Out of curiosity I was wondering how much the hostingtalk.com domain would cost and I decided to email the owner. I expected the price to be anywhere from $5,000 on up to $10,000. It turns out that the owner of the site feels his domain is worth alot more.

Can you guess what he quoted me? It was enough to laugh for a good while.

$2,000,000?

Originally posted by hysteriaweb
Out of curiosity I was wondering how much the hostingtalk.com domain would cost and I decided to email the owner. I expected the price to be anywhere from $5,000 on up to $10,000. It turns out that the owner of the site feels his domain is worth alot more.

Can you guess what he quoted me? It was enough to laugh for a good while.
With WHT selling for some 6 figures (with the site/forum, of course), I honestly don't think asking a fraction of that ridiculous. Esp. if the owner does NOT actively seek to sell the domain, quoting a higher price will fend off unsolicited offers.

EDIT: Moreover, it can be argued that hostingtalk.com is a *better* domain than webhostingtalk.com.

My guess is about 1M

2,000,000
or
200,000

AND George owns ht.com as well, so ... :D

700 members with 700 posts worth 2,000,000 or 200,000????
HAHAHA

More like $2000 at the most.

Just me but you are giving this domain way too much worth. Inet didn't pay for webhostingtalk.com because it was a good domain, they bought it because of the community behind it. If webhostingtalk had these stats like the one mentioned above:

Our members have made a total of 772 posts
We have 714 registered members
The newest member is Cheeseman
Most users ever online was 230 on Nov 13 2003, 10:06 PM

I don't think INet would have even been slightly interested.

Originally posted by Ramprage
700 members with 700 posts worth 2,000,000 or 200,000????
HAHAHA

More like $2000 at the most.

He said it was a ridiculous price. :rolleyes:

i wouldn't pay any near 4 fitures for that forum :P

Are we talking Canadian dollars here? ;)

The content isnt worth all that much. If the figure was too high you could use the funds, instead, to start fresh and then promote a new forum to gain just as many posts in a very short space of time.

However..

hostingtalk.com and ht.com as domains are worth something, thats for sure ;)

oh yeah! didn't notice that :)

he owns them both

ht.com alone worth 20 - 50K in reseller market and can go as high as 6 figures easily.

I own the aforementioned hostingtalk.com. I always find it funny when people come and expect to get domains for free.

These are the same people who come to me saying they're poor college students starting a music club, and want to buy my Jukebox.com for $100. :)

If I have a business plan for a domain, and the domain is essential to executing that plan (because it goes perfectly with my HT.com), should I give it away for free?

I agree with bashars estimates. I think the ht.com name is probably what is worth the most.

He quoted me $200,000 for the domain! That means immolo wins! As far as it being worth that, I highly doubt that. Maybe ht.com but not hostingtalk.com I could register hstngtalk.com and develop a community based upon that domain and make a profit each month instead of going $200,000 into debt!

If one made an extra $100/day, due to a great domain name, that pays for itself in a few years.

A lot of folks invest their money in bad domains, and then leak traffic to better ones.

Originally posted by GeorgeK
A lot of folks invest their money in bad domains ...
Very true. ;)

Still it comes down to what most people say...

A domain is worth what the future owner want to pay for it... it's his view on the domain's future, right?

but stories like these are good... to keep things relative... :)

Originally posted by sbdquinten
A domain is worth what the future owner want to pay for it...
Very much like his mom is a woman and the sun rises in the east ... :D

yeah yeah yeah...

a rose is a rose is a rose [hemingway]

some things are just logical. (i guess)

Ridiculing one's asking price won't get you the domain a penny cheaper. Instead, get educated on the market value of domains with broad marketshare.

whoa! $200,000 for a domain????

$100 Filling space

creditcards.com just been sold for $2,750,000 :D

http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Not everything is for sale, some people actually develop domains and unless you offer a 'ridiculous' price they won't give it up. I know I certainly won't give up some of my domains that I want to develop. I also agree that making fun of the asking price, while amusing (on occassion), won't get you anywhere.