calories.com 4 sale at $600,000...overpriced?

i was going to say overpriced, but it's all relative at the end of the day. A company like bodybuilding.com could come along and buy the domain and build a multi million dollar business on it.

BUT

from a brand point of view it's no good.

Assuming a fat loss site is going to be built for it, "calories" is just the wrong brand to go for. If I was going to spend 600K I'd rather get fatloss.com than calories.com

This domain would only be good for a website for calorie counting, and those types of business are not worth as much as much as you might think. Anyone know gross profit p.a. of fitday?

So, actually, I've come full circle it's overpriced.
 


Berto said:
Haha here goes the thread derailment. And I'm about to get back to work so I won't be getting back.

Let me preface this by saying I HATE the term "weight loss". Yes, you can "lose weight" by putting yourself in caloric deficit (calories in < calories out). You can also "lose weight" by taking diuretics or putting yourself in a sauna and sweating out water weight.

But first off, none of these are sustainable, second, they are not healthy in the long-term, and third, they are NOT ATTRACTIVE.

Caloric deficits via eating processed shit and sugar = people who are "SKINNY FAT". The most unattractive kind of person if you ask me.

Yeah, that one professor lost all sorts of weight eating nothing but donuts... but he also fried his liver and catabolized his muscle tissue in the process. Most women would not be attracted to his body over a guy who was "muscular fat". Of course, we'd like to be neither of these.....

While calories should be part of the equation to keep you in check, it's not everything. Bodyfat percentage / the mirror are more important, and simply dropping calories is not how you look good, especially if you're doing so with a slim fast style diet that's loaded with nothing but sugar.

Also, a calorie is not just a calorie. Hell, a carb is not just even a carb! Your body handles different compounds with different biochemical processes.

Go ahead and eat straight fructose all day long and tell me how your liver's doing in a year. It will be shot compared to the guy who gets his "calories" from whole foods
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I wanted to hear your diet plan that defies calories in < calories out. Still waiting man :love-smiley-086:
 
TigerUK said:
i was going to say overpriced, but it's all relative at the end of the day. A company like bodybuilding.com could come along and buy the domain and build a multi million dollar business on it.

BUT

from a brand point of view it's no good.

Assuming a fat loss site is going to be built for it, "calories" is just the wrong brand to go for. If I was going to spend 600K I'd rather get fatloss.com than calories.com

This domain would only be good for a website for calorie counting, and those types of business are not worth as much as much as you might think. Anyone know gross profit p.a. of fitday?

So, actually, I've come full circle it's overpriced.
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I agree about the brand thing, it's not really a natural term to look for in a search.
 
Kerkat said:
I agree about the brand thing, it's not really a natural term to look for in a search.
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Calories has 135k exact match according to the google keyword tool.
Calorie has around 74k.

The exact match .com is pretty much guaranteed to rank top with some dev on the site. That's around free 4-6k uniques/day on a good diet related term. That's an easy 100k/month in rev. 600k for the domain is bargain.

I think this is the first domain appraisal request all of wickedfire as ever agreed on :1orglaugh:
 
Deliguy said:
I think this is the first domain appraisal request all of wickedfire as ever agreed on :1orglaugh:
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Actually, I disagreed. It may easily rank for the EMD, but how much is the EMD really worth?

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"Calories" is not a buying keyword, so you've still got to convert that traffic. Also, don't forget that if it was sugh a great buy at $600k, it would already be off the market (probably never would have made it to the market, if it was that much of a bargain). Not saying it won't eventually sell for $600k to the right buyer, but I still think it's overpriced by a couple hundred thousand.
 
Definitely tons of searches. One could write endless articles on different types of foods and products: "calories in beer", "calories in eggs", etc.

But for $600k I think there are better domains out there. IPO.com and Brazil.com each sold for just $500k within the last couple years. Both are better domains, IMO.
 
Yuckystuff said:
Actually, I disagreed. It may easily rank for the EMD, but how much is the EMD really worth?


