Pool domain names for sale

Any comments?

I'm curious what you folks think the going rate on these domains would be? The estimates I've seen range anywhere from a few hundred to well into five figures.

I think poolproshop.com and billiardsproshop.com are the truly valuable ones. Your opinions?
 
I like:

billiards-proshop.com
nineball-proshop.com
pool-proshop.com

just as much. And they're normal price! I think you should go buy them up too. Since the cue market is low maybe the intarweb market is high. Although I think the only thing high is you since you used your first 2 posts to try to sell lame domains for "possibly" 5 figures.
 
poolproshop.com
billiardsproshop.com
cueproshop.com
It is so easy to just change a few things and you basically get the same name for free. IE: propoolshop - probilliardshop - procueshop, etc.

I do hope you didn't buy into the domain name business BS ads recently heard on the radio. Unless you have something very very unique you're going to find it very difficult to sell a domain name.
 
Dawgie said:
poolproshop.com
billiardsproshop.com
cueproshop.com
It is so easy to just change a few things and you basically get the same name for free. IE: propoolshop - probilliardshop - procueshop, etc.

I do hope you didn't buy into the domain name business BS ads recently heard on the radio. Unless you have something very very unique you're going to find it very difficult to sell a domain name.
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Agreed

What a farce. The guy has 2 posts on a billiard forum and they are just to sell a domain name. If I wanted a name it would have sexpress at the end such as Billiardsexpress. I noticed when doing a search it could come out as Billiards Express or Billiard Sex Press. This is a slick way that is being used to get a people to a porno link or vice versa.
 
Dawgie said:
I do hope you didn't buy into the domain name business BS ads recently heard on the radio. Unless you have something very very unique you're going to find it very difficult to sell a domain name.
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Agreed as well. I also think there have been many precedents about people trying to sell domain names when they have no legitimacy with the name in the first place.

An example would be me owning www.johnnyarcher.com or something similar.
 
Well, if anyone likes one of the names all they have to do is get it using a .net at the end. I checked the first three

poolproshop
billiardsproshop
cueproshop

And these are available using .net
 
Cybersquatting? um...no...

Actually I got the domain names five years ago and always had the idea to develop the sites for them. As I got busier in my career, I realized I was probably never going to have the chance, so I figured I'd see if they're worth anything.

Hard to both "cybersquat" and have something worthless at the same time, don't you think?

In any case, it's readily apparent you guys don't think they're worth anything, and that's fair enough. Thanks for the input.

-- Mark
 
Klopek said:
Four years ago when these domain names were just sitting there not being used, suppose someone contacted you and said they legitimately needed them, would you demand a price for them?. If yes, that's cyber squatting. You're just trying to put a gentler spin on it, but if it walks like a duck....

If you planned to do something, you would have registered a name once you had an online store created. I doubt you were going to use all those domain names at the same time.

I would have just used a hyphen as a workaround, adds drama to the domain name.
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You raise a few points.

Five years ago I had the idea and registered the names. I had a partner lined up to do order fulfillment, while I started work on the web sites (the idea was always to run one site with five skins, not five different websites). He backed out due to his own business problems and I was getting busier, so the whole idea got shelved.

If someone had the company name "Pool Pro Shop" and had registered their business name before I registered the domain name, I would have no choice but to transfer the domain name to them (for expenses only), and I would have done so. If the timing was reversed, then it's a perfectly legitimate business asset that would have been for sale at a mutually agreed on price - same thing if I had state-registered a business called "McDonald's" in 1952 - Ray Kroc would have expected to pay for the business name in my state.

The short explanation is that the domains were registered for a legitimate business idea that didn't pan out. Cybersquatting is registering a name you have no intention of doing anything with except flip - and that was simply not the case.

Lastly, I was never a fan of hyphenated domain names - what it gains in drama it loses in mnemonics. Easier for people to remember it without the hyphens (my opinion and certainly debatable).

Thanks again for the comments (and the civility) - didn't mean to ruffle any feathers here.

-- Mark
 
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