Tuscl.net for sale?
JohnSmith69
layin low but staying high
No, I have no reason to think that founder is selling. But, if the opportunity arose, I was wondering if any of our high earning members could or would buy it.
I ran the domain name through a bunch of online price calculators which came up with numbers varying from around 30K to 140K. However, I recognize those are probably not worth a whole lot, and might be worthless.
Does anybody have any experience in valuing or purchasing websites? What would you pay if it were available?
I ran the domain name through a bunch of online price calculators which came up with numbers varying from around 30K to 140K. However, I recognize those are probably not worth a whole lot, and might be worthless.
Does anybody have any experience in valuing or purchasing websites? What would you pay if it were available?
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Assuming that this site doesn't actually produce significant net income after expenses and after assigning some value to Founder's time, I suspect that most of the value would come from the novelty aspect, along with future potential revenues for someone who may have more of a marketing platform than Founder does.
The problem is that every revenue enhancement angle has a negative trade-off. For example, if you decided to require paid memberships for viewing reviews, you'd probably collect many fewer of them, which would make the intel less valuable, and site traffic would probably also decline significantly. If you start taking more advertising dollars from the biggest and most ready potential source, the clubs themselves, you risk adverse impacts as your biggest advertisers will doubtless try to exert influence on how they are portrayed on here, which in turn could reduce the value of the primary product.
Also keep in mind that this is really a niche site dealing with a very discrete market. There are less than 3,000 clubs nationwide now and only a small fraction of club visitors are even going to bother visiting a site like this, so the question really is: how many unique visitors come to this site in any given time period.
Now I'm guessing that something will have to change at some point, but I am grateful to founder for keeping this resource the way it is for so long and in not succumbing to the temptations to grab every possible advertising dollar. We've all seen what SCL has become, which is essentially useless, and I would hate to see tuscl suffer a similar fate.
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Estimated worth $93,154
How much can it make?
$208/day
$6,240/month
$74,880/year
Traffic estimate
13,871 visitors/day
416,130 visitors/month
4,993,560 visitors/year