"Calories" is not a buying keyword, so you've still got to convert that traffic.
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Yeah, you'd have to have a excellent sales funnel in place to monetize all that traffic properly (email capture and backend products)
 
pocketrockets said:
Definitely tons of searches. One could write endless articles on different types of foods and products: "calories in beer", "calories in eggs", etc.

But for $600k I think there are better domains out there. IPO.com and Brazil.com each sold for just $500k within the last couple years. Both are better domains, IMO.
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no body is searching for calories, they're probably all in broad match, and for that why the fuck would you spend 600K on a single word domain when you're targeting longtail. It's retarded.

pocketrockets said:
Yeah, you'd have to have a excellent sales funnel in place to monetize all that traffic properly (email capture and backend products)
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It's too much of a long shot, you have to create hundreds of pages for each food item, seo them for "calories in x", and then optimise each page for a loosely based opt in which isn't going to convert all that great. Just too much work.
 
TigerUK said:
no body is searching for calories, they're probably all in broad match, and for that why the fuck would you spend 600K on a single word domain when you're targeting longtail. It's retarded.
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Nobody searching? Google is showing 135,000 [exact match] per month from English speaking countries. They can tend to over state searches but I doubt it's that far off with this term.

Like I said, I think there are better domains for that price range... just pointing out the strategy that would likely have to be put in place.
 
Deliguy said:
Calories has 135k exact match according to the google keyword tool.
Calorie has around 74k.

The exact match .com is pretty much guaranteed to rank top with some dev on the site. That's around free 4-6k uniques/day on a good diet related term. That's an easy 100k/month in rev. 600k for the domain is bargain.

I think this is the first domain appraisal request all of wickedfire as ever agreed on :1orglaugh:
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Doubt you'd make 100k a month easy with 4-6k uniques a day. More like 10-15k. That or I fucking suck at selling people shit, probably a little of both.
 
after reading all the comments I think $300k would be more like it. The red flag is exactly why it is still in the market and nobody ever took the time to develop it.
 
Even 300k is too much. As already explained, it's not a buying keyword. If you were dead set on getting into this niche, you're be better buying an existing website with history or start a new site and sink the 300k into development and content.

Plus the serps are dominated by brand names.. it's not gonna be easy to rank even with the EMD.
 
I think its bullshit how people ask for obscene amounts for domain names. I've seen "Fuckedoffdomainswithmultiplephrases.net" with asking prices of 20k-100k. It's very common. Maybe some fuck tards out there are actually buying them resulting in the dumbass sellers requesting such high prices? The most money I've ever dropped for a domain, was $1300 with several in the 800-1300 range (emd's .com, aged).

The absolute only way I can see paying an obscene amount, is if it was a brandable, common word, dictionary name for business (example; business.com, office.com, hell calories.com) - but something like 600k, is just crazy.
 
My personal opinion is it should be more like $10k BUT someone with a good plan could offer like 5x more. Apart from the usual health / fitness articles, this could be a major calorie calculator site. It could get a lot of natural links too if the calorie calculators could be customized and embedded by food bloggers. Think of almost all recipe sites having a custom calorie calculator embedded with each recipe where you add / remove / vary the amounts of ingredients and the calorie count changes accordingly. Lots of ideas if you go deeper there...
 
jacky8 said:
My personal opinion is it should be more like $10k BUT someone with a good plan could offer like 5x more. Apart from the usual health / fitness articles, this could be a major calorie calculator site. It could get a lot of natural links too if the calorie calculators could be customized and embedded by food bloggers. Think of almost all recipe sites having a custom calorie calculator embedded with each recipe where you add / remove / vary the amounts of ingredients and the calorie count changes accordingly. Lots of ideas if you go deeper there...
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Do you need an EMD to do that?.
 
You don't buy calories.com for it being an EMD. You buy calories.com because it's really brandable.

You don't spend $600k for a domain with the primary goal of ranking for a single term.

I think all this discussion about search volume and profitability for the keyword 'calories' is kinda irrelevant for a domain like this.
 
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