The domain webmaters.org is for sale on Sitepoint. As of the writing of this post the bid is currently at $9,000.00 USD.
The site posted earnings of like $6,000 which to me is really irrelevant. The value of the domain “webmasters.org” is the primary asset for sale.
The site is a pr7 and after looking at some of the sites internal strongest pages using one of our webmaster tools you can see most of the links are going to the sites directory which is a pr6.
This is a good sign because IMO the directory is where I would try to monetize this site with subscription for premium listings or listings in general.
Using other tools we can see the pagerank does flow throughout the site pretty well so it does appear to be valid.
The only negative to this site is its .org TLD. I have had a lot of talks with my good friend (and sleeper domain expert) Aaron Wall about picking up .org domains and they seem to go for 5-10% of what the .com’s of similar name go for.
Using Archive.org you can see the history of this domain is pretty clean. Does not look like anything was ever there that would hurt the reputation of it with users or search engines.
If you pin me down I would estimate this domain to be worth 50-100k
For someone who knows how to create a good subscription service for webmasters that could easily be a monthly profit within a year or so.
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I wonder how high this domain will go for?
If you would sell it 10 times the profit…it would go as high as 60k. But as Shoe said… in this case the domain name has a certain value and a lot of factors have to be consider…
Will watch this bid! I wanna see the outcome.
hm.. .org huh. i dont want to under estimate the.org, but i think they will score no more then $40k. now if someone would like to buy JackBook.Com
Why didn’t you make a bid, Shoe?
The bid is up to $16K at the moment and you probably right – just for the name it should raise at least $50K…
How do you know I haven’t =P
I was going to ask the same thing lol. Figured if you were planning to put in a bid you wouldn’t want/need the extra competition by posting about it lol.
Looks like an excellent opportunity. Thankfully I am way too small time to consider bidding but would love the chance at it.
Do you need beta testers for that product?
Not really its the tools we use internally for the last 6 years or so
You can bet if the price is right and nobody has purchased it I will. We currently have enough projects on our present and future plates but a deal is still a deal if the price is right.
This interesting i never thought you could have a profitable commercial .org
I am sure you wouldn’t have posted it though if you were planning to buy it…
Just curious how far will the BID go
BTW Congrats for the baby, I just saw the pics 
wow! i guess it will be selled for more than $50 000
gud tip shoe
will also be keeping an evil eye on that sales thread
Wow, well it’s already twice of when you wrote this post. I’m eager to see how much this goes for.
Yup.
Again though for the right price…
When I click on your webmaster tools link I get…
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /home/websites/tools/html/wp-content/themes/SWTC/tool_functions.inc on line 227
we are actively developing it so you will probably see that until it is released.
Is this a wise investment with the opening up of the TLD`s.
(dot)webmasters could be quite lucrative, parking page at shoe(dot)money.
sorry. he already has me and dean hunt!!!
ooops. dean hunt and I for the grammar nazis
The current bidding price is amazing. How did it get a PR of 7?
@Jason – right, but they aren’t “blogmaster” tools.
I used to have a PR 7 in 04, I should have hung on to it, but I didn’t know that page rank would be so valuable. It used to be much easier to have a higher page rank and some of the crusty old domains have been able to maintain it.
Don’t harp on the concept of PR. Webmasters.org is old and trusted, and presumably can be made to rank for more than it already is.
It’s 19.999$ now, good price is coming!
that’s a good domain name and with a good idea it can bring xxxx$ per months. But if it was .com it will be more better! I’ll take a look on the auction.
No one knows how lucrative those new TLDs will be. My guess is that Google won’t treat them nearly as well as the established elite TLDS, making them not worth much.
yeah it will be interesting to see.
Current Bid: $35,000
Reserve price not yet met
we are waiting
Hey this is Chad the owner, thanks for all the interest guys. I set a really high reserve just because sitepoint legally bounds you to sell if you don’t have a reserve. I am willing to sell for much less then my reserve. It was more just to protect me legally or in case someone made an offer outside of sitepoint. Maybe that was dumb and I hope it doesn’t drive people away from bidding.
