Domain Name sold for $18000.00

Close but no cigar
Welcome to the world of owning domain names as investments.

Hi my name is Logic and this story shares a tail of a domain name that sold for good money only the name was not in our portfolio of domain names.

SteakKnives.com sells for $18000.00

SteakKnife.com
So close but yet so far away, we have owned SteakKnife.com since 1999 as the singular version of the domain name that sold for 18k this week.

SteakKnives.com was bought originally in 2004
So this is a newer domain name and the age of a domain name weighs in on search engine trust this is when the search engines value site for its domain name as a small part of the overall rating each site ion the Internet receives from all search engines.

A look at search engine traffic for each name
We will share what we do to determine the value of a domain name from within our portfolio. This is the simple way to check the popularity of a domain name using your basic search engine then we will run the two names through our monthly traffic for the search term “Steak Knives” and “Steak Knife”.

Starting with the search engines anyone can do this for free and it is easy just go to your favorite search engine type in the term you want and then look up into the right hand side of the page to see how popular the search term is this is going to share with you how many pages on the Internet have the words in it. 

Search results for Steak Knives returns 248,000 pages found.
Search results for Steak Knife returns 352,000 pages found.

Now we will utilize our keyword tool to see the actual popularity, the number of people actually types these two domain names into their search box across all search engines globally each month.

Research for Steak Knives is reporting less then 10 searches per month.
Research for Steak Knife is reporting less then 10 searches per month.

Let’s look at what this means for the value of each name
Before we dive into values based on domain name popularity we thought enough to look at one of the keywords of each domain name the word “Knives” and “Knife” to see the monthly global searches for each.

Research for Knives is reporting 279,000 searches per month.
Research for Knife is reporting 342,000 searches per month.

Domain Name Values
Looking at the data above these names both would require a fair amount of search engine optimization (SEO) and promotion to bring any true value to the owner of these names.

It is not unusual to sell a domain name to a buyer simply because they want it for their own dream or plan, for example our domain name SteakKnife.com could be developed into a restaurant site or a dining critic site. The possibilities are endless and in fact you can see from our basic research that SteakKnife.com is a more popular domain name then the SteakKnives.com domain name that sold this week.

Domain Names you cannot start anything without them

Domain Names that make money
Welcome back to Logic’s wild world of domain names and some crazy ways that domain names can make you money.

Look at our own Logic Talk blog it makes no money, or does it?
Actually it does and Logic will explain the indirect ways that might not be so obvious to the reader but the search engines know exactly what I am doing and why I am doing it.

There are four things we are doing with our blog and we will share them with you, maybe you will get an idea or two about something you can do better then Logic, or better perhaps you will share your thoughts with us so we can provide better informative information to our readers.

Everything we have built started with a domain name
Each link in this article requires a domain name, something to think about.

Logic Money Maker 1
Viper Mailer a full support, do it yourself email-marketing service
We write a lot on this blog about how apply email-marketing to your business, nonprofit or membership group and how to begin an email-marketing campaign and there is a lot of tips and techniques to achieve great business growth and success.

Logic Money Maker 2
Viper Gate a full support managed web site hosting service
We never write about this one because we are not a hosting company we are however a managed web site hosting company for specific clients those that are growing at a rapid rate and require the Advanced Technology Engineering service offered by the engineering team at Viper Logic and to achieve this we take control of the web site hosting to guide these high speed companies through the Internet world. Just a note these high achiever clients also use Viper Mailer to build on their businesses.
 

Logic Money Maker 3
Viper Logic’s bigger picture, California Authority a weather and information project at California Weather Authority involves something we created called a Domain Name Cluster you can see and learn all about it here at the Art of Building a Domain Name Cluster. We also have a definition of Domain Name Clusters defined.

Logic Money Maker 4
Why can’t we be friends?
This blog is a critical and instrumental tool to make Logic friends and connections to improve our lives both for personal and business. To be honest this entire business was built on trust and build on relationships without these two elements and the driven keyword, we use a lot “PASSION??? you and your business will not ever achieve true success. 

Life starts with a domain name
The new world and world economy has grown into a supposed connected one but actually it is not there yet, but all kinds of companies are trying to give us that through instant message style sites and social profiles.

To start a business, nonprofit or membership organization today you need to start with a domain name and to do this you are going to need to find one and buy it, then pay for it each year forever. Viper Gate sells domain names. 

This price all domain name owners pay is just a cost of doing business and it is the lowest cost item your business will ever spend, offering to you if done correctly the best return on your investment.

Logic owns domain names too
Above you might have noticed that we did not mention our massive domain name portfolio Viper Names once as a money maker.

Domain names are money makers
After all we could not write to you yet alone offer one of our friendly services if it were not for these domain names we have been collecting for products, services and projects since 1995.

.Mobi domain name extensions follow up

Why .Mobi domain names continue to fail
Logic has written about the demise of the .Mobi domain name extension in the past but that was nearly a year ago.

Read the Hype of Domain Name Extensions. 

.Mobi a look back
when a new domain name extension used to arrive on the domain name scene we small business operators would rush to buy our company names and pick up some new names we might like to apply in our future growth plans. We at Viper Logic’s, Viper Names steered clear of the .info, .cc and the .biz domain name extensions but got caught up in the hyped .Mobi because the bigger operators like Microsoft and Google claimed these were going to be the mobile devise future.

.Mobi lacked technology
Before the advent of the .Mobi domain name extension technology had already solved the need for a mobile devise extension with the creation of (WAP) Wireless Application Protocol that when a visitor to your site came to your top level domain name ending or extension being a .com their devise would be recognized and automatically convert the content to cater to this smaller and slower download screen.

