Need advice on pricing
Hey fellow makers 👋
I'm building a service which helps makers and startups get an awesome domain for their project. Currently, the focus is on great dotcoms, since they are increasingly hard to source.
After a few initial feedback rounds, I got a few questions about the price. So I wanted to get your views on what would you be willing to pay for a dotcom purchase? I'm only sourcing short, pronounceable, memorable names. To give you a taste:
cinetric . com / jugeo . com / merketo . com / vuovo . com / etc.
How much would you pay for the above-mentioned domains if you saw them on offer?
I would appreciate your feedback! 🙏
If I bootstrap something I would go for a cheap domain and not necessarily a .com
Maybe I’m not aware of something, but unless I’m at a later, more successful and bigger stage I wouldn’t see it as much value compared to another domain. Essentially the price I’m willing to pay depends on what value I perceive that I’m getting from this domain compared to another.
Fair enough. Question becomes, at what price level would you consider a dotcom even for a bootstrapped project? Would you drop, let's say, $200 on a good one?
The problem is that I don’t know anything about the concrete advantages and therefore I can’t value it intrinsically. Sure, maybe it’s more serious or trustworthy, but that’s abstract. If I would have unbiased data from experiments etc showing that e.g. a .com compared to a .whatever performs on average x % better in important metrics I would consider it for a price depending on the x. But only for a validated project with some customers.
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