Premium Domain: Halflife.org

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Tyler

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Premium Domain: Halflife.org


Introduction

I am selling the prestigious domain Halflife.org. I've just recently acquired this domain with the intention of possibly flipping it for a profit, which is why I'm selling it. I do not plan on selling it under $x,xxx - so if no interested parties are interested in that range, I will be developing the site myself.

What is Halflife?

Halflife is the 6th most popular computer game of all time. Ask any gamer what Halflife is, and they'll be able to tell you. Ever hear of Counterstrike or the many other similar mods? They're all mods of Halflife.

Halflife 2 came out with a major bang, revolutionizing the FPS (first-player-shooter) world. Valve, the company behind Halflife, has since decided to release all future Halflife games at a much quicker pace, in distributions called Edisodes. Halflife 2: Episode 1 has already been released, and Halflife 2: Episode 2 is due to be released in about a month, where a new mod called Portal, and the much anticipated sequal to Team Fortress Classic, Team Fortress, will be shipped with it. The faster development of these makes Halflife even more prevelent and known in the gaming industry.

Domain Statistics

-> #2 on MSN for "halflife"
-> Google PR of 4
-> 5,000 Google results for "halflife.org"
-> Has been a developed site since 1998-2005 (Archive.org)
-> Over 3 million results on Google for "halflife"
-> Halflife.com is currently for sale for $1,000,000

Backlinks:

Google: 14
MSN: 507
Yahoo: 666

Versatility

Love the domain but not exactly sure what to do with it? Here are just a handful of ideas:

-> Forum; can't get a better domain for a Halflife forum..
-> Turn into a quick-n-dirty site and use PPC Arbitrage on it
-> Become an affiliate and sell HL games, merchandise, etc.
-> Develop into a large HL site

Legalities?

Most serious potential buyers will be concerned about possible copyright/trademark issues with the domain. I'm not a lawyer, so I ccannot advise you legally here, but I will provide you with some background info.

Valve is a company who welcomes free publicity, not one who repels it (such as our beloved Microsoft). Halflife.com is currently on sale for $1,000,000 and Halflife.us is for sale too. There are TONS of MAJOR sites with 'halflife' in domain such as Halflife2.net and HalflifeSource.com. You'd think these sites wouldn't exist if Valve wanted to sue them.

I honestly don't think there would be any problem whatsoever in terms of legalities.

Payment Details

I can accept payment via PayPal, Neteller, or Bank Wire.

If you're interested, please contact me at tylercruz@gmail.com - do not PM me here as I rarely check PM's.

Thanks!
 


Interesting. Not trying to shit on your parade, but if the DP seller couldn't get $999 for it, why do you believe that you can get $x,xxx for it? Also, just because the asking price on the dot com is $1,000,000 doesn't mean they will get that.

Here's some more numbers for you, they may help, they may not:

Wordtracker:
half life 2 - 982 predicted searches per day, competition (per Google when entering keyword in quotes) 18 million +
half life - 978 predict, comp 30 million +
half life 2 cheats - 177 predict, comp 1.32 mil
halflife (one word) - 94 predict 3 mil +

Good luck! I hope you get a lot of money for your domain!
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Interesting. Not trying to shit on your parade, but if the DP seller couldn't get $999 for it, why do you believe that you can get $x,xxx for it?

I knew somebody would say something like that :)

Just because one or two previous owners couldn't sell it for $999 doesn't mean I'm not allowed to try, does it?

I've done a ton of flipping before, many on simple domains that have been on the market multiple times or for a lengthy period, often selling them for 2-3x as much as the original sellers were trying to get for them... it doesn't hurt to put the domain out there.

Why sell for $2000 when I can sell for $6000, right?

Cheers,

Tyler
 
gotta say, whatever you might get for that domain name should be nice. the halflife franchise will be around for years. nice grab!
 
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