NameOpps.com - Domain Name Opportunities
Price: $1500
URL: http://www.nameopps.com
NameOpps.com - Domain Name Opportunities - is a marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Buyers can browse through the listings, select domains or websites of interest to them and submit their bids or offers. Sellers can list their domains and websites for sale on the site to find a buyer. Listing options include: (a) standard auction, (b) fixed price, (c) barter, (d) turbo low price, and (e) listings linked to other auctions or websites.
Initially set-up as a free site for promotional purposes, the services rendered are ready to be charged for as you may decide - pay for listings, pay based on closing value, pay as subscription fees. You can set and increase or decrease prices as necessary. Basically, others buy and sell, you collect the fees.
How much money can the site make?
To make the site popular, listings and closings are free for the time being. Later it is intended to charge for each listing - pay per listing, pay based on closing value or on subscription basis giving the privilege of making certain number of listings for a certain period. Let’s say you decide to charge $10 per listing for 30 days - you may or may not charge for renewals. At $10, 100 listings per month (which is no figure at all considering the size of the market) will bring in $1,000 in a month; 250 listings will bring in $2,500; 500 listings (which too is a small figure) will bring in $5,000; so on so forth. Depending on the exigencies of the market, you can increase or decrease the fee as needed. You can have featured and premier listings and charge a higher price.
Please, however, be very clear. To make money you must market your service. Initially you may need a lot of effort to popularize the site. Once the site starts getting popular, viral marketing will set in. The site, from there onwards, will market itself on its own. And you can make this money with no overheads. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.
What are the site’s special features?
Built using VBScript (Microsoft ASP) using a powerful MS-SQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Site Admin. You can manage users, listings, subscriptions, configuration of the site - all from your web browser.
Several payment gateways are integrated with the site - PayPal, AuthorizeNet, DirectOne, eProcessingNetwork, IonGate, LinkPoint, SecPay, Verisign PayProFlow, YourPay etc. As stated earlier, you can charge pay per listing, pay based on closing value, on subscription basis giving the privilege of making certain number of listings for a certain period, featured listings, premier listings, discount by group membership etc. Billing can be managed directly from the browser based Site Admin.
Site categories can be created, added, modified as needed via the Admin. You can set the number of pictures and the size of the pictures - x, y as well as bytes - you would like to permit in the listings. You can set whether you will first approve the listings before they are published or published automatically. You can edit listings before approval and later if it becomes necessary. You can delete listings if you so wish.
Users have their own control panel from where they can manage their auction listings, subscriptions, invoices, profiles. Users can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones that are not required. They can leave feedback for completed transactions. To build a community, a forum can be added using the same login created for the marketplace.
NameOpps.com - Domain Name
Name or Domain Name Opportunities - that’s what this domain represents. Buying and selling domain names (and websites) is the theme or business model of this website. A short, easily remembered domain, conveys it’s purpose and meaning without any ambiguity or confusion. Will be worth in higher 4-figures for the name alone.