PR4 Established MMORPG Community

After much contemplation, i've decided to put ArchlordSource.com up for sale.

About the game

Archlord is an MMORPG published by Codemasters, who also publish RF Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online and the upcoming Lord of the Rings Online. The game itself recently went free-to-play and saw a surge of new players.

About the site

ArchlordSource was originally set up around January 2006, and was the first fansite dedicated to the game. I purchased the site in May 2006 and set about completely revamping and relaunching what, at the time, was a small info site.

The site runs on Xoops with an original custom design made by myself; and makes use of an IPB forum, with over 1100 members. It has reached PR4, with links featured in numerous high-profile locations including the official game website, as well as the links section on MMORPG.com.

I've neglected the place somewhat since aroound December last year owing to not having much time to update it with news; however regardless of this, it still recieves on average 100-250 uniques per day. Back when i was updating the site regularly, it pulled in on average 500 daily uniques, which gives you an idea of what can be achieved with a little TLC.

Revenue-wise, I didn't really start to monetize the place until a few months ago, due to Adsenses tendancy to show gold-selling ads (which an old affiliate of the site was strictly against). The site has earned a bit from adsense, as well as commission sales through Linkshare, however someone with more expertise in monetizing a site could probably do a whole lot better than me.

The site currently ranks in the top 5 search results for 'archlord' on Google, with close to 2000 indexed pages; many of which include original and extensive content written by myself and other members of the site.

Stats can be found here: http://www.archlordsource.com/sale

(EDIT) Auction will end 48 hours after the last bid received*, or as soon as someone makes a BIN purchase. Payment can only be made via Paypal.

Starting Price: $100
Current highest bid: $120 (DNForum)
BIN: $850 - REDUCED TO $750
Bid increments: $10

Can provide proof of stats on request; please post any other questions you may have in here.

Also listed:

http://www.namepros.com/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1773609
http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?p=1089325

Clarification on auction format:
Every bid opens a 48 hour 'window', if another bidder comes along in that time, their bid stands for a further 48hrs; if 48hrs is reached without further bids, that bidder takes the sale.

 

Links doesn't work for me -.-

 

Why is it that hosts always seem to go down the second you try to sell a site?

Gimme a sec, i'll harrass them and try to get it fixed.

 

That really sucks, I also can't see the site

 

Alrighty, it appears to be back up now

 

Just a note, the $120 bid made on DNForum was made yesterday (19th Feb) at 12.16pm GMT, therefore if no bids are made before 12.16pm GMT tomorrow (21st Feb), that bidder wins it

 

site is down again...

 

Don't know what else I expected from a company whose slogan is 'We host your mom'.... -.-

Just checked again and everything seems to be working fine now, i'm also in the process of switching hosts, so any problems should dissipate quickly enough.

Please let me know if you have any further problems loading the site.

Thanks

 

Site is up but seems to have a few glitches

-Forum is not working, SQL error
-Missing images on main page

That's all I took a look at. Will you be patching all this up before transfering? If so, I'm interested.

Thanks,
FG

 

Forum error was entirely my fault - after transfering it to my other server I forgot to update the forums config files. The missing images were most likely due to the transfer too, however all problems should now be resolved.

Man... todays been a hell of a day to try and sell a website!

 

Hi,

Still missing some images on opening page and alignment of top logo off (at least on IE). The missing images seem to be related so some .fm domain, upper right hand corner. Forums are working though so that's good to see.

Still interested but would like to see it fully fixed up which I know is a royal pain in the a** given the lovely treatment your host has been giving you. Good luck!

Thanks,
FG

 

The missing images from the right are actually ads for my station that were hosted on eleven2 and that i've deleted with this whole server move. I'll be removing those anyway when the site sells, since i'm guessing the new owner won't want my personal ads on the site!

The header issue is also easily fixed - i've edited it, but the changes mightn't show until the domain name redirection to the new server resolves. Regardless, it will be fixed before any sale goes through.

I'm happy to give any buyer post-sale assistance with the transfer, installation and early maintenance of the site too, so should anything i'm currently unaware of crop up, i'll be at hand.

 

I bid $130 (corrected from $125) - Thanks!

 

EDIT: Nevermind - thanks for the bid, auction will close at 10.44pm GMT on Thursday 22nd Feb unless further bids are received.

 

$140 .............

 

Thanks for the bid, auction will close at 8.17am GMT on Friday 23rd Feb unless further bids are received.

 

$150 from me...

 

Thanks a lot for the bid - closing in 48hrs unless further bids are made.

Bin reduced to $650 or make me a decent offer

 

200.00 .........

 

$200 bid received, closing Friday at 5,19pm GMT unless further bids are made