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Fairytale Brownies gross roughly $10 million in sales annually with around 60 percent of it's revenue from online sales.

Fairytale Brownies, Inc. owns
brownies.com (Main Homepage)
brownie.com (Redirect)
brownies.net (Inactive)
brownies.org (Redirect)
brownie.org (Redirect)

Brownie.net is parked at Sedo and owner is asking for 5,000 Euros. All other major extensions are taken.

In 2012, Brownie Brittle received $8 million in sales. Currently, Owler.com estimated annual revenue for Brownie Brittle is $10 million.

There are so many possible end-user's for this domain I think. Search Google for "brownies"

I found over 500 websites registered with the keyword 'brownies' in them.

Average Search Results: 40,300,000
Avg. Monthly Broad Searches: 3,370,200 CPC $0.83
Avg. Exact Match Searches: 247,230 CPC $1.22

The plural 'brownies' is more popular than 'brownie' which has about 135,300 Exact Searches and CPC $1.31

Comparable Sales:
Brownie.gift $1,750
Browniepan.com $660
Brownies.no $1,500
Brownies.gift $1,750
MarijuanaBrownie.com $1,354

Let me know what you think is a good price for this name. I don't plan on holding on to this one for too long. Resellers are to send offers to my inbox. Thank you
 
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When I see what diet and buy sold for in this extension

diet.io 1,400 USD
buy.io 1,700 USD

I am leaning towards your domain being more like bubbles

bubbles.io 375 USD


Good Luck
 
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io sales are more inclined towards technology and gadget. Unless your brownie is a code word for something techological, it's not really worth much. Although an end user can be convinced that this can be a good investment for their business as .io tld is treated as geotargeted domains and Brownie has thousands of exact match search terms.
 
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io sales are more inclined towards technology and gadget. Unless your brownie is a code word for something techological, it's not really worth much. Although an end user can be convinced that this can be a good investment for their business as .io tld is treated as geotargeted domains and Brownie has thousands of exact match search terms.

There are lots of .io domain sales which are not tech inclined. And no, .io is not treated as a geo-targeted extension by Google.
Hmm.. 70 views and just 2 replies. All good though. I drafted an email and today I'll be directly contacting some end-user's to see if any of them will be interested in buying this.
 
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The bottom line is that .io is just another extension. And there are plenty in which the keyword must still be available. Just because a domainer registered a name, doesn't make it valuable. I wouldn't waste too much time on it, remember that if a domain is still available it usually is for a reason: nobody would pay refgee for it.

If they have the .com they don't need inferior extensions.
Trying to sell them inferior extensions is spamming.
 
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@Kate Do you ever make any positive reply about domain names owned by other people? I noticed you're usually not nice with words on this forum and I was actually just thinking why you've not commented on this thread before I got an alert about your reply.
I understand maybe you are 'telling the truth as it is' but then remember the reg. fee (be it $0.99, $10 or $42) is someone's money, someone's sweat, someone's 'investment'. He or she liked the domain name first, that's why they bought it hoping someone else will like it too and be willing to pay more to acquire the name. I have since stopped buying any domain names I don't like and won't be able to develop if I don't find a buyer for it.
I'm sure you won't feel good if you bought a dress you think looks good and wore it to a party and everyone there thinks your dress is trashy and worthless without minding what it cost you to buy it. How much more when a total stranger walks up to you and tells it to your face that your dress is worthless?
Even if someone asks for an appraisal, it's only nice to play human and be constructive in your criticism. Thank you
 
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@Kate Do you ever make any positive reply about domain names owned by other people? I noticed you're usually not nice with words on this forum and I was actually just thinking why you've not commented on this thread before I got an alert about your reply.
I understand maybe you are 'telling the truth as it is' but then remember the reg. fee (be it $0.99, $10 or $42) is someone's money, someone's sweat, someone's 'investment'. He or she liked the domain name first, that's why they bought it hoping someone else will like it too and be willing to pay more to acquire the name. I have since stopped buying any domain names I don't like and won't be able to develop if I don't find a buyer for it.
I'm sure you won't feel good if you bought a dress you think looks good and wore it to a party and everyone there thinks your dress is trashy and worthless without minding what it cost you to buy it. How much more when a total stranger walks up to you and tells it to your face that your dress is worthless?
Even if someone asks for an appraisal, it's only nice to play human and be constructive in your criticism. Thank you

You should be thankful that people like kate spend their time to reply to threads like this. I know, sometimes people get attached by their names and think they've got a gem when it is not the case.

