domain WinesOfIsrael.com

[jlw]

Just got a $100 offer at URLCollection.com. This is much less than what I thought it should go for. Israeli Wine is big profitable industry. I figured about $750-$950 for WinesOfIsrael.com.

I'm asking what people here think it's worth, before I take action on the offer. Unfortunately, URLcollection doesn't seem to have a mechanism for counteroffering; just pushbuttons to either accept or deline.

Thanks for your attention.

---J.

 

[01wojtowicz]

IO dont see much value, to be honest i have never heard of isralei wines, but maybe thats jsut in britain, over here its mainly californian , australian and italian etc.

 

[jlw]

Israeli Wines

IO dont see much value, to be honest i have never heard of isralei wines, but maybe thats jsut in britain, over here its mainly californian , australian and italian etc.

Israel produces thirty-five million (35,000,000) bottles of fine table wine each year. That's not counting the much larger volume of sweet sacramental wines, nor is that counting the brandy and liqueurs. There are forty thousand dunams (twenty thousand acres) under grape cultivation. The fine wine segment of the industry is growing 5% to 10% each year.

There are more than 120 wineries scattered throughout every part of the country. The finest of the wineries are: Yarden, Castel, Flam, Amphorae, Margalit, Dalton, Saslove, Galil Mountain, Tzora, and Recanati. The largest wineries --- those producing over two million bottles annually --- are Barkan, Binyamina, Carmel, and Efrat.

For more information, see "Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines" (ISBN 1 59264 087 7).

---J.

 

[primacomputer]

There are dozens of countries that produce more wine than Israel, including Slovakia, Albania, Bosnia, and Japan. Many of these (including all these listed here) have available .coms in the form of WinesOf?????.com. I don't see any major value in this name based on the volume of wine produced in the country. Any value of the name comes from the word Israel.

If this is the first offer you've had in five years then I'd say that's all you should reasonably expect out of it. You can always hang on to it for another five years and hope for a higher offer. That's really a call you'll have to make.

That said, personally I think any name that's not a random combination of words/characters is worth more than $100 to end end user. As with any name it mainly comes down to who wants it. If you're dealing with a business they can always afford $500. They may choose not to but that's just a bad decision. Even a relatively small company can afford $5k for a name that really fits their business.

The question really shouldn't be what domain speculators think it's worth, but what the buyers budget is.

 

[gingeman]

$100 is not a bad offer for this domain. There is this guy you might want to approach before you accept : http://www.namepros.com/domain-names-wanted/190572-wine-domain-s-required.html but I think that if it were my name I would take the money. I agree with what's been said already, if you have a genuine end user you might try for a little more, but its not a bad offer, unless you intend to set up your own website distributing israeli wines globally...