The WAP provided the same content and in fact the software that creates this WAP version is required with the .Mobi domain name extension as well.

.Mobi’s only advantage
When a person types in the .Mobi ending for any company that has developed the domain name with the .Mobi ending it tells the mobile devise user that this is a portable devise friendly site, like we say though only if the company site has developed a site for .Mobi and applied the software to runs on your devise.

Why small sites like everything Viper never applied .Mobi
Business promotion is tough enough for a single domain name yet alone having to sell your users on the .Mobi extension.

We find that if a business even requires the need for a WAP conversion software for their customers or general audience then they can buy and simply provide the service for someone that gives it a try, to access their site or sites from the customers mobile devise, then it will work.

Promotion from within
That same business operator can also promote the WAP for mobile devises promotion right on the front page of their .com web site for customers to gradually be made aware that this service free is available for those on the go with mobile devises. 

Who is using .Mobi and how
We went to the most promoted .Mobi user we personally are aware of, FOX and FOXNEWS they both have the .Mobi working as a redirect to the FOX.com and the FOXNews.com sites where they are utilizing the WAP technology preventing the need to manage 2 separate sites.

So what the end user is getting or receiving is the same .com content scaled down through the WAP conversion software making the .Mobi domain name ending just another domain name.

Learn more about domain names
We have a site though lengthy in reading the details of how to buy a domain name that will have value to you and your operation is worth the read and we laid it out in 11 steps easy to read sections titled Domain Name Help and Suggestions.

The cost or additional domain name branding
Reminder the cost of a .Mobi domain name is more expensive to buy and the annual domain name renewals are even higher so the decision to utilize and promote yours or ours small business with a .Mobi extension, is what we call cost prohibitive and these days a small business can better spend its money promoting the base business and the main .com sites with far greater results.

Is the economy calling for collaboration?

A look outside of the free for all social networks
Please meet possibly yours and my best new friend “Collaboration???.

The Internet and the world it produced are truly amazing so what is the grip? You are not going to get a grip out of Logic on or about the Internet but I have plenty to say about how the Internet is served up to us all today, so the question is can we reorganize the data to better serve the masses of business owners?

The answer is a definitive yes.

What is the dictionary meaning of collaboration?
Col-lab-o-rate
Col-lab-o-rat-ed, Col-lab-o-rat-ing and Col-lab-o-rates

Work together in joint intellectual efforts.
Cooperate treasonably with an enemy occupation, work with a competitor

Anything Collaboration is the soon to be new Internet leader
Perhaps you have a profile on one of the 1000’s of social networks, maybe even a video on a video share site and WOW now you are competing with a teenaged boy or girl who is dealing with their first priority, their identity.

Maybe it is time to stop and think about where you want your business to be and what you want that business to be associated with from the eyes of the potential customers or partners. Perhaps the way your business is preserved is not being fulfilled by having a profile or more on a social network or maybe the latest rage Twitter or Yelp are not ways to your identity or fortune. 
 

Meet two of Viper Names domain names

ScientificCollaboration.com
Today scientists collaborate perhaps better then any other know group of professionals. Never the less a great business awaits one who can develop this domain name into a scientific sharing site called collaboration.

Focused contact to join collaboration sites
Then send a mailing to each scientist around the globe with a user ID and a Password only allowing scientists to become a member of scientific collaboration at scientificcollaboration.com and enjoy access to learn, meet, and share who knows what else that can come from intelligent scientists when discussing topics in their area of comfort and not with the masses.

AdvertisingCollaboration.com
Something all advertisers should do is to give up the unique approach of independence and begin to collaborate towards the mass market for whatever product or service they are hired to pitch.

Truly the audience or recipients of print, radio, television and internet have been made to suffer through freedom of creativeness from the creative directors of the advertising industry only to have others follow suit.

The end recipient of any advertising effort is it for Taco Bell versus Del Taco should be looked at as a whole to get the customers thinking not about Taco Bell or Del Taco but about eating out in the fast food market.

Most consumers are going to go where they are comfortable with but they may not have been going out for fast food so getting them thinking fast food is an industry overall winner. 

Members only collaboration anything domain names

Logic’s thought on Domain Names with Collaboration
Regardless of the any name and collaboration .com sites, these are a far newer and more advanced approach to getting only those interested in sharing learning and being generally comfortable with one another building relationships and even finding work and contracts holding meetings video presentations and vote for mine or yours project or approach before ever showing the customer your concepts.

Collaboration sites have a future if they stay focus and are signup only through strictly managed processes and are for a FEE because there are a lot of sites out on our great Internet that require us to sign up but they are not business only sites that pre qualify us, they are only after the numbers, they believe the more numbers they have type of thinking, the better.

Other failed or non professional Internet mediums

Logic says the more FREE and anyone can signup sites known as quantity over quality the more junk you are offering and the site becomes just another Internet super highway car wreck. 

Logic studies Internet forums
Logic is a forum operator and we have two forums one is focused on deserts and the other if focused on beaches. We enjoy our forums and the contributing members because these two forums are focused on two seperate topics of interest to us at Viper Logic.

So even though they are focused on two locations they are not too focused making them too tight on the content one can find, like to be only for a single destination, either way they are FREE to view and FREE to signup for and to post on.

The quality goes down when you allow this. The single biggest flaw with forums in general is that people, visitors rarely read, merely post the same repetitive questions over and over, never reading or searching for the information.

What Logic is saying humans are generally in search of the limelight and are typically lazy, applying no effort to something as simple as a search causing forums to be a real overall letdown.

Viper Names the owner of a portfolio of domain names are open to discussion with anyone who is interested in domain names, even the ones they might find in our portfolio of domain names.