domain Please Appraise sello.co

[just]

Please appraise sello.co - I thought it was pretty good because it's easily distinguishable from a .com because it rhymes.

 

[thetruman]

forget rhimes.... reg fee...

 

[Keith]

Zero $ IMO.

 

[emjohn]

Low-mid $xxxx.

"Sello" is Spanish for "postage stamp". .co for obvious reasons goes well with Spanish names. "Sello" is also very close to "Sellos" which is a category definer on Spanish Ebay.

If you know where this can be found for reg. fee, please let me know...

 

[johname]

i dont see the com net org mx using theirs as a stamp site, needs more research. 2.5 times reg fee is what i am feeling, good luck

 

[just]

Thanks for the appraisal johname. Good point you make, although I think emjohn is inferring that the .co extension reinforces the meaning of sello being stamp in spanish.

 

[DU]

Thanks for the appraisal johname. Good point you make, although I think emjohn is inferring that the .co extension reinforces the meaning of sello being stamp in spanish.

When evaluating appraisals you should also consider the evaluators.

Johname has appraised many many names and probably favors .com/.net/.org

emjohn is currently active in the .co forum and is extremely bullish on .co

You may find the truth somewhere between the extremes but it's a very young extension so no one knows. I don't find sello to be all that attractive within what people are looking .co (company).

With spanish names sometimes you should use google in that country:

google.es
google.co (Oh wait, there isn't one) it's at www.google.com.co (the extension you don't hear about in the .co forum)

You can also look at the keyword tool making sure that the settings are "spanish" for how it is used in searches.

There's not a lot of ads going on.

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Re: emjohn's comment - how would I go about marketing sello.co to someone interested in spanish names?

That's one of the difficulties I have mentioned in the .co forum.

If you are going to see .co as colombia - you're going to find it much easier to sell domains if you're fluent in Spanish... and not Spain Spanish - but Colombian Spanish.

 

[emjohn]

When evaluating appraisals you should also consider the evaluators.

Johname has appraised many many names and probably favors .com/.net/.org

emjohn is currently active in the .co forum and is extremely bullish on .co

You may find the truth somewhere between the extremes but it's a very young extension so no one knows. I don't find sello to be all that attractive within what people are looking .co (company).

With spanish names sometimes you should use google in that country:

google.es
google.co (Oh wait, there isn't one) it's at www.google.com.co (the extension you don't hear about in the .co forum)

You can also look at the keyword tool making sure that the settings are "spanish" for how it is used in searches.

There's not a lot of ads going on.

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That's one of the difficulties I have mentioned in the .co forum.

If you are going to see .co as colombia - you're going to find it much easier to sell domains if you're fluent in Spanish... and not Spain Spanish - but Colombian Spanish.

I would also consider the evaluator, especially if it's someone who mudslings or is trying to protect his/her portfolio.

Who cares what .com,.net, .mx , .com.co or .org are doing? IMO, sello.co is worth more than sello.com. Great Spanish keyword in the right extension. I know who the guy is that owns sello.com, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't sell it for less than mid $xxxx. If I was him, I wouldn't either.

Bullish? Come on Default. I wouldn't say coming to the defense of something (ie warding off mudslinging) is exactly bullish. In that case I am also "bullish" .com and bearish .net. Therefore should I give no appraisals at all? Should I give every .net a 0-Reg Fee? If you think you are objective, think again.

This isn't exactly speculation here. The .co registry is a company and I support that, especially against mudslinging.

Where do you keep getting these specious arguments? Colombian Spanish has some dialectical differences from Spain Spanish but the foundation, within its Latin roots, are the same. You don't have to speak Spanish (and certainly not the dialect of Colombian Spanish) in order to sell domains. I've made cold calls all over the place and ya know what? Most companies in the world have someone in the office that speaks English. As a matter of fact, it's been that way for at least 15 years.

Hey Just. Maybe you got a little lucky there with your domain because you didn't know it stood for something significant in Spanish. You may have better luck with taking the "sell" angle if you don't want to market it via the "stamp" angle. If you take the "sell" angle, if you hold on, you might get mid $xxx (take it for what it's worth).

 

[DU]

I would also consider the evaluator, especially if it's someone who mudslings or is trying to protect his/her portfolio.

Who cares what .com,.net, .mx , .com.co or .org are doing? IMO, sello.co is worth more than sello.com. Great Spanish keyword in the right extension. I know who the guy is that owns sello.com, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't sell it for less than mid $xxxx. If I was him, I wouldn't either.

