domain ff.net

[FNBruggeman]

This domain has been in my possession for some years now. It has a website on it, but lately I've been slacking on updating its content and graphical bug in firefox.

Recently a domain broker contacted me telling me they offer $5,000 for this domain. This amount is a bit too low for my taste (mainly due to personal attachment). I'm a programmer and not a businessman. I'm leaning a bit towards contacting a domain broker, but the amount of scammers out there is gigantic; hence this post here.

I've done quite some googling myself and found out some saleprices of recent two-letter dot-net domains:

XS.net- $13.000 T.R.A.F.F.I.C., november 2006
CD.net- $20.000 T.R.A.F.F.I.C., november 2006
PO.net- $10.000 T.R.A.F.F.I.C., november 2006
SO.net- $13.000 T.R.A.F.F.I.C., november 2006
Lv.net- $10.000 KuwaitNet, february 2006

These aren't two of the same letters like ff.net, but I can imagine CD.net being a wonderful name as well. pc.net is for sale for 80k I believe, but since that's not the selling price I'm not too sure they will actually receive that kind of money.

Last, I'm a bit confused by using stats to decide on the value of my domain. It sounds a bit silly searching for two f's in google - of course I get 133 million results, its not a word! Judging from the stats on my website most users end up with my domain because of "Final Fantasy", "FireFox" and "Fan Fiction". I get a gigantic amount of traffic from the last one, since its huge community nearly all shorten fanfiction.net to "ff.net"

At the moment my domain has a PR of 4 (used to be 5 when I frequently updated it). I serve about 100k pages a month. According to a backlink checker I have 989 backlinks and an overture of 14462 (for the term 'ff', heh. 147 for 'ff.net').

Any thoughts on how I should procede further would be appreciated!

 

[Archangel]

Good for you

I never said he is a scammer and/or trying to rip-off anyone.

I did say he's looking for idiots
But, again, he may reply back with more legit offers.
You never know.

He's not a scammer. He and I did a lot of negotiations. He DID try to trade my lot for worthless domains, all of which (minus 26Q.com and YERX.com; they were the only 2 good ones he offered) I passed up. When I finish, my total profits should be around $1,500 at least. Not bad for a $250 investment. :D

Still, I'd ask him for a lot more with FF.net. I'd love to have that domain. Final Fantasy or 'fan fiction' would be great for it.

 

[dtr]

Acronym, Final Fantasy!!!