According to a Press Release tonight the domain name DistanceLearning.com is on the sales block.
It certainly is a huge category in the education field.
According to Steven Kennedy, President of SK Creations, Inc., which owns the name:
“The generic domain name DistanceLearning.com can help position any company as a market leader with the unique branding opportunity it provides along with its thousands of targeted visitors,”
“According to Google’s numbers, there are more than 800,000 online searches a month for the phrase “distance learning,” and competition is extremely high among advertisers for the term. As an exact match domain name, DistanceLearning.com is specially positioned to take advantage of the opportunity for free organic traffic.”
The press release says that the owner is “currently fielding offers in the high six-figure range.”
“The press release says that the owner is “currently fielding offers in the high six-figure range.”
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Pass the crack pipe.
meh, i’d say it will sell for $50k to $75k.
That’s a top class domain in the education field, without a doubt. Good luck to seller.
Pass the crack pipe.
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This particular seller is notorious for delusional pricing.
If I recall, he owns some other good .com names like Koalas, Strawberries, etc (most bought during the peak years) but is in that class of people who will either die owning them- having spent a lifetime crying about the world ‘not getting it’ as far as his valuations- or eventually sell them off for a loss.
This is a top tier education term.
I could see it selling well into the six figure range.
Brad
This is not a top tier education term. Google says Distance Learning gets 8,100 exact local monthly searches at $4.53 a click. Try online colleges with 33,100 exact local monthly @$71.23 ppc.
It will take more then a crack pipe to get anywhere near 6 figures as this was a short lived term and dieing already.
I think he’s lucky if he gets $10K. Edu changed drastically.
@ Phil
It is a top tier education term.
To show you how good the term is, the .NET sold for $30K in 2010.
Brad
@ Brad
Things change. I can give you many .mobi domains that sold over $100K and today are worthless.
Whoever paid $30K for distancelearning.net regrets for waking up that day.
With over 1500 education domain names in our portfolio I feel qualified to opine on this one. I don’t think the name will sell anytime soon and certainly not for high six figures if my own years of experience in this sector is any indication.
As Elliot so well pointed out in a blog post yesterday all domainers are in the game for different reasons. Therefore the name Distancelearning.com may have some use as PPC income but those domainers won’t be willing to pay six figures let alone high six figures for this name.
Education domain names by and large have not proven to be of great interest by the end user community yet 🙂
This may be due in part to the fact that education is not sexy or exciting vs. say the gambling or adult entertainment or other shall we say more exciting industries.
it’s a very good domain, but not a top tier or even category killer.
It’s an industry term, and not always a known consumer term.
Edu traffic and revenue has been falling off in the past year, but it’s still there.
100k range is reasonable pricing
It will be worth more after the gtlds go down in flames and only .com is left to survive.
@Phil
I placed this search in Google and I am getting false results:
“distance learning”
About 33,800,000 results (0.14 seconds)
Are Google’s numbers believable?
Are the numbers and “Broad March”,”Exact Match”, or “Phrase Match” believable?
Can anyone explain this?
RL
I get the same thing
Big topic which is why I wrote about it
are you guys serious ??
placing this into google
“distance learning”
will ONLY tell you how many times that exact term appears on the inetnet websites. Blogs, news sites, wherever including this blog. It has nothing to do with monthly searches volumes
@FX,
With quotes (“) around the term, this is an excellent way to guage the relevance of a term. This particular term (distance learning) is HUGE right now and will only get bigger. I smell a $1.5 million sales price.
FX
We know that but its still shows its a very common term used on millions of sites
Good luck with the sale, Steven.
It seems like a great name, with more instructors connecting with students via Skype and other online channels. There are people out there who would see value in the name, so I don’t understand why one would claim it’s a crack-induced hallucination to think otherwise.
Problem with this domain is that the term “distance learning” is rather boring, legacy, old-fashioned, popular before the internet…giving images of mail order courses of yesteryear…
I mean with the internet these days, the term “distance” is redundant, when everything is all online.
Yes, the term is still used a lot but not the preferred term for an *anchor*
of the site
Domain is most likely to be acquired by domainer-developer type looking to do a affiliate link farm
Look at all the other generics in the education field:
onlinedegree, onlinedegrees…all affiliate link farms..
NOT that attractive to any entity which offers actual online courses, as it would not wish to be branded “distance learning”
If it gets $100,000 to $125,000, it would be an achievement.
I’m not sure why they would use Phrase match for their figure instead of exact match, which is a far lower 40,500. I realize exact match doesn’t always tell the whole story and that the other searches including the phrase do indicate this is a deep area, but high 6-figures does seem high for this. That said, 6-figures is still the range I would expect for this.
Using information like “google shows 33,800,000 results” to justify a pricetag of xxx,xxx
is plain laughable. Take a look at the subsequent sales threads…property tours dot com sold this week for 5K. Google returns over 65 MILLION results for the query “property tours”. Based on the flawed logic being applied in this thread and the magnanomous popularity of the term property tours it should be worth 1 million dollars no?
edistancelearning.com $3,000.00 in this months afternic sales, for what its worth.