The point kate was trying to make is that there must be a reason why no one took this domain at reg fee for so many years ... either the domain is not good enough or the possible endusers don't give two pence. .io extension is geared towards startups (mainly) and unless you find a startup interested in buying your name, it's hard to believe you'll get a decent return for this domain (not impossible though).

It is probably in your best interest to clearly state in thread that you're looking only for replies from people praising your names if that's what makes you feel better.

Hope this helps
 
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I want to auction Brownies.io
Where do you think I'll get the best results? NamePros or Flippa?
 
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@loredan Thanks for your input, I was only trying to make a point. People still handreg gems daily that end up selling for thousands of dollars. Check the domain availability for 'brownies' you'll see I'm not the only one buying up other extensions of the name besides the .com .net and org
 
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@loredan Thanks for your input, I was only trying to make a point. People still handreg gems daily that end up selling for thousands of dollars. Check the domain availability for 'brownies' you'll see I'm not the only one buying up other extensions of the name besides the .com .net and org

I agree that people still handreg gems but these are usually upcoming technologies, medical, science, etc...
Brownies is a word and it makes sense to be registered in many extensions...it simply doesn't make it a gem.

A "gem" in my opinion can be sold from mid four figures upwards, the rest of them are "flipping material". If you handreg a name and sell it for $300 it doesn't mean you sold a gem...it's just flipping as usual.

Personally I appraise your Brownies.io name at low to mid $xxx but that's just my humble opinion. I wish you could sell it for $1 mil and then send me a post card from Maldives :)
 
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I agree that people still handreg gems but these are usually upcoming technologies, medical, science, etc...
Brownies is a word and it makes sense to be registered in many extensions...it simply doesn't make it a gem.

A "gem" in my opinion can be sold from mid four figures upwards, the rest of them are "flipping material". If you handreg a name and sell it for $300 it doesn't mean you sold a gem...it's just flipping as usual.

Personally I appraise your Brownies.io name at low to mid $xxx but that's just my humble opinion. I wish you could sell it for $1 mil and then send me a post card from Maldives :)

I stated in my first post that I'm not looking to hold on to Brownies.io for a long time. I want to flip it ASAP and low-mid XXX was exactly what I had in mind. Why would @Kate even say sending emails to possible end-user's is spamming? I always thought that's one of the recommended marketing strategy in domaining.
Btw, Postcards.io is available for registration. I guess that's another worthless domain?
 
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I don't spend a lot of time in the NamePros auction section so not sure how much interest .io has here. I checked five pages of auctions and only found two for .io, one is Terrorism.io which is struggling to get the $50 starting bid, and the other is a portfolio of some comparable .io to yours and doesn't seem like too much interest either although the auction doesn't end until the 15th:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/terrorism-io-starting-bid-50.942738/
https://www.namepros.com/threads/desert-io-oldschool-io-punycode-io-suk-io-start-1.942803/

I would assume a lot of NP members use Flippa, but not a lot of Flippa's audience would use NP, so I think Flippa would get the most exposure for the auction but it also has a listing fee and commission which NP doesn't. The .io extension is pretty well-received on Flippa, you can see the results here:

https://namebio.com/?s=QMzQTM5gDN

If you're not in a rush you could always wait and see where those two auctions I linked to close, and compare those to the Flippa results. I just checked pages 6-15 in the NamePros auctions and couldn't find a .io auction that had already closed to see how it went, and none of the ones I did find had much interest, you could try going further back though.
 
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@Michael Thanks for your very detailed reply. I'll make a final decision based on your analysis. Flippa will be just fine
 
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Sorry, I am trying to save you time, money and disappointment.
And yes I post positive appraisals on the occasion, review my past posts. It all depends on the domain.
I know I am not the most diplomatic person here :guilty: but I prefer to be brutally honest: the odds of selling are extremely remote.