Bullish? Come on Default. I wouldn't say coming to the defense of something (ie warding off mudslinging) is exactly bullish. In that case I am also "bullish" .com and bearish .net. Therefore should I give no appraisals at all? Should I give every .net a 0-Reg Fee? If you think you are objective, think again.

This isn't exactly speculation here. The .co registry is a company and I support that, especially against mudslinging.

Where do you keep getting these specious arguments? Colombian Spanish has some dialectical differences from Spain Spanish but the foundation, within its Latin roots, are the same. You don't have to speak Spanish (and certainly not the dialect of Colombian Spanish) in order to sell domains. I've made cold calls all over the place and ya know what? Most companies in the world have someone in the office that speaks English. As a matter of fact, it's been that way for at least 15 years.

Hey Just. Maybe you got a little lucky there with your domain because you didn't know it stood for something significant in Spanish. You may have better luck with taking the "sell" angle if you don't want to market it via the "stamp" angle. If you take the "sell" angle, if you hold on, you might get mid $xxx (take it for what it's worth).

I said consider the evaluators. I didn't say ignore.

I consider your position extremely bullish.

"IMO, sello.co is worth more than sello.com"

Really? If the point is to target Colombia with the Spanish then I personally would prefer .com.co to the .co

Nothing I've said is controversial. My point was to point out that there were likely two extremes in appraisal and that neither should be taken as gospel and neither should be ignored. And if you want to argue that the .co future is cemented as brilliant - go ahead but I think that's unfair in an appraisal right now.

I said that it would be easier to sell Spanish domains in Colombia if you knew Colombian Spanish - not impossible. I've already seen people with domains that mean one thing in Spanish but aren't the preferred term in Colombia: what's the preferred term for car, for plumber? In Spain? In Colombia?

It's clear *now* that the OP isn't a Spanish domain trader and just happened on a fairly strong Spanish term.
I don't think it's a $0 and I don't believe it's a $X,XXX. I think it's somewhere in between low-mid $XXX right now.

 

[johname]

i dont see the com net org mx using theirs as a stamp site, needs more research. 2.5 times reg fee is what i am feeling, good luck

"needs more research" means the domain owner needs to research even deeper than people on this board are willing to go even if they are trying hard to prove a point. I have seen too many times on here when somebody says a foreign name means "xyz" in English then later on find out it was either way off or that it close but not "the bomb" sello.mx is not a stamp site which makes me cautious, and as deep as ill dig on this, hence my valuation. BUT the way domaining is if you convince enough people that you own Stamps.Com in the Republic of Colombia (.co) someone will give you low xxx for it.

 

[emjohn]

Actually, I would say that's more than a "fairly" strong keyword. How often do you come across a keyword that is a category on Ebay in a credible extension? Not very often. Thus the low$xxxx- mid$xxxx appraisal for the awesome keyword.

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"needs more research" means the domain owner needs to research even deeper than people on this board are willing to go even if they are trying hard to prove a point. I have seen too many times on here when somebody says a foreign name means "xyz" in English then later on find out it was either way off or that it close but not "the bomb" sello.mx is not a stamp site which makes me cautious, and as deep as ill dig on this, hence my valuation. BUT the way domaining is if you convince enough people that you own Stamps.Com in the Republic of Colombia (.co) someone will give you low xxx for it.

i'm not sure I quite understand your point. If you are suggesting people do their due diligence, I agree. For me, I KNOW what sello means and have known it for a very long time. I don't care that sello.mx is taken or not (it's actually on sale at Sedo). I'm starting to get the feeling that some people are so obsessed with .com and the English language that they forget all the other languages and extensions available.

For example, you can see that a German company would rather have a German word for the .de extension for obvious reasons. Ask any German company if they prefer bilder.de (pictures), bilder.com or bilder.co. They will choose bilder.de. Ask if they would prefer bilder.de, pictures.com or pictures.co, they will pick bilder.de (assuming they are not domain investors).

I think the point is clear why sello.co has great value in the Spanish language world.

 

[just]

Hi all, I appreciate everyone's insight and appraisal of this domain; it's stirred a lot more conversation than I expected having not realised its potential.

I think I will have to reconsider whether I still set it up as a 'sell' site as originally planned or if it is better to pursue the 'sello' stamp option.

Cheers.