This is a Dutch auction (wiki). The price will start high and decrement on regular basis. Watch this thread auction closely and make sure you do not miss the updates. It is now your opportunity to own a one word, exact match domain name, the most popular keywords today! Domain name comes with website, making around $30-$40 per month from Amazon (an estimate, please read more details below). You can win both domain and website at a fraction of the cost you will usually have to spend for buying this domain/developing this site. Please visit URL for an overview. Site is new, both Google analytic and traffic provider just setup yesterday. Domain is registered with Dynadot. You need to be registered with dynadot to transfer this domain into your account. Domain expiry 2016-04-02 (6 months). Domain renewal price $69. Website is developed using Drupal. It basically import contents (products, articles) from other sources, output these into an various modern displays (smaller screen, larger screen) using a customized Bootstrap theme, automate with user interaction (infinite scroll, auto hide header), manages 404 if it happens, as well as other technical SEO aspects like tags, canonical URL, etc. Also, website does not require a large space (min 256MB) because every product queries is processed on the fly to Amazon database. Depends on the site setting, you can cache some product queries to your server or database, which will require more space (max 1GB, cache cleared periodicallly). Content is not unique, but design is the first of its kind. Site is not using any custom modules, but I had spent considerable hours to configure various modules, custom javascripts, and a custom theme to make the site "Just work". Like Drupal, everything is licensed under GPL. You can easily use and reuse the codes to whatever you want to do or to apply on any other websites you want. Why does Dutch-auction and how does it work? Website/domain auctions are not as busy as they were some years ago, and bids are rare. This can be seen from DP marketplace as well. A Dutch auction manage to leverage this auction. Here, the auction BIN price is the same as the auction reserved price, but the auction reserved price is lowered from time to time. Bid decrement $50 (I will try to log on here every 12 hours at minimum to reduce the BIN price). First bidder will always win, assuming you met the reserved. Reply "SOLD" and these gem will be yours. Any other bids will not be considered. Why are you selling this site? I am a webmaster who likes to buy niche domains and build thematic sites. I build websites by order, or with intention to sell, and if did not sell well I will manage it on my own. Included with the sale Domain Website Free transfer to your hosting Free assistance via Skype (for one month, require scheduling) or email (ongoing). Configuring with your Amazon API key/ID tag, site verifications (Bing, Google, Yandex, Pinterest, Baidu), ads placement, and such. Any customization that do not need more than 3 hours to fix. Traffic for 90 days (This, is still to see; I had purchased this service from third source provider. We can watch how they perform from stats here.) All sales are final. Apart from above mentioned, I do not accept any support requests regarding this sale. How is it monetized? This is an Amazon search engine/shopping cart, so most of revenue will come from Amazon. Income, as stated above, is an estimate. In my previous site, I spent $15 to experiment with three different providers/services, and one of them brought a good result. I will reveal this provider to the new owner. Does this site come with any social media accounts? No How much time does this site take to run? Almost none. Site runs automatically without interference. Some maintenance will necessary when some modules or themes get an updates, but most of times these are OK to dismiss. What challenges are there with running this site? The challenge comes in various stages: If you are more keen to marketing but not into web development, this site comes automated --you do not even need to log onto the site. You can hire someone once every 3 months on Fiverrs to check if there are any updates to the modules/themes, change banners, etc. Or better: send me an email and I will assist you how to do it. You still have to do it yourself, but you will love it. If you have the basics for Drupal: you will have no problem at all to maintain or to scale this. If you are used to Wordpress, and never use Drupal: You will have a problem.
