Selling a domain name with a #1 Google Rank

[wonder_lander]

I'm looking for ideas on suggested sales routes for a domain I have.

It's pier/co/uk and was owned by an online and high street homewares retailer that went pop in 2008.

Currently the domain still ranks in Google at position 1 for the term "The Pier" which was what the company was called. Would it be worth marketing it to someone like a digital agency?

If there's no legs or benefit in the rank for the term then I'll just keep it waiting for offers!

 

[bonusmedia]

Adwords suggests monthly searches of 2,900 with a suggested PPC bid of £0.06 - so not a commercially useful term unfortunately.

I can't imagine many people are looking for the homewares company after 9 years.

I'd suggest most of those searches are for the film of the same name.

Some will be for the restaurants/hotels, those must be your most likely customers?

 

[ian]

It is possibly too generic to take full advantage of still holding that position. You'd have to find an existing company that would hugely benefit from rank #1, so you'd be talking a countrywide service, and beyond, rather than a local restaurant (as an example). Great name though.

 

[wonder_lander]

You'd be surprised how many people still email asking where they can get a replacement dinner plate or vase! There's still a lot of old links to the domain from lifestyle articles.

Thanks for the thoughts, I'll keep hold for now!

 

[DomainManage]

..you could make a directory containing all the long walks off a short pier.

 

[wonder_lander]

I already own the-pier/co/U.K. Which i had quite a few Pier articles written about.

Also last week I set up my own company Pier Consultancy for my IT Consultancy business