domain ipostocks.com

[javawzl]

Yesterday I threw out what.com for appraisal .. today I throw out ipostocks.com which has been sitting idle for years. Turns out it has a page rank of 4/10 and has a decent sampling in Keyword Discovery.

 

[ManicMe]

It's a great domain for initial public offerings. Only problem now is that just about ever single finance site you can thing of has ipo alerts, feeds, update's etc, etc.

So even with that name there's a lot of competition out there, especially from the big ones.. Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet.com, MotelyFools, etc, etc...

Not to mention every online broker account adds IPO sections and updates right in their member account areas.

If you don't mind me asking... why wait to be so late in the game w/ a domain like this?

It still has great value as a keyword/keyphrase domain. I just think that you could have gotten X times more for it if you dev'd or sold a while ago.

 

[verbster]

I'm surprised "ipo stocks" only had 65k returns on Google. Thought it would have been more. I think it's a name a brokerage would pay a bundle for, but would drop quickly to others. Would be fun to see it with a stock feed.

 

[ManicMe]

I'm surprised "ipo stocks" only had 65k returns on Google. Thought it would have been more. I think it's a name a brokerage would pay a bundle for, but would drop quickly to others. Would be fun to see it with a stock feed.

The reason is that the term "IPO Stocks" used be HUGE 10 years ago, everyone wanted to get in on hot up and coming high flying tech stocks. Now most IPO's lose share value from their inititial public offering price shortly after going public.

Also, if you check OVT for "IPO's" you will see the results are less than flattering, this is because everyone into stocks already knows where to look for IPO's and have no need to search for them. All 99% of investors have to do is log into the brokerage account and all the IPO info this need is a click away.

Not too many years ago this domain would have been a HUGE sell. Right now I don't see it worth anything more than a forum community site for IPO discussion. Just some of my IMHO.

 

[verbster]

The reason is that the term "IPO Stocks" used be HUGE 10 years ago, everyone wanted to get in on hot up and coming high flying tech stocks. Now most IPO's lose share value from their inititial public offering price shortly after going public.

Also, if you check OVT for "IPO's" you will see the results are less than flattering, this is because everyone into stocks already knows where to look for IPO's and have no need to search for them. All 99% of investors have to do is log into the brokerage account and all the IPO info this need is a click away.

Not too many years ago this domain would have been a HUGE sell. Right now I don't see it worth anything more than a forum community site for IPO discussion. Just some of my IMHO.

On the other hand "IPO" gets 55 million Google returns. Although the tech ipo rush has diminished, ip offerings are still fairly popular (though maybe more selective), especially when involving companies like Google.

Not sure about, "Now most IPO's lose share value from their inititial public offering price shortly after going public." Hard to believe over 50% of current offerings drop below the intial price within a month ("shortly"?) as this is contrary to the underwriting strategies for brokerages. I'd guess it may be more true for low-cost unknown stocks...then again, I haven't researched it, so maybe it is true.

In any case, I still think it has value to those in the business. Good luck.