domain Truthiness.com

[YourIdealDomain]

Hi. I have recently bought the domain "Truthiness.com". Though, I will not have possession of the domain until PayPal has finished processing the echeck payment which should be sometime this week or next week.

"Truthiness" was popularized by Stephen Colbert and was discussed by him on the first episode of The Colbert Report on October 17th, 2005 as well as on many episodes after that. Since then, it has been voted "Word of the Year" by The American Dialect Society and also by Merriam-Webster.

According to Wikipedia, the term has been discussed in many mainstream media publications including; The Washington Post, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, the Associated Press, Editor & Publisher, Salon, The Huffington Post, and Chicago Reader, ABC's Nightline, CBS's 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The New York Times.

This domain has never been developed and visitors have never been tracked. It is currently being used to redirect visitors to another domain that is for sale by the current owner. So assume no traffic or revenue.

I assume that this domain is no longer worth the amount that it would have been worth when it was at the height of its popularity, but does anybody have an opinion as to how much this domain could be worth now?

Thanks

 

[DomainHouse]

What do you see as the potential commercial uses for the site? News perhaps?

 

[YourIdealDomain]

Some uses for the site that I can think of are;

Colbert Report/Stephen Colbert fan site or a site that sells merchandise based on Stephen Colbert or the Colbert Report

Blog

News Site

Forums

Wiki Site(there is already a successful site called Wikiality.com based on another word that was created by Stephen Colbert and has over 12,000 user generated Google-indexed pages)




Also, the term Truthiness gets 1,050,000 results in Google

 

[Marck]

Doesn't Colbert have right of publicity for this word? What did you pay for it?

 

[DomainMagnate]

Colbert rocks :D

I was considering to buy it a while back, just cause I like The Colbert Report so much. but then figured it's not really worth it. Although i think there should be some traffic and it has some historical/publicity value.. Reseller price isn't high though, but keep it

Only use i can think of is make some fan site about Colbert.

high overture:
stephen colbert 1,321.7 /day

 

[Brujah]

Nice! http://www.wikiality.com/ is a great site. Maybe you could do something with them?

I'm guessing High $xxx to Mid $x,xxx without knowing much about the traffic, etc.

 

[sashas]

find a Colbert fan (there are tons of them, just haunt the IMDB Stephen Colbert forums for a while and publicize this domain in your keyword). Colbert fans are generally 20+ college grads/professionals. Many of them are well off and wont mind such a vanity item.

great word. Love Colbert...

 

[zand_stein]

They are all right they all covered what I also think