domain IWUY.com

[Markith]

picked up IWUY.com

appraisals are much appreciated

Thanks

 

[Kelli]

Oddly enough I was just saying this to another guy, 5 seconds ago. I never really understood the whole premimum letter word domains that the reseller market gets so excited about. To the end user it's either a word or it's not. In this case it's not and that lowers the value greatly on the end user market simply because it's not as easily brandable.

I think you would be hard pressed to find an invester willing to shell out the big bucks to brand a IWUY. No?

Google is a perfect example of a brandable word. Prior to the invention of the google search engine, who had heard of a Google? It wasn't really a word but a series of letters that made a good sounding word and that is what made it brandable and as such valuable.

 

[RegFee]

Kelli, people get excited about more things than brandability. That's just one aspect of the business. Sometimes companies that can't afford to shell out money for a "brandable" name choose to go the route of short vs. recognizable. SYXE.com looked like just another OK llll.com until it was developed into a free hosting service. I'm sure the owner paid either regfee or low $xx for the name at the time, and now, the name would probably only be worth a few hundred to the right person. That's still a relatively high ROI. Not everyone is looking to sell to big end users -- in fact, reseller-to-reseller sales are what keep the business afloat.