domain e-brokerage dot com - reg in 1997

[twomoon]

Hello,
Could you please appraise that domain.
It's created in 1997, taken in major extensions.
It's correct spelling with a hypen.

Thanks, Nick

 

[bmugford]

See my appraisal for e-Beauty.com. They are similar domains.

Brad

 

[Larry Fling]

The e- domains come out of hiding..
- is a killer...

 

[twomoon]

See my appraisal for e-Beauty.com. They are similar domains.

Brad

Thanks for the link Brad. Some interesting sales are there

The e- domains come out of hiding..
- is a killer...

Thanks, for your opinion

 

[Jawed]

I don't like hyphenated names and I know they are not in demand. However, this name can be easily placed under the exception list. Online brokerage has a prominent place in the enterprise world and due to its very prominence hyphen can be tolerated, worth high $xxx to low $x,xxx.

 

[Jaco]

These are old school letter prefix names developed back in the wild west days, before people understood what direction the internet would take and before anyone knew what was going to be optimal in a name platform. They would hyphenate the letterprefix-keyword and use that as their primary development platform, even if the unhyphenated variant was available.

I kind of view these as the domain equivalent of outdated gear. Uber-sophisticated interweb long-timers can instantly identify these names for what they are and usually view them as being kinda 'retro-cool' (like an old, beat-up pawnshop guitar is to a musician), but for full scale development geared towards separating John Q Public from his money, things have progressed in a different direction.

Still, I agree there is some value there (especially with this one) but not nearly as much as if you owned the unhyphenated version, even though the pure version may be newer (I don't know- I haven't checked). I think it was John Ruskin who had a cool quote about things whose sole virtue was their age... I'll see if I can't find it.

 

[twomoon]

Thanks guys for your appraisals.
Yes I also think that this domain is like “collectible” thing I agree that for domainers and for people who know something about SEO etc., ebrokerage would be better. But in my opinion endusers, e-brokers would prefer e-brokerage, because as I understood hyphenated version is kind of “more professional”. As I researched in G and Y ebrokers, banks, etc. use e-brokerage.
Maybe I’m wrong