Has anyone though of this?

[zaros64]

Say some newb is selling some random weirdo domain say, 1f54g.com and we all know that wouldn't get traffic.. so you go ahead and buy it for $50,000 then it gets all over the news etc,etc.. you place ads on it, and since its been all over the news you will get LOTS of traffic... hopefully over 1,000,000 uniques

Then you could sit back and relax with the revenue pouring in.. or tell a news company that you may be selling the domain for 50 cents then watch even more hits come in... more money will come flying in...

you may end up with 100,000 dollars...

maybe not..

what are your thoughts?

 

[cjcjcj]

Very interesting in theory. Problems would be the following I'd say:

1. Press wouldn't cover somthing unless the useless name was something like littleblueacorns.com I think aij2i.com (for example) would make for confusion.

2. A random page needs a definite topic and a source of income. $100k won't just pour in: with a PPC at 5cents a click you still need 2 million clicks out of the traffic you receive.

3. Traffic will be short lived unless there is a point to the site.

4. I want to see it in practie though so why not but my name StyleList.com for $45k (I have you a little discount)

 

[jon]

It would never work for obvious reasons.

 

[jeter4982]

It would never work for obvious reasons.

Ya, agreed... Not a :gn: , lol

 

[dweeb]

not exactly very feasible in my opinion.
firstly, you'll need loads of capital to start off with. and its rally rather risky to pay such a high price for a nonsensical domain.
secondly, i don't think many people would bother going to a site with a difficult-to-remember URL. unless they have the newspaper or whatever right next to them as they check it out.

I'm not too sure, but in my opinion, it simply can't work out.

 

[armstrong]

Its probably been done before, and would keep happening over and over. The way they cut their risk is to not actually buy the domain for real cash. Like that bogus beauty.cc sale - it must have generated tons of traffic during its peak. But the multi-million $ sale was a wash sale, meaning very little cash actually changed hands, and they were all in cahoots to simulate the sale just to get a PR boost. Of course, once you're caught in a lie, your online rep takes a nosedive.

 

[fish]

I would never consider doing that.

 

[iampud]

I think i rather take my chances using 50K to buy 6000+ domains in the hopes that one or a few gets me to 100K.
IMHO

 

[- me -]

It would never work for obvious reasons.

I think they sorta tried that with beauty.cc a while back. :hehe:

 

[primacomputer]

Well I don't think a $50k deal is going to get you all over the news. You'd probably need a sale in excess of $1M to get that kind of coverage. Any sale of that value is going to be researched before it gets any serious coverage. They'll take one look at the buyer, see it's bogus, and drop the story.

In addition, you wouldn't get 1M uniques from this even if it was a legit sale. You can use the sale as an excuse to get some free press, but if you don't combine this with a solid site launch you're going to get at best a few thousand one time visitors a day for a week, and be down to a few hits a day within no time.

 

[hanz]

hehe... nice thought, but I guess it wouldn't work

 

[zaros64]

what a bummer eh.. just an idea in my head though... I suppose anyone could get it to work but I don't have 50,000 bucks lol...

 

[slaughterbeck]

what a bummer eh.. just an idea in my head though... I suppose anyone could get it to work but I don't have 50,000 bucks lol...

I really don’t think anyone could get this to work simply on the basis of a seemingly misjudged domain evaluation. $50,000 just isn’t very sexy at all these days.