Please appraise"HOWTOBLOG.COM" I JUST BOUGHT THIS DOMAIN FROM EXPIRED AUCTION.PLEASE APPRAISE THIS DOMAIN FOR ME.
Really great name/brand for someone looking to make a tutorial site. If I wanted the domain I would probably go as high as $50-$100. Just because it's great for branding.
HowToBlog is regged in com/net/org/info/biz/us/ca/co.uk/tv/mobi (yes even mobi) and probably more. Gets 14,800 exact monthly searches. Similar (longer) domains with this in the string get even larger searches, like 'how to start a blog' at over 60,000, 'how to make a blog' at over 22,000, 'how to create a blog' at over 33,000, etc. It is obviously a hugely popular topic and yours is the shortest and most attractive of all of them. Great going. After 80 bids i won an auction and got this domain for 876 dollars finally.i was ready to pay upto 1200 dollars.but in last 2 seconds i outbidded the highest bid of 875 dollars and got it for myself at 876.hope i got a good deal.what u guys say This is a very very nice name. Blogging is huge. 'How to' sites are huge.
You paid reasonable amount for this domain name but if you are not thinking about establishing it you will never sell it further. Make sure that you put perfect business plan in place and start building because it is worth establishing and then flipping as established website.
It is a good domain, if it's for development (I think it was a bit expensive, but I can see it paying off in a couple of years if you establish good trust in Google). Although it's with age, it's not going to count for much as it has been parked for a lot of its life. There isn't an already established brand that Google trusts, so it's down to you to do that work. However, I think you've hit the absolute max already for "end user" value, at this time (until it is developed and with traffic and revenue). Good luck.