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Too many webmaster communities for sale

I honestly believe that there is too many webmaster communities for sale at the moment. There is like a new one up for sale every day. And almost everyone of them are very small with few visitors, members, posts, articles etc.

Why do some people create these, and why is there other ones buying these, when there is already a lot of large and very popular webmaster communities? It is really hard to bring something new to this area, and almost just as hard to create something as good. To succeed in creating a good, large and profitable webmaster community you would have to be blessed with some amazing marketing skills.

I think that the main reason for this, is that most of the people creating websites are into webmastering. So it is the obvious thing for them to create since they know about it. The people buying these communities are probably in the exact same situation.

This is what I found of webmaster communities for sale, by browsing about 10 days back in some forums.

• 27/2 aywe.com at DigitalPoint - appraisal w. possible sale
• 26/2 webdevboards.com at NamePros and DigitalPoint - sold
• 21/2 surfer-talk.com at NamePros
• 21/2 webhosterschat.com at NamePros - sold
• 20/2 dnlister.com at SitePoint - sold
• 18/2 webhelpforums.net at NamePros - sold
• 15/2 dnboard.com at Dnforum and NamePros

And then there is this thread where someone wants to buy such forums for their userbase - which makes it pretty clear that it is hard to market such a site and get users. But this guy might be on to something - in some cases it is cheaper and easier to buy other sites to merge with your own than through organic growth.

But as stated I believe there is too many of them for sale. But they are certainly not the only kind of sites that there are too many of being for sale. I also see small image hosting and arcade sites for sale almost everyday.

Tags: webmaster, web development, webmaster community

Add comment February 27th, 2006

Webmaster & Domain forum for Sale: ~3,800 posts

I just spotted a webmaster & domain name forum for sale at NamePros. The forum itself seems pretty dead, but according to the statistics provided by the seller, there is a decent amount of traffic.

The forum is RealDN and it has a pagerank 4. In this month there has been around 13,000 uniques who did ~54,000 pageviews.

The seller wants the bidding to start of at $500, but he has a reserve, and mentions that the right offer will buy immediately. The auction will be for 7 days and seller will post a BIN in a couple of days.

This forum could be a good start to create a community, but remember that there is plenty of webmaster and domain forums already.

There are two things to notice. 1. Theres was a huge drop in traffic in November and December according to the stats. 2. There is a lot of links in the bottom, so the link popularity might be obtained through such link exchanges.

Tags: webmaster forum, webmasters, website auction

Add comment January 27th, 2006