domain Help with domain value - tiu.com?

[Atticus Baker]

Hello, all!

I am the original registrar of this domain (since 1996) and was wanting to know if it has any value whatsoever. If so, how much? I have been contacted with various offers for it over the past several years, but never felt comfortable enough to sell it because I just don't know enough. I am told it might be quite valuable to Chinese site, for whom the word "tiu" has significance in both Cantonese and Mandarin (although I am unsure what the significance is). I don't want to sell it for too little and a I don't want to have an over-inflated opinion of what I might get, either.

Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[WINBJR]

What range were your offers in?

I say $xx,xxx+ depending on the meaning and the right end user.

 

[wudzzy]

iiu.com $22,200 8/17/2016

 

[gilescoley]

Welcome to NP

This is a great name and my advice would be to research all the meanings and get someone (who knows the Chinese market) to help you out with this. (eName.com and 4.cn are good starting points)

Its certainly a $50K plus name and could go to xxx,xxx if it has value in the Chinese market

Thread on previous LLL.com sales below

https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-lll-com-sales-report-discussion-thread.429599/page-137

I see in Google its a great acronym for Tone It Up as well (https://www.toneitup.com)

It looks like a common surname in China as well

Good luck with the name and if it all gets too much and you cant be bothered, let me know and I will take it off your hands for you.

 

[Atticus Baker]

What range were your offers in?

I say $xx,xxx+ depending on the meaning and the right end user.

Welcome to NP

This is a great name and my advice would be to research all the meanings and get someone (who knows the Chinese market) to help you out with this. (eName.com and 4.cn are good starting points)

Its certainly a $50K plus name and could go to xxx,xxx if it has value in the Chinese market

Thread on previous LLL.com sales below

https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-lll-com-sales-report-discussion-thread.429599/page-137

I see in Google its a great acronym for Tone It Up as well (https://www.toneitup.com)

It looks like a common surname in China as well

Good luck with the name and if it all gets too much and you cant be bothered, let me know and I will take it off your hands for you.

Thanks so much, everyone for your reponses -- I feel a LOT better for not selling the domain at $5,000!!

@WINBJR: Most of the offers I've received so far have been in the $1,500-$15,000 range, which I though might be a little low. Glad to know I made a wiser decision!

@gilescoley: This is great news, indeed! I checked out eName.com and 4.cn and they are very hard to read -- even in English. Is there a safe way to conduct transactions using these sites since they are located in China proper? Are they in Hong Kong by any chance (I've heard it still makes a difference).

Any ideas on how to market this so I can get top dollar? I appreciate any input/insight you might have.

 

[james haw]

Get a broker. Sure they'll take a cut, decent one too, but as you're not in the domain name market regularly etc, they'll probably get you a ton more for it than you could even with their cut factored in

Go to domainsherpa and have a poke around to see the different people who've done videos. Such as http://www.domainsherpa.com/domain-name-brokers/

Honestly, I'd not be in too much of a rush with this one. 3L.com are all pretty much gone and spoken for (in terms of sales, all were registered ages ago). If there are ties with Chinese meaning, then you could get higher 6 figures if the right people are made aware etc.

Good luck

 

[gilescoley]

These guys are a good place to start

http://guta.com/en/index.html (George Hong)

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2015/dailyposts/20150421.htm

http://domaingang.com/domain-news/c...ong-predictions-about-the-year-of-the-monkey/

http://www.thedomains.com/2015/09/19/george-hong-of-guta-com-brokers-dd-com-domain-name-sale/

 

[Atticus Baker]

Awesome! Thanks so very much. I'll start looking around for a good broker, it sounds like. I really appreciate the help and information