auction listing urls:http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/42049
estimated purchase price: $
BIN: $
slots: 20
each slot: $
Organizer: tbd
Webmaster: tbd
Pledges Remaining: 0
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alexa: 499528
compete: uv
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Social Community for Outdoor Athletes
includes two complete sites with 5-letter domains, servers, code, and data
a turnkey operation
Established: Thu Aug 31 2006
Uniques/Month: 18,750
Page views/month: 36,200
Monthly Revenue (USD): 350
Google Pagerank: 5
Listed: Thu Jul 31 2008
Description:
This auction is actually for our entire company (Get Out Sports Inc.) which includes
two active websites and
17 domain names all geared toward outdoor athletes.
Thoos.com
is the "flagship" of the two sites.
It was the first social networking site devoted to outdoor athletes.
Being a niche site, we don't have huge numbers, but we currently have approximately 5,000 registered and contributing members. Most of the content on the site comes directly from the members, and we have approximately 6,500 user-generated guides and goals, 2,000 user-generated photos, 600 user-generated maps, and 4,500 public member profiles. Additionally, we have other cool features/tools like real-time stream flow reports, for example, displaying live stream flows for 8,000 water sources that get updated every hour.
wrote a nice review of our site not long after we went live.
You can read it here -
http://www.coloradostartups.com/2006/09 ... ther-thing
13,000 unique visitors/mo
26,000 page views/mo
77,800 indexed pages in Google
was one of the first websites devoted to the climbing industry.
It has been a hobby site of mine for a long while (I've owned the name for 9 years), and it has generated a good amount of money from time to time.
It is no longer an active community, but it serves as an archive of information that gets regular visits and has many inbound links.
I get asked frequently when the community would be revived, but I don't have the time.
5,750 unique visitors/mo
10,200 page views/mo
3,320 indexed pages in Google
is the domain where advertisers login to the ad server to manage their ads (when I sell them).
It is also the domain for the parent "company."
Included in this auction are a total of 17 domain names (including the ones above) all relating to outdoor sports. They include:
bikingjournal.com,
bikingplaces.com,
camp4.com,
climbingtalk.com,
climbingtopos.com,
cyclingplaces.com,
favoriterides.com,
favoriteruns.com,
findarun.com,
getoutsports.com,
getoutsports.net,
getoutsports.org,
runningjournal.com,
runningplaces.com,
thoos.com,
thoos.net, and
thoos.org
What you get - 17 domain names (two of which are 5 letter names),
a Dell Poweredge server co-located in Atlanta, GA, all code (custom PHP) for both active sites, and an active community of outdoor athletes in a growing market ripe for development.
I'm going back to grad school next month and I'd hate to see something with so much potential be wasted because I don't have the time to devote to it.
I'd be willing to spend 30 days time to help transition the operation to a new owner.
Revenue Details:
We use the
OpenAds (now Open X) ad server to server ads that we sell,
3rd party affiliates (mainly Sportgenic), and
Adsense.
When we first started, we had more time to sell advertising in-house.
Then we were averaging $300-500/mo.
Now, two kids later and back in graduate school, we just use Google Adsense and Ad affiliates.
Right now we are averaging about $200/mo using just 3rd party ads and Google Adsense. So, the potential is much better than what we are doing.
Traffic Details:
Our traffic is mostly from outdoor athletes interested in sports like:
cycling, camping, climbing, hiking, skiing, surfing, running, fishing, paragliding, horseback, and paddling.
They are searching for social reasons or are looking for guides, places, events, or maps.
Our typical advertisers are
online gear retailers,
guides,
trainers,
gear manufacturers, and
event/race directors.
seller: shudson
sales price: $27,000
bid: 38
comments: 25
Not sure what made this worth $27k to someone.
Looks like it was a bidding war considering the bid count.
sales price: $27,000
bid: 38
comments: 25
Review:
Not sure what made this worth $27k to someone.
Looks like it was a bidding war considering the bid count.
