Sale on multiple domain- and webmaster forums, presented by me and my colleague Pavsta (NamePros ID: Pavsta2) for PHP.bz.
This is not an auction, there's no timeframe in which the site needs to be sold, and PHP.bz we will only sell if we get a satisfactory offer.

(update 08-23-04) Adding an asking price: $850


Buy with confidence from me, a forum member in excellent standing, who has successfully completed many, many domain sales; here, as well as on various other national & international domain- and webmaster forums.
:)





OK then:
- Currently 350,000,000+ Google results for 'PHP' (varies!)
- Currently 64107 Overture (USA) for 'PHP'
- Overture 'Advertiser's Max Bid' for 'PHP': $0.35 (varies!)
- Current Alexa Traffic Rank: 838,530
- PageRank is 2
- An average of 3850 uniques a month (number is based on traffic from April/May/June/July 2004), with no recent (new) promotion of the site.
- Highly targeted, brandable name; PHP dot BZ 'rhymes' (in english anyway), it's as short as a PHP site's name can be, (and) 100% to the point!
- Potentially a very nice way to make money by putting your own AdSense ads -or other advertising- on it!


Sale will include:
- My domain name PHP.bz, registered at NameCheap.com 'till Dec. 01, 2004 and which will require a (free!) 'push' there into your NameCheap account. NameCheap acounts are 100% free to set up and without any obligations. Know that the .BZ renewel at NameCheap is $28.88 p/year.
- The Site (Designed by Pavsta. So it's not a purchased/free template type site.
- The 3 PHP scripts that are listed/available for download on PHP.bz*
- The .PSD, (layered) .TIFF, .JPEG and .GIF files of these versions of the original logo that I designed for the site!
- Also, if you'd need help with installation of the site, Pavsta can help (= free).
(Sale Excludes hosting)


Other relevant info:
The PHP.bz site has been going since mid-March 2004, when Pavsta and I teamed up, and the stats shown here kicked on March 31, towards midnight; hence the sudden jump from '7' for March to '4000+' in April.
Much of the traffic has been, and is coming from sites like HotScripts.com. See:
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/32923.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/33284.html
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/33171.html
It's likely that PHP.bz will 'always' get much traffic from HotScripts, because when you view scripts for a certain topic there, it goes in order of 'sponsored' first, then ones that were added in the last few days, and then on ratings + number of refferals you have made as a user. Pavsta has made over 3,000 refferals to hotscripts, which is why in the appropriate categories the PHP.bz scripts are high up in the script-'hierarchy'! Pavsta will keep the scripts listed using his account; if you wish 'forever'! Unless, of course, you have a better account there and would thus want to list them in there.

Of course we don't get all our traffic from the HotScripts site; we are also listed on sites such as FreeScripts.com:
http://www.freescripts.com/script/494.html
http://www.needscripts.com/Resource/19703.html
http://www.webscriptsdirectory.com/P...curity!-L1074/
http://w100w.com/english/php/user_management/
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...ile_Uploading/
http://hagen.let.rug.nl/~s1420887/congres/links.htm
http://www.developal.com/scripts/scripts232.html
Etc.!
Plus we get traffic from various directories, from various search engines, and some from our own sites such as Pavsta.com, DomainEbooks.com and DomainDose.com!

No traffic has been bought, or otherwise 'artificially' generated/obtained!



Payment:
- Western Union, or
- PayPal, for people who have been a member 'in good standing' at the forum where (s)he purchses PHP.bz, and/or with whom I have done business successfully already several times.
- The buyer needs to claim the site as SOLD in this sales thread, and next
- Payment has to be made by buyer within 48 hours of me having confirmed his/her purchase in this thread.


Thanks! Let the offers come in!


* The 'IP' and 'Upload' scripts were developed by Pavsta.
Upon ownership of PHP.bz, you will have exclusive rights to the 'IP' and the 'Upload' scripts; you may do with them whatever you want! The 3rd script -named 'Azura'... The best of the 3!- was developed by Pavsta in partnership with Cscartman of Azura Network Inc. and will be included with the PHP.bz site, but will not come with exlusive/ownership rights. For example, you will be allowed to offer it on the site as a free download, but you are not allowed to sell it, and it can not be renamed. Plus, the Azura script file will always have to say it's in partnership Cscartman of Azura Network Inc.


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Also some of you may be getting held back because of the extension .bz well think of it this way:

Most the visitors that visit the site are people that work with php and therefore php.bz is an easy and short domain to remember, and people that do work with php know about different extensions and the .bz would be just like a .net or .com to them.

I know it would be worth loads more if it was .com but to the visitors the .bz doesn't make a huge difference.

Yes, this site is still for sale. Get your offers in (starting in the mid-$xxx).
The offers so far have not been satisfactory...

Next, an update from NameCheap.com, which explains why the PHP.bz is currently not functioning:

Namecheap.com - Technical Maintenance (August 21, 2004 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM EST)
Due to technical maintenance, Namecheap.com will not be available from Saturday August 21, 2004 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM EST. Domain management can not be performed during that time. We appreciate your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.

Great timing, oui? :blink:

Cheers,
Rob

Highest offer so far is $550.



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Adding an asking price:

$850



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No further offers, then? The $550 offer (as well as the various lower ones) we did not accept; feel free to PM us/post a higher offer. As mentioned, the asking price is $850, but that is negotionable.

Best,
Rob

Highest offer so far: $600 (at DNF).
I'll talk it over with pavsta and then we'll decide yes or no. :)

(Higher offers from other people still welcome, of course)

Cheers,
Rob

stats updated! after those few days of downtime :( because of my server crashing (not because of php.bz just hosting problems) and also namecheap going down for maintence (very rare) we are back up to our AVG of 100 - 150 uniques a day, but as i said earlier on this thread that this month we will end up with a lower overall monthly stats result compared to our average because of the downtime hopefully your hosting is better then mine lol.

Also recently just to view what type of people use the script, i have added my aim contact details to the README file and have had lots of aim's, not really for help but to say how 'useful' the scripts are to there websites, there have been a huge range of different people, but the 2 most popular types i have found are: small time programmers/graphic creators (USING IP SECURITY + FILE UPLOADER) and fansite owners (USING AZURA SCRIPT)

I have had alot of questions about the Azura Script from you guys, so ill tell you all:

The Azura Script is not exclusive to php.bz but you will have the right to rename, edit and even charge for the usage and downloading of it, but you will not become the owner of it and may not in any way claim ownership of it, the owner is actually me as i have bought my friends share of it, i shall be creating a site where you can download it (the second site on the web where you can get it) so its not like all over the net, and i will be giving out a modified and renamed version of it so parts of your particular version guess will be unique to php.bz but some of the files will be in usage at my new site. Remember you may rename the script and also dont have to put copyright to me as long as you dont try to claim ownership of it! GOOD LUCK!

Any questions PM me

SOLD at $600 at one of the other domain forums.



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