auction domain or rebuild site

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Hello all,
long time reader, finally registered and decided to post.

I recently bought 2 expired domain names (detroitpua.com and detroitpuas.com)

a year or so ago, they maintained a large forum (10000+ posts 250+ members)

the site is gone, as is any backup of it, and the guy who ran it.

Im wondering whether its worth investing the money into building a new site,hosting, and new forum, or am I better off selling the domain names to someone else who wants to take on that kind of job?

and it definitely is a job. I'm not a big fan of the community, that was around before, for numerous reasons, but there were a number of good guys who contributed a lot of original content as well.

I may even have an email list somewhere with a ton of prior members.
however, at the time it was free, and Im pretty sure the activities involved did not generate enough money to host the forum, which is why it ultimately was all flushed down the crapper.

any thoughts?
#auction #domain #rebuild #site
  • Profile picture of the author OneMotion
    Originally Posted by AleksanderSuave View Post

    Hello all,
    long time reader, finally registered and decided to post.

    I recently bought 2 expired domain names (detroitpua.com and detroitpuas.com)

    a year or so ago, they maintained a large forum (10000+ posts 250+ members)

    the site is gone, as is any backup of it, and the guy who ran it.

    Im wondering whether its worth investing the money into building a new site,hosting, and new forum, or am I better off selling the domain names to someone else who wants to take on that kind of job?

    and it definitely is a job. I'm not a big fan of the community, that was around before, for numerous reasons, but there were a number of good guys who contributed a lot of original content as well.

    I may even have an email list somewhere with a ton of prior members.
    however, at the time it was free, and Im pretty sure the activities involved did not generate enough money to host the forum, which is why it ultimately was all flushed down the crapper.

    any thoughts?
    If you believe the site still worth, try to build it. But if not, just sell the domain name is good option to go. Try sell it to the people that really need those website for good price of money.
    Just my 2 cents
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  • sell the domain i think
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  • Profile picture of the author AleksanderSuave
    would I be better off selling it through one of the auction services or trying to find specific organizations to sell it to?
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  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    Creating a forum is cheap.

    If those web sites are gone means there is no money in it.

    How cheap? Well, $19.95 get's you vBulletin Cloud which is forum software and hosting.

    So, that market was not worth 20 bucks a month. How much do you think somebody would pay for a domain? Reg fee if you are lucky.

    I would not waste my time with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author AleksanderSuave
      hp,
      all things considered, I appreciate your advice.

      would you recommend parking it instead with ads or something similar?
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  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    Doesn`t worth the trouble, you won`t get anything from ads on an empty domain.
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