That's how I started valuing websites! I had a harsh reality check when I learned how sites are usually valued
Common people. You know that this site earns over $30,000 a month just in Adsense ads. This site has over a million page impressions a day and you think he would sell it for only a mil? Hmmmm...
I'm assuming we are just talking about the forum part of Digital Point here... You guys need to look at the bigger picture. The forum itself isn't responsible (directly) for much income. Whoever said/thinks the forum makes $30,000/month is sadly mistaken. That being said, I wouldn't sell just the forum for $5M, because it has indirect value (to me) that is more than that. Having a large userbase gives you a very easy way to launch new ideas and get them out there quickly (so to someone else that doesn't have new things to launch, it wouldn't be worth it to them)... http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/ http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/ etc, etc... Think of it like MySpace but on a smaller scale... recent valuations of MySpace have it as being worth $10B to their parent company, simply because of what it can do for them (in terms of other things), not because they generate enough direct income to put the valuation that high. If you are talking about trying to put a valuation on Digital Point Solutions (the entire company), it's been valued by large venture capitol companies in the 9 figure zone. That doesn't take into account the fact that I wouldn't sell it anyway because it's my "baby", so unless you have 10-figures (cash) laying around, you can stop thinking about buying it (the forum is the small part of Digital Point).
Wow, that's a lot of money. But let's say if someone (company) is interested in buying the whole DP solution, what service/product do they expect to get in return for >$1B ??
Anyway , i think that many people from here, will accept to donate one of theyre kidney for the DP domain name
70 to 75 million reason is simple , donot just consider current value , look at growth , 100-200 affiliates join it , or assume that one super affiliate is atleast joining DP per day ... and if it joins under DP and earn $10 m , DP is going to make $1m from single member .... however top world networks are sold about 60 to 70 million . DP should not be less than it keeping in mind huge growth of this forum .
Why does someone always have to ask this question every month? Who cares, there are thousands of sites more valuable than dp.