domain thanks

[craighwk]

I registered bpm.org back in 1998 as a personal website to host DJ mixes that I made. I'm no longer in the "business" and have no use for the domain. Traffic was never great, as I didn't put much time or effort into getting up the ranks of search results. I think it was anywhere from 200-400 visitors a day. Never really paid much attention, to be honest.

BPM has various usages, but primarily it stands for Beats Per Minute, which is a popular term that relates to the speed of a dance music song. Obviously it can also be used for heart rate monitoring and I suppose you could throw in Business Process Management into the mix. Ideally, this domain would be used for DJs, dance music producers, or any organization who specializes in the industry.

I've done several online domain appraisals and they are all over the place. Some say $600, the majority say $5000 (including GoDaddy), and some even go upwards of $15,000. I really don't know what to believe, although I'd be kidding myself to think it's worth anything on that high end. I'm looking to see what some of you think, as I have little (really none) experience with domain selling.

 

[domainscp]

Low x,xxx range, maybe more if you can show that it is getting traffic to it

 

[Charles Sweeney]

.org looks like a charity or some sort of non-profit organisation so I can't see this having much commercial value. Which commercial venture uses .org? As soon as I see .org I think it's a charity site. And if a charity was interested would you sell it to them or give it to them for free?

On the plus side it's short and means something to drummers but I can't see what it would be used for.

I think your best bet would be to sell it to a fellow domainer.

 

[craighwk]

Thanks for the reponses.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Thanks for the reponses. Just sold it for $4,000.

Nice. Good price.

 

[iowadawg]

I think this was just a joke thread.

 

[craighwk]

Not sure what the joke would be. I came here looking for pricing ideas and I happened to get a buyer yesterday.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Not sure what the joke would be. I came here looking for pricing ideas and I happened to get a buyer yesterday.

WHOIS updated yesterday.

 

[craighwk]

Correct. I had BPM FOR SALE in the Organization field, as well as a forsaleATdomain contact address. I wanted to update them to reflect the sale. The payment is going through escrow at the moment, so the buyer hasn't taken control yet.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Personally I wouldn't announce the sale until the escrow process had completed. Yes, if the buyer has made his/her payment to escrow it's as good as done but I'm a bit superstitious about it!

 

[craighwk]

Good point.