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Originally Posted by The Dawg
Every now and then I see a .NET go for a nice chunk of change. Lyrics.net went for $65k.
When evaluating .net domains what factors help determine their worth?
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As someone said, it's basically the same factors that go into a .com except the value is less.
The thing to note is that when looking at US only traffic, .org is actually 2nd and .net 3rd in terms of most prolific extension (based on quantcast's top 2 million list). Go international and .net is 2nd and .org is 3rd (based on Alexa top million). If I recall correctly, .net hasn't seen a 7-figure sale yet whereas .org has (Poker.org for $1 million).
Something like Lyrics.net sold primarily based on the huge amount of searches containing "lyrics", over half a BILLION per the Google Keyword Tool. Exact searches for only "lyrics" is only a few million but throw a lyrics database on there and SEO the output pages to the song/artist + lyrics and you have a good shot at getting a good chunk of the 500+ million searches per month that contain lyrics, and of course with adsense or CPM banners or whatnot, money can be had.
I had and sold Tourists.net for $6,500 I think, but I'm actually not a HUGE fan of .net. I think .org serves more of a purpose (non-profits, help/info sites, conveys trust/authority, good for medical/health, education, politics etc.) and .net is usually just seen as a subpar option to .com.
Also, .info and .biz are incredibly weak in comparison to the major 3 (.info was semi-popular for a while but really died down once people realized SEOwise they're pretty weak), as are .us and even .me and .co despite their hype-filled popularity. Rule of thumb if you're not in this biz is to stay away from anything that's not com/net/org, and in general it's good to stick with .com. I myself focus on mostly .com and .org, but used to deal with a lot of other extensions and while I saw some bursts of success, the markets for .com and .org are a lot more stable than for other exts.