A friend of mine has a great domain name that would be excellent for a server support company.

But they want 5000 USD for it.

It would help if you posted the domain name!

Originally posted by blob2
It would help if you posted the domain name!

I second that :)

sorry, I left the domain name out on purpose.

I was just commenting on the 5000 dollar price tag. The actual domain name I didn't use because I do not know if they already have an interested party or not, or for all I know they have already sold it.

I can ask and find out the status of the name if anyone is interested.

Alrighty then...

The domain name is www.remotesupport.com.

I just talked to the owner of the domain, and they are lowering the price tag to $3000 USD.

If you visit the domain, the owners contact information is listed on the site, and I also have the owners phone number if anyone wants to call them directly.

I don't think this domain worth so much.
It worth $500 at max.

I personally agree, but hey, it isn't my domain.

I am just passing along information incase anyone wants it.

Not worth more than a few hundred. You can find good available domains with a little effort. I recently posted that eSupportDesk.com was available on these forums and somebody took it.

Tell your friend to drop an zero and he may get it sold. Domain names aren't as favourable anymore these days, people become more realistic and don't want to spend thousands of dollars on just a name. They are now more creative.
But good luck to your friend!

Jacco

$3K is definately too much. $500 would be a better price!

Wow!

$5,000 is too much let alone $3,000. Why not put another word together with "support" and pay $13.50?

LOL Let us know when it sells and how much it sales for.

hehe This is interesting! :stickout

Anyway.. why does he want soo much for that domain name? Whats soo big about that domain name?

I just ran it through some domain appraisal software I have in the planning stages of development and came up with an average price of $10 - a high of $20. Basically, this is not a premium domain.

maybe if it was just remote.com it would be worth a lil more :D

I think you guys are too critical. The name is good. About $200 or so, but it definately is not $5,000.

Andrew

I would probally only pay $250 or so on that domain. It is not close to being worth 5000 or 3000 Dollars..

Lata,
Ryan

So on the topic, what would be example domains that would be worth $5,000?

I have seen a company before that owns a lot of domains like rugby.com, vietnam.com, brazil.com, boxing.com, perfume.com and so on. But these are way above the five-grand level, are they not? More like $50,000 to $200,000 I would guess. I really would not know though.

I'm just trying to figure out what people are willing to pay $5,000 for.

Andrew

Personally I think $5000 is a fair price for the domain.

I would only pay $50. You haven't shown any statistics on that domains traffic at all. If there's no traffic, it's not worth the $500 nevertheless, $5,000. Get real. What makes it so good? :D

do a search on any search engine "remote support" and take your pick on any of the companies.

http://www.rss.net/
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/remotesupport/support.htm
http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/new_research/20011002_1/20011002.html

These are some taken from google. And if remote support is their business, they'll be willing to put a higher price tag on the domain.

I won't pay fifty hundreds for that name, someone might. I dont really know. But it doesn't really ring a bell when I read it.

Again, it is personal. Someone might think it is a good name.

id pay $50 for it possibly

I agree with the $10. Let's face it, guys. You can call your site 'peanutbuttersandwich.com' and it wouldn't make a difference. It's all got to do with your content and marketing.

If you'd pay $5,000 for that then i've got some land in Florida i'd like to sell you ;)

That's true. Why do you think a stupid name like Google is far more popular than for excample search.com or go.com? Because of the marketing and promotion they got...

And the fact that their search engine is actually pretty freaking awesome?

Originally posted by Samuel
And the fact that their search engine is actually pretty freaking awesome?

That too :D

If you sell this domain for $5.000, you will probably sell it to a company / person which have another $195.000 to build a great website and market it accordingly. The hard thing is to find that company. :)

i think its worth a few hundred max :stickout

this is not a multi dollar doamin...., i can offer $200 for this.

I just ran a domain search on almost 300 names with the word 'support' in it and over 220 were available which can be registered for $8.50 at godaddy.com

Personally I wouldn't pay $20 for the domain name but i'd consider paying something more than that if it had a profitable web site attached to it :)

Can't the owner of the name first develop a remote support solution (because someone who buy the name for for excample $2000 dollar, also needs to develop this) and then sell the whole package for a good price. This way the customer is not only buying for "just" the name.

Just my €0.02