Thanks,
Chad
.org isnt a good thing but i think in this field it would be fine
webmasters will bookmark it anyway
Well, in this case it would be unlikely for webmasters.org to ever rank #1 for webmasters. It has to beat the dot com and apparently Google, which is claiming the top 2 spots from my datacenter.
Not fair! You weren’t supposed to win that too!!! lol
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demandbeg to be added to this elite group for testing. I write a mean testimonial as wellGood luck with the sale Chad. Even if you don’t get a bid you are happy with it is surely to get it eventually. If it doesn’t sell at SP check with some of the larger live auction houses
Where did you see a $6000/month profit? I thought the monthly profit was $25…
9K seems like an awfully big risk on a domain name to me.
actually, .org’s have a stronger tendency to outrank a .com on Google.
It’s just a start, we are going to see hell many Greatt Domains getting sold in next few months.
Reason: The probable advent of new TLDs like web[dot]masters
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Shoemoney – Where did you see the site earnings of $6000? On SitePoint they are listed as $25/month…
Finally a good example of how to break down the price of a Domain! Hope your tools become available soon!
I dont think this domain will go less then 80000$
I don’t see that kind of value for that domain — except to resell it later for a profit. It’s called the greater fool theory — if I am a fool and pay too much, I need to find a greater fool when I sell.
As for developing a domain for webmasters you could easily do the same thing with a generic brandable domain.
PR 7 domain. Wow. Hope the seller gets the best deal. Good Luck to him. The domain has the potential too.
We made a guess
that is a huge sum. I doubt if it will get sold at that price. But cannot really say. It is already at $37000. The seller is rich now hehe.
I think it will be sold below $50,000. But thats just a guess
37k now that’s amazing. this is a great post i find myself checking the status often.
I wonder how the pr7 will fare with the new owners!
what subscription service would you do that could earn 50000 a month also he has to get traffic where does that all come from
Pr7… the magic numbers…
I dream of a site with pr7…
I think you’re way off this thing is going higher than 50k. It’s got lots of time left and currently at 37k
How much do you bid J?
Yea, but lets not forget that it is a .org domain!
I also bought combative.org to speculate in the popularity of MMA ..
How much do you think a domain like that is worth, currently?
Now $38000 is more than enough for it.. which is the present bid.
already at $38k…I don’t think that it will be sold for far more than this.
$38k is not bad for webmasters.org , the domain name is very nice
Interesting take on TLD’s, going to be interesting though. I assume that .google will have great credibility.
I think it is so exciting to see where it all goes. I still just cannot understand how they going to sell the new TLD’s
Wow, that would be awesome, thats either a lot of cash or hard work.
I dunno I am always of the mind that you should build a great site first and worry about the name somewhere along the line.. paying $60k without a strategy is pretty insane unless thats chump change 4 u.
Difficult to say how much money the buyer pays. Everything will depend on its ability and common sense.
It is currently on $38000!!!! Looking good!
Okay, so on today, the 12th of June 2008 the top bid is sitting at $38000. Think it will go up more?
I think the domain’s value is nothing over 50k, and that a little pushed. It has a great value for someone that would be ready to build up a subscription forum. Shoe what’s your quick appraisal for ModernPerson.com ? Grabbed this domain a few days ago.Sounds interesting to me, There are also 129 million results in google for the terms “modern person”.
9 million! nobody will give that amount of money.
I dont like .orgs but if I had the money I would pick it up
How can a site like that, with so small back links and content to achieve a PR 7?!
I dont think this domain will go less then 6000$
was sold for more than 6000$, but its look very simple, not worthy for this money
I dont think so … even dont like org domain but it’s pr 7 it’s awesome and domain registered from 1999
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Good luck!
Is to much ! to much money for this site!
thanks for the tip, it’s way too much for me any ways good luck.
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I don’t think that only the name deserves that much money. I will watch the auction, and if it goes for that much I swear I am going into domain flipping .