Do you think this is a decent domain?

Bes · 28 Dec 2009 at 22:19

Hi,

A few years ago I registered http://www.re-vu.net as a domain name, and had a little site on it for a while.

The site is gone now, but I still hold the domain.

Recently I noticed that re-vu.com and re-vu.co.uk had both become available and decided to pick them up.

I don't know what I am going to do with these domains (Apart from use them for mail/ hosting my own pics/ etc for now), but do you think these domains are actually good or of any value at all?

Thanks.

cb_linus · 29 Dec 2009 at 00:14

They seem to be enough value for you to pick them up - are you hoping to sell them on for a profit? If not, I would just choose a domain I was happy with and not worry about it.

Tr Insanity · 29 Dec 2009 at 00:31

Sounds a bit like "Review" so a reviewing site might buy them ?

cb_linus · 29 Dec 2009 at 00:35

^I was thinking about that, but then I thought of 'google' - who would have thought it was a search engine site back when it first started? Google's reputation as a seacrh engine comes from the actual product and not the name I would've thought. So I fail to see how a site that has a name that is a bit like 'review' is any better or worse than any of the already existing review sites out there.

Bes · 29 Dec 2009 at 02:39

Not thinking of selling... I bought it as I liked the sound of it, and needed somewhere for emails and files.. but now i have it just wondering if there in fact any value to it really.

BloodyL · 29 Dec 2009 at 04:26

Do you mean resale value?, from what I've picked up in here from previous questions is that the resale value is entirely dependant on the value of the site you build upon that domain, not the domain itself.
In other words, if you buy up xyzwidgets.co.uk and just slap a "hello world" type homepage on there and then XYZ widgets approaches you to buy the domain from you, you cannot ask for £250k for the domain because that is what it is worth to them.
You would only be able to charge what it is worth to you, in this case, bugger all because there is nothing of worth being built up on the site itself.

If you want the rest of the domains because you like them, go for it, but don't expect to make any money from selling them on unless you can build a respected and valuable resource on those domains.

EDIT:

To cover the point about squatters, they make their money through advertising and click throughs, then when you approach them, they value the domain based on how much money the site has provided them via those ads and click throughs, so unless you want to become one of the most despised populace online (cyber ******) it's not worth the hassle, just buy the domain for what you need, not what you *could* make from it.