Why would @Kate even say sending emails to possible end-user's is spamming?
I thought you were going to offer it to brownies.com, I probably misunderstood that. Anyway, you don't solicit people who already have a domain name unless you offer something superior, that could be considered an upgrade over what they are presently using. Otherwise yes I consider it spamming because you would be wasting other people's time (in addition to yours) over domains that they don't want or need.
https://www.namepros.com/threads/emails-from-domainers-selling-crap-names.742232/

Btw, Postcards.io is available for registration. I guess that's another worthless domain?
If it has no resale value, then yes it's worthless for domaining purposes. And if it had any value, it would probably be registered (which still doesn't mean that it would ever sell).

Remember that it's already hard enough to sell .com domains.
.io is a niche.

For the keyword 'brownies' I found only 6 sales since 2004 in dnsaleprice.com:
  • 3 .com
  • 1 .net
  • 1 .mobi
  • 1 .no
Very few sales. That suggests that there isn't a lot of demand here. Wrong niche, wrong extension imho. But good luck anyway.
 
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If you have price in mind put here in Fixed Price section else put it in Flippa Auction.
 
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If you have price in mind put here in Fixed Price section else put it in Flippa Auction.

I don't have a fixed price in mind that's why I'm looking to do an auction so I can see how much bids or offers I'll get. It will be listed on Flippa today
 
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There are lots of .io domain sales which are not tech inclined. And no, .io is not treated as a geo-targeted extension by Google.
Why don't you read?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

.io is treated as geotargeted. That is why there are so many sales. There are none technological sales too but they are all singular keywords or plural offered with singular. The domain will not be able to fetch even $XXX on Flippa. If you find an end user then it is a different story.
 
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I don't have a fixed price in mind that's why I'm looking to do an auction so I can see how much bids or offers I'll get. It will be listed on Flippa today
Ok, Good Luck!
 
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Why don't you read?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

.io is treated as geotargeted. That is why there are so many sales. There are none technological sales too but they are all singular keywords or plural offered with singular. The domain will not be able to fetch even $XXX on Flippa. If you find an end user then it is a different story.

Irrelevant question. Ofc I read but misunderstood you earlier. And saying all plural .io names are sold together with the singular is a big lie. If you think my name won't sell for XXX on Flippa, that's your opinion. Thanks for posting
 
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I doubt an enduser would pay for this, but single word .io are killing it on Flippa, I'd put it up for auction for your best chance at a return
 
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@Kate Do you ever make any positive reply about domain names owned by other people? I noticed you're usually not nice with words on this forum and I was actually just thinking why you've not commented on this thread before I got an alert about your reply.
I understand maybe you are 'telling the truth as it is' but then remember the reg. fee (be it $0.99, $10 or $42) is someone's money, someone's sweat, someone's 'investment'. He or she liked the domain name first, that's why they bought it hoping someone else will like it too and be willing to pay more to acquire the name. I have since stopped buying any domain names I don't like and won't be able to develop if I don't find a buyer for it.
I'm sure you won't feel good if you bought a dress you think looks good and wore it to a party and everyone there thinks your dress is trashy and worthless without minding what it cost you to buy it. How much more when a total stranger walks up to you and tells it to your face that your dress is worthless?
Even if someone asks for an appraisal, it's only nice to play human and be constructive in your criticism. Thank you
Save your breath; it is so worthless. I understand how you feel and point of such situation.
 
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Put it on flippa and find out what its worth. I bet there is 1000 extensions that I can register with brownies
Brownies.vin
Appraisal reg fee
godaddy says $86 to register a .io
is that the renewal fee? If so, a reg fee appraisal would be mighty generous
 
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@Kate Do you ever make any positive reply about domain names owned by other people?

Being honest is usually more helpful than telling someone what they want to hear. I happen to agree with @Kate on every point.

You asked for opinions in a public forum and you got them. If everyone agreed that it was a gem it wouldn't have been available for you to hand reg in the first place.

Having said that, I hope your auction ends with positive results.
 
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Why don't you read?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

.io is treated as geotargeted. That is why there are so many sales. There are none technological sales too but they are all singular keywords or plural offered with singular. The domain will not be able to fetch even $XXX on Flippa. If you find an end user then it is a different story.

Thanks for this info..Gave me a boost to concentrate on my HardDisk.io
 
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