domain Please Appraise buycowbells.com

[cwalkem]

Only my second purchase...Tell me what you think.


I figure with big sporting events happening all the time theres a possibility this could bring in alot of traffic for various reasons....

Aside from how to buy a domain....i really donno much yet tho so this could be number 2 in the junk pile.



EDIT

Got thinking about it a bit more and the olympics are commin up in london here pretty quick....gonna be alot of interest in cowbells. Pulled this from a quick google search.

"Overall, 6.7 million tickets were sold for the 2000 Summer Games with 6 million of that coming in the Sydney area venues. That was 87% of all available tickets being sold, which at the time was an all-time record for the Olympics. Also, 5.5 million people visited Sydney Olympic Park during the entire Olympiad."


So even if .1% of those people were interested in cowbells...thats 67,000 people. (6.7 million tickets sold) then of course theres the people who didnt buy tickets (another 5.5 million or .1%=55,000)


Thats alot of potential for traffic if you ask me....and albiet the biggest thats still just one sporting event

 

[12345]

I consider this to be low $xx unless you can get some contracts with the NFL and NCAA to make team cowbells. Unless you got a heck of a lot of capital and/or some good connections in the cowbell industry, I would focus on something else. 5 or 6 months isn't a lot of time to get something like that off the ground...

 

[Bannen]

'Cowbells' gets only 2900 exact searches per month on Google, which is not a whole lot. So these are niche novelty items that get some searches but aren't a 'hot' item. Been around for a long time so I'm sure those search stats are stable.

'buy cowbells' gets 22 exact monthly searches. No value to this name; to get a site optimized so that you show up high on the search engines, against your competition, will take you a lot of work, since you're competing against wikipedia, cowbells.com, amazon, etc etc. And then even if you do all that work and get well-optimized - it's not a name that will bring you much traffic.

No resale or development value to this one, IMO. Would recommend dropping it and getting a refund if it isn't too late. Look for available names with much larger monthly searches, or that are shiningly brandable, or are about more in-demand items. Cowbells are fine and popular and I'm sure cowbells.com does good business... but there isn't much room in that keyword for a lot of secondary sites to make money. You would just make scraps.

Hang around the forum longer before investing your hard-earned shekels in domain regs, learn a little more. Look at the 'your reg of the day' thread to see what others are hand-regging; look at the 'report domain name sales here' thread to see what kinds of names are selling; look at the marketplace threads to see what kind of fresh regs people are buying and what they're realistically selling for to resellers; check out the 'available domain names' (see mine, in sig below) threads to see what kind of quality names we're all posting as available, and which of those names people seem to reg. Some people like Sdsinc and Yandig and Nameclerk post some fantastic domains still available to reg.

GL

Welcome to the forum

 

[johname]

I seen so many names many factors worst than this. Needs to go to an enduser and i am sure they exist. $xx good luck

 

[Ben42]

It needs more cowbell!
http://www.inspireddesignpioneering.com/pictures/myspace/funnies/morecowbell.gif

Definitively more of a market with the sports fans than for percussionists. Cowbells last forever.

Even with manufacturers this would probably be a very tiny niche of their overall business.

 

[johname]

Going noise maker is the wrong way in my opinion. Go where the passion is, antique cow bell collectors. Would probably have to get a bit of seo action going on it first. But it might be a good starter/learning project.