poll Travel.Agency what will it sell for

[betthelot]

Travel.agency has to be one of the most relevant new gTLDs and therefore one would expect it to be one of the most valuable. It has 110,000 exact match searches per month on Google.
The question is what would the name now sell for?
I’m going to estimates in today's market it will sell for $7000
I think the downside of this name is that travel agencies use brands and not keywords. Keywords have lost favour over the last few years due to Google's change in the search algorithm.
Interested to see what other members think it will sell for and why and seeing who is the closet.
Also think it will be sold to a domainer and not to an end-user. And at $7000 I think there will be little upside when trying to remarket it to an end user.

 

[Flipsbay]

Just added another year of registration for the bidders. 16 months total now.
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So you use more then one account, i am sure you don't keep your 5L on this account as it says 2936 domains only

 

[Fancy.domains]

This.

I wish Ali all the best, however, this is not a 5 or 6-figure domain.

I strongly believe it will be within 5-10 years.

Like always, time will tell...

 

[S-B]

I strongly believe it will be within 5-10 years.

Like always, time will tell...

Unfortunately, it's not a 10 year auction.

 

[gemstar]

Unfortunately, it's not a 10 year auction.

Lol!

 

[Fancy.domains]

Unfortunately, it's not a 10 year auction.

True, but it will have a brand new owner when it's finished.

For this specific auction, my guess is a low 5-fig: $12,200.

 

[Willox Perez]

I believe that if a company/developer decides to buy a domain of this magnitude, then they should have no problem seeing $41.58/mo as much of an expense. Especially when compared to all the other expenses a business requires to operate properly.

Truth! Expense is part of business. I never got into the new GTLDs but I do believe the right way to go about is with those solid word and domain extension combinations. This goes with many other extensions. Taco Bell bought Ta.Co and Join.Me is quite popular just to name a few.

The auction is already up to 4k so looks like it will surpass the 7k mark without a doubt =-D

- Will

 

[Premium gTLD]

This.

I wish Ali all the best, however, this is not a 5 or 6-figure domain.

Shane, do you care to make a wager that this doesn't sell for 5 figures?

 

[Premium gTLD]

Why would anyone sell their domain on Flippa unless they are desperate for cash?
I assume Ali Zandi has a lot of contacts?
Why settle for a (crappy) reseller marketplace?
"scratches head*

That's a good question. The real immediate value in this name would be for an end user already in this space, and there are STILL hundreds of "Travel Agency" businesses who live and die online and most of them have no idea that this domain is for sale. Hopefully Ali does some direct outreach to them as well.

 

[JB Lions]

As far as why send to Flippa, I'm guessing the auction format is part of it. Has a lot of watchers, 15 different bidders already. Besides the people that normally use Flippa, contact end users and you just need 2 or more that really want it (and have money) for a bidding war, driving the price up. I'm sure you can contact each individually and go back and forth with email but you don't get those competitive juices going that an auction would get you.

 

[168]

I think this domain will end up being sold WELL in excess of $50k

Let say for example, I owned a leading travel agency turning over a few million dollars per year. Dropping $50-$100k on a superbly brand-able domain like this wouldn't be a tall ask at all.

I'm sure that once some of the larger travel agencies get wind of this sale they could end up starting a bidding war.

I REALLY and sincerely hope that this is the case for Ali and he ends up selling it for a ridiculous amount of money after a bidding war between a few of the Travel Agency giants....

Good luck with your sale mate!

**Yikes, just noticed Ali has over $737k transactions on Flippa in the last 2 years!*** LEGENDARY Dude!!! Nicely done

ditto.
In this case it's worth more than the .com 100k+ Can't wait to see what you come up with that's better than letting this one go
Cheers!

 

[DnEbook]

Interesting, we would say "going to a Travel Agent" before agency ..... admittedly it is self branding

 

[betthelot]

Interesting, we would say "going to a Travel Agent" before agency ..... admittedly it is self branding

travel agent is the employee who will serve you, travel agency is the company - I get your point, be interesting to see which gets more exact searches

 

[168]

I think of Concierge services (broad scope) for Travel.Agency
I think of Booking assistant for Travel Agent.

