this is a great name that deserves to be developed and such.

DISCLAIMER:
**I might be off as much as 50%**

Agree with this. The value of this domain will come from contents instead of the name. With carparts, it is relatively easy to put in contents. With car repairs, it will be next to impossible to populate contents, imagine for yourself, where/how would you even start the website, which car model to repair, which parts to start with. The owners would have to be very familiar with car repairs of all kinds to even have an idea where to start. If you know where to start, where/how do you find content, youtube and articles or write it yourself?

The most likely path to success is to have a crowdsource site, but for that to happen, it needs to have some contents first. This is perhaps the most difficult topic to start a site, you need information and organization AND manual labor expertise. You can't throw money to find expertise help because most mechanics have limited knowledge about certain cars/parts, most will not have energy to even start.

There are sites out there already that have paid experts to answer questions, but answers are mostly vague since people don't know what is wrong or can't describe what is wrong, the experts don't have enough info to give good answers. Most people are looking for good free info, else they would be taking their cars to the shop.

These are the reasons why there is not one authoritative place to find car repair info, and most info are from niche forums.

 

[verbster]

carrepairs.com may not be as good as carparts.com, but it's still worth more than $20k. There's a good chance of someone like Triple A shelling out 40k or more. I would consult with a few of the major brokers just to see what they say.

 

[replaced]

If you want to feel good and not sell it, do 50k. If you actually want to sell it in the next few years, try 15k (sell to another flipper). I've taken a look at all the autorepair and carrepair domain variants out there and most of them are pretty much non-developed. Most people who bought them or regged them are flippers. The ones that sold for $$$ are for sale again, go figure.

 

[DU]

I think this would make a kick-ass forum and you can make a full time income with advertising (look at this site!)

No one in their right mind should spend $50K on a domain name to setup a forum. The wonderful thing about forums is that they can be on the crappest name in the world and it doesn't matter.. people find them... look at NamePros.

I used to hang out at VWVORTEX which is the #1 VW site and a crappy name.

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Here's the thing. Auto repair is a service so it's localized. It's not something that can be shipped. You can't do leads to people who can fix it because you'd first have to get thousands of mechanics on board with any type of program because there's thousands of cities in a US and a mechanic in Arizona isn't going to repair a car in Texas. This is simply not a website where you can make money through ads or ecommerce.
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I actually agree with a lot of what you've said. I think people generally undervalue other means of getting traffic to your site. Most businesses don't need what minisite / trash developers need to get their name out there. I still firmly believe that a SMB can get a good name for $1500 so $50K is not worth it unless you are determined to be an ecommerce site. The other thing that people don't realize is that sometimes you don't want the generic - if you owned Jims Car Repair company it's really important to keep the Jim in there. CarRepairs, while nice, loses your identity somewhat.

You have tended to be too literal, however, a site Car Repairs could very easily sell parts or be a commerce site based on any aspect of automotive repairs - lead generation etc.. If everyone only focused on the exact match for what they were doing (carparts) there would be far fewer successful businesses out there.

I do hate the Double R from a pure advertising standpoint CarRepairs is actually awkward to type vs carparts. Anyway we're comparing cubic to diamonds.

My feeling is that no small timer will pay more than $5K-10 for the name. There's no point. That leaves you with larger companies and financed companies (or domainers with cash who want to take a chance) that would/could pay considerably more but they'd have to really want it. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to spend $20K on a solid name like this - and more with patience. But as pointed out there are a lot of paid pages that are better and with a big enough budget I'd go elsewhere because CarRepairs is good but it's not great. Big budgets could go bigger and better..smaller budgets could go smaller and as good. You're in that awkward middle ground.

Generally speaking I wish all affiliate programs would die a slow painful death so anyone who suggested that - I officially would like to thank you for making e-commerce and the internet a little less interesting.

What I would do?

I'd make an inquiry into other sites with siimilar names as a potential buyer and see what the market looks like... pick some close names and make inquiries - no one says you can't do that.
Price accordingly - i.e. a little less than most of them You'll probably find they have more search volume etc and make some money parked... but I would think that if you wanted to sell that the $10K-15K would sell. Anything higher would take time. If you price there someone may very well come along and flip it for more but you can't worry about such things imho. Carrepairs is really a pain in the a$$ to type.

But I have no idea what I'm talking about really.. I am just STS.

 

[mind3]

This domain is worth thousands of dollars. I think you could sell it above 20K

 

[replaced]

I think we need to look at the big picture.

There are lots of reg free car repair domains out there. They aren't half bad either.

What would the amount of profit difference be if someone got the domain name carrepairs.com and a regfee car repair domain? Would it justify spending $50,000 on carrepairs.com? What about the risks involved? What about all the other domains such as carrepair, fixcars, fixauto, carfix, autorepairs, autorepair, autorepaircenter, carproblems, fixmycar, etc...?

#1 Big companies don't move into generic names. Only a startup or flipper would buy this name basically.

#2 Average searches for car repairs is about 10% of car parts.

#3 When a car breaks down, most people won't be able to repair cars themselves. People who go online are trying to save money, they aren't going to buy expensive rims.

#4 There is no repeat customer base, with carparts you can have customers come back and remember the name. Cars break down every few years, people will just go on google and completely forget the website domain name.

#5 Wikihow and google searches already provide tons of auto information help, how much ontop of 50k is needed for content on the website? The centralized resource here is google, not a single website.

#6 You can't put too much faith on domain sales for appraisals because they can be faked. (such as for carrepairs.net etc)

In order to get a valuation, we need to know how much money you'd expect carrepairs.com to make and speculate on the difference of money you'd be getting if you had a less than valuable domain name. I think we need to be asking ourselves how much would WE pay for this domain instead of asking how much it could sell for. It's the content that's valuable, if domain names were so important then explain to me why buy.com redirects to another website and why search.com failed.