Giveaway Domains

[tombsc]

Search for what you want on The domain is available for purchase*-*Sedo.co.uk

[nickjett]

Originally Posted by tombsc

I don't think it's worth any more than £50, so if anyone wants it I don't think it would cost too much.

I dont think its worth more than £0 barlely any backlinks and brand name crapped all over! Who would want that?

I could understand if it had loads of backlinks, so maybe establishing Giveaway in other directions, maybe just Adsense! But it doesnt, so whats the point!?

[xploit]

Anyone still got the .xls file of the domains as it was hosted on giveaway.co.uk but now no longer available plz pm me if u have it

[arcticfox]

Originally Posted by nickjett

I dont think its worth more than £0 barlely any backlinks and brand name crapped all over! Who would want that?

I guess newbies to the free gift "scene" wouldn't have a clue who giveaway were or any of the old networks so it would only be oldies like me who would remember the name and I guess a little bit of text saying that you have no connection with the previous domain owners might help.

I enquired about one of the domains (can't remember which one) but didn't even get a reply.

[tombsc]

Originally Posted by nickjett

I dont think its worth more than £0 barlely any backlinks and brand name crapped all over! Who would want that?

I could understand if it had loads of backlinks, so maybe establishing Giveaway in other directions, maybe just Adsense! But it doesnt, so whats the point!?

The value is in the name, the brand is trashed but that is old news now. The domain name giveaway.com is probably fairly valuable as it would rank well for the keyword giveaway - but that's probably it.

If it was £20 I'd buy it, but if you look at the kind of money they sell domains for it looks like they are expecting 3 figures and I don't think it's worth it.

[Steve-UK]

I'd be very surprised if they were expecting 3 figure sums. The best TLD's of my full name are owned by various holding companies and they're demanding £10,000+ for release; this with my name being nothing special.

The hit rate alone generated by Giveaway would hike the price well up above those figures, if they're selling them for less than that then they're foolish.

Purely in terms of SEO these domains are an invaluable goldmine; especially to other network operators. Simply by 301 (Moved Permanently) redirecting the domains to the network homepage (or respective gift site) would have a significant impact on through traffic and Google ranking.

The obvious concern as mentioned above is of course any negative press taken from Giveaway shoddy end of operations; but was there much bad press? I feel the freebie industry is fairly poorly documented (aside from here on eXceem) and with the vast majority of the public being understandably sceptical to the entire process prior to even considering it on a per-network basis; does it really matter? I'd imagine it's nothing that couldn't be negated entirely simply stipulating in your about / terms that you're entirely unaffiliated with Giveaway and Fusion Media.

Saying this I'm not going to buy any of the domains for operation on Easy Freebie; but I don't see why anyone else shouldn't. It's more than likely not profitable to network users, the price of a domain will far outweigh the cost of purchasing your item(s) yourself; but it's definitely something other networks (FreebieJeebies) should put some serious thought towards if they haven't already.

[xploit]

so anyone still got the .xls of the domain names?

[nickjett]

Originally Posted by Steve-UK

I'd be very surprised if they were expecting 3 figure sums. The best TLD's of my full name are owned by various holding companies and they're demanding £10,000+ for release; this with my name being nothing special.

The hit rate alone generated by Giveaway would hike the price well up above those figures, if they're selling them for less than that then they're foolish.

Purely in terms of SEO these domains are an invaluable goldmine; especially to other network operators. Simply by 301 (Moved Permanently) redirecting the domains to the network homepage (or respective gift site) would have a significant impact on through traffic and Google ranking.

The obvious concern as mentioned above is of course any negative press taken from Giveaway shoddy end of operations; but was there much bad press? I feel the freebie industry is fairly poorly documented (aside from here on eXceem) and with the vast majority of the public being understandably sceptical to the entire process prior to even considering it on a per-network basis; does it really matter? I'd imagine it's nothing that couldn't be negated entirely simply stipulating in your about / terms that you're entirely unaffiliated with Giveaway and Fusion Media.

Saying this I'm not going to buy any of the domains for operation on Easy Freebie; but I don't see why anyone else shouldn't. It's more than likely not profitable to network users, the price of a domain will far outweigh the cost of purchasing your item(s) yourself; but it's definitely something other networks (FreebieJeebies) should put some serious thought towards if they haven't already.

Eh what, who his going to type in Giveaway.co.uk in the address bar? The answer barely anyone!
And for SEO purposes, its not a goldmine! How have you worked that out? It has **** all backlinks, all the thousands of backlinks it used to have are gone, any that are left will disappear also. All 301 redirect does is point the backlinks to the domain you redirect to!

If you type in giveaway , Giveaway.co.uk dosnt appear in top 20, cant be arsed to look any further cus i know its not a goldmine! Buy it yourself if you think its worth it so much, lol!

WHo ever buys this for stupid amounts of money is the fool!

[Steve-UK]

Originally Posted by nickjett

Eh what, who his going to type in Giveaway.co.uk in the address bar? The answer barely anyone!
And for SEO purposes, its not a goldmine! How have you worked that out? It has **** all backlinks, all the thousands of backlinks it used to have are gone, any that are left will disappear also. All 301 redirect does is point the backlinks to the domain you redirect to!

If you type in giveaway , Giveaway.co.uk dosnt appear in top 20, cant be arsed to look any further cus i know its not a goldmine! Buy it yourself if you think its worth it so much, lol!

WHo ever buys this for stupid amounts of money is the fool!

You're right, very few people will type a Giveaway domain into the address bar; disregarding the few that might based on seeing a poster/leaflet that may still remain somewhere that a referee has distributed.

The value lies in all the legitimate referral links that have been posted around the internet on reputable sites, forums, in blog posts, in signatures etc. those are all still linking somewhere and at present anyone clicking them is simply reaching a dead end. Forwarding that traffic onto another website is of course of value; it gives you X more links to your website in an instant (or at least once DNS propagates).

The full value left from the Google Rank is as you said more than likely gone; but I think at least somewhat of the value could be recuperated if executed correctly. After-all Google Rank amongst other things ranks you based upon links to you; in essences if already popular websites link to you: your Google Rank goes up. How could having the additional links to your site via links to these sites not help?

I leave it up to others to do the maths and assess whether it's profitable after offsetting the cost to purchase one of these domains; all I'm saying is that it's at least worth consideration by network operators.