 

[DnEbook]

I can only share the variation of how people use terms, of course I do know what a travel agency is, but in Australia I suggest the term Travel Agent may be the more common, however we would say Advertising Agency over Agent ,,,, different strokes different folks. Some terms/words do not crossover as well. I would never have a "centre" domain name because depending on where you are it can mean "middle" It did make me wonder why the renewal cost was not listed in the initial auction listing. That cannot help the New Gtld cause in my view. Perhaps this will be the one that gets developed and alerts the critical mass to the new Gtld's?

 

[Ali]

Why would anyone sell their domain on Flippa unless they are desperate for cash?
I assume Ali Zandi has a lot of contacts?
Why settle for a (crappy) reseller marketplace?
"scratches head*

As opposed to reaching out to everyone individually, I chose to create a no reserve auction, and invite all of the potential buyers to it. If the auction was made public enough, then anyone who would find interest in it, could appreciate the opportunity to acquire it. And being that it is a no-reserve auction, they know it's not a waste of their time.

 

[BrandClub.com]

Travel.agency can be compared to TravelAgency.com but also to Travel.com as the domain keyword is TRAVEL (AGENCY is the extention). In our opinion this domain is less valuable than "Travel.com" but more valuable than "TravelAgency.com" as it is shorther and only one word domain name. Estibot valuation for TravelAgency.com is $290,000 USD so Travel.agency may be worth more than that ... the problem is, people need time to see value in "NEW" oportunities ...
(many years ago when the domain KING bought S_X.com for $47K everybody tought he was crazy; last year when he sold it for $8,888,888.88 USD everybody thought it was a crazy sale )

My mistake guys, sorry ... I was talking about P_ _ _ O.com ; bought for $47K and sold for $8,888,888.88 USD by domain King I don´t know why I wrote S_X.com

 

[168]

I can only share the variation of how people use terms, of course I do know what a travel agency is, but in Australia I suggest the term Travel Agent may be the more common, however we would say Advertising Agency over Agent ,,,, different strokes different folks. Some terms/words do not crossover as well. I would never have a "centre" domain name because depending on where you are it can mean "middle" It did make me wonder why the renewal cost was not listed in the initial auction listing. That cannot help the New Gtld cause in my view. Perhaps this will be the one that gets developed and alerts the critical mass to the new Gtld's?

Some terms/words do not crossover as well. Good point.

I agree the up charge on renewal fees doesn't help nTld's. I think the registrars are wrong about this. I look forward to stats on renewals for these types.
.com fees came down over time.

 

[Haroon Basha]

Travel.Agency, no doubt a name to be cherished, a name to be hold, till it gets its real value, that is above fifty thousand dollars.
Good Luck to the new owner of this apt domain name.

 

[168]

As opposed to reaching out to everyone individually, I chose to create a no reserve auction, and invite all of the potential buyers to it. If the auction was made public enough, then anyone who would find interest in it, could appreciate the opportunity to acquire it. And being that it is a no-reserve auction, they know it's not a waste of their time.

Inviting end users to auction is a great idea to demonstrate interest and value "without having to explain". I would have liked to see it at a "higher end" auction platform. Each auction platform has it's strengths point of view. Still hoping to see Flippa + Travel.Agency as the top sale for the month !
Cheers

 

[betthelot]

In your opinion ...

We are on BrandClub.com as we could not register/acquire Brand.club

TravelAgency.com is a 2 words domain name.
Travel.agency is a 1 word domain name and is 3 characteres shorter !
Travel.agency can be compared to TravelAgency.com but also to Travel.com ...
Not so valuable as Travel.com but definitelly more valuable than TravelAgency.com

oh dear if you think travel.agency is worth more than travelagency.com, just because it is three characters shorter. No one says Travel DOT Agency it is natural to say travel agency and therefore in its basic form it is a hack. Then there are many reasons why an Established TLD will always be worth more than a new gTLD for the same term, UNLESS IT BECOMES ESTABLISHED which is looking less likely ever day