Price updated! Now for sale for $800 only! Somebody might ask, why Drupal over Wordpress? I spent the last three days configuring an idle VPS box, and came up with this idea: to showcase Drupal power. This website value isn't only about domain name, which is exclusive, but also the machine that is powering it. It was a very small box, only 128MB RAM, I can not even install mysql server there. I only learned after several OS reinstalls (actually I can, but not worth maintaining it). I put a backup of the site in auction here, The Gadget Show, onto that box, and created a clone of it called Gadgets Oooooo (I forgot how many O's are there ) Please check these sites: gadget.so and dev.gadget.so. Also check the servers using IP tools. Both servers are distant apart, but it runs on the same database, and each sites have its own unique look. Basically, I am trying to say: with Drupal you can have several sites based on a single code, several databases. You can also have several sites running on exactly one database (no need to create a different database/database prefix) with many sets of flies (exactly similar) spread on differents hosts. It is easier to do than to say, but I will try to put more description a little bit. All above, comes with the pre-shipped capabilities of Drupal called multi-sites. There are are many ways to achieve or to scale multi-sites on Drupal, but I employed the most basic Drupal capabilites here: remote database, and site specific variables called $conf. (Hmmmm ... I am revealing secrets here. Although very basic, these are not very common either for creating multisites. But carry on reading). Due to being site specific, variables that are configured using $conf will not be stored in database. But instead, Drupal will store theme specific settings, irrelevant of which site/URL are using them. Each sites uses different settings.php, which define its own $conf; Drupal doesn't store these $conf, but when Drupal finds ones, it will output them onto each sites. Very simple. Just two lines of codes: # $conf['site_name'] = ''; # $conf['theme_default'] = ''; There is another way (more common one, and also comes pre-shipped with Drupal) to achieve multi-site, and also relevant with this auction. I will write later. So, if you are interested, follow this thread, or post a reply, or send me PM. Do not shy!
Just before I leave today: Price reduced! You can now buy this highly potential money making site for $700! (Next post will be in about 12 hours)
Price updated! BIN lowered to just $650! Will reveal some Drupal multisites secrets later, so keep watching! (And million thanks for keep reading )
Time for more secrets. In my example above, I have two separate Drupal installs, but one exact match of settings.php (except for two specific details). FYI, a drupal site is governed by a file called settings.php. This file contains information about database connection (name, passwd, user, host, port), as well as some site specific settings such as theme, site name, anyonymous user name, and more. You can have one script, and unlimited settings.php (tested by Drupal users). What does it means? It means you can build unlimited Amazon store with different site name (either sub-domains or TLDs), running on a single machine, with one database for several stores and another database for different niche (e.g Apparel, Books, Outdoor Gears, Traveller Gears, or even only some specific products of Samsung tablets). Best of all, these items are auto-updated, they aren't stored into your servers (fetched automatically using Amazon API), you make money while you sleep (of course, your sites still require traffic). Oh, and price updated, now you can buy this machine along with its premium domain, gadget, for $600! Price will be decreased in approx. 12 hours.
$550! It is getting nearer to the actual reserved price. Less than 5 days, either sold or not, this website will be taken off sale.
Now for the question: What can I do in 3 hours? This I can help you: using the method described above, I can built 3 more niche sites. Choose one of these niches: Apparel Appliance Arts And Craft Automotive Baby Beauty Books Classical Digital Music DVD Electronic Fashion Gift Cards Gourmet Food Grocery Health/Personal Care Home and Garden Industrial Jewelry Kindle Store Kitchen Lawn And Garden Luggage MP3 Downloads Magazines Miscellaneous MobileApps Music Music Tracks Musical Instruments Office Products Outdoor Living PC Hardware Pet Supplies Photo Shoes Software Sporting Goods Tools Toys Unboxed Video VHS Video Video Games Watches Wireless Wireless Accessories Actually may be 6 or more, but spare the rest of time for choosing different themes, customizing CSS and layouts. And the price is updated! You can now buy the site and the theme behind it for $500!
Quick! Time is running! If it doesn't sold for the next couple of days, it will be taken off market and no more chance to purchase the domain name, the Drupal machine that empowers it (including my free support!) Price is lowered to $350! Type SOLD below here if you are interested or ask me more!
Price updated! BIN lowered to $300! Within 36 hours domain will be taken off market, auction will be closed. Act now while you can!
Price updated! BIN lowered! $250 only! Within less than 24 hours it will be taken off market, so act now while you can!
Taken off market. It has 1209 views, less than half probably mine. Thanks for viewing this auction! If you would like to offer, possibly at lower price, just send me a PM and I will surely reply!