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[Cryptghost]

Hi

I am trying to find the best price for the domain,

It is a premium at $89 dollars a year, but I felt it was worth the reg fee as it would make a great name for a web builder/designer or a builders merchants.

While I appreciate that $89 dollars a year is expensive renewal fee to some, I think it could be cheap for the price.

I would appreciate your thoughts, I am looking at about $1500 dollars wholesale $2999 end user. Would appreciate your appraisal

 

[kite26]

I don't think it is a good choice and i will explain my opinion. First of all, it doesn't make good hack, because the better choice is ''i builder''. Even if you have ''i builder'', you wouldn't totally correct again, because the right is ''i am builder''. Without this meaning, it loses all of its power as domain. Also, .builders (?), i don't know this extension.

 

[Cryptghost]

Thank you for your detailed response,

 

[Brands.International]

I do not like it too..from investment point of view. The high renewal will cause 2 difficulties :
a) after 1 or 2 year of holding, you will probably have "enough" of the domain and will drop it
b) if you will discuss it with buyer, and they will ask "how much is the renewal" ..they will not like the answer in most cases.

If it would be really good combo for large online business, it can sustain larger renewal..but quality of this name does not justify the renewal.

So basically, I like the name, but I am not fond of that renewal. I mean, if you buy only few of these, you can maybe sustain it..but if you would like to create larger portfolio, these type of domains would made it impossible imo. It is all about math:

you feel (correctly imo) that domain can sell to end user for USD 3000
you pay renewal 100/year (i have rounded it)
probability of resale during 1 year time (1%)
you can hold it - lets imagine 10 years

So what math say?
Your holding cost during next 10 years : 1000 USD
Your selling equity during next 10 years : 3000*0.01.10 = 300 USD

300 is much less then 1000, which means it can never be profitable (on average).

If you ask from where I found probability of resale for such a name, it is because I know that typical turnover in quality gTLD portfolio is around 1% (if you hold 100 names, you will sell 1 name per year on average).

 

[James3]

My big problem with these crazy-long domain extensions is they don't look anything like domains.

If you put i.builder on a business card, literally nobody is going to recognize it as a url.

So you'll have to print: http://i.builder ... at which point you have a much longer domain... And it's still not recognizable by most domain illiterate people.

 

[Cryptghost]

thanks for the detailed responses, has given me a lot to consider and also some ideas on where I take this domain next,

Thank you, greatly appreciated!!!!

 

[Cryptghost]

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