The domains Macaroni.com and Ravioli.com dropped yesterday.
One was picked up by NameJet.com the other by SnapNames.com.
One currently has a high bid of $5,555 the other has a high bid of $2,666.
So which one will sell for more, Macaroni.com or Ravioli.com?
Which one do you think is worth more?
On the surface, Ravioli b/c it has meat in it and that is more expensive than pasta.
However, there may be a ton of traffic behind Macaroni.com b/c of the Macaroni Grill restaurant chain……just a guess though. I have one similar one word domain like Macaroni.com that gets restaurant traffic from 1,000 to 1,500 uniques every day. I offered it to the restaurant years ago for $10,000 when they asked for a price and they walked. It makes a lot of money now. Macaroni.com might be one of these types.
Another strong point for Macaroni.com is that you can make a ton of recipes with macaroni, but not so with ravioli.
What is amazing is that both seem to have been owned by Barilla, which is one of the world’s largest (if no the largest) producers of pasta.
They – or rather their IP attorneys who were listed as the admin contacts – let them expire…
how terrible. I say macaroni.
UPDATE
Thanks for sharing
Macaroni.com is at over $30K and ravioli.com is at $5,700
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I was too late to jump in the Macaroni auction, but I’m not surprised at the current bid of $30,000.
I expect ravioli to go into the high 4 figures.
Barilla also had ragout, currently on auction at Pool. Not as good because the term should have a diacritical mark in it, and also the term is a bit too specific, but nice, nonetheless. Currently at $220 with four hours to go.
I’m not sure why Barilla let these category killers go–I suspect that the company is in trouble OR their domain department fell asleep at the helm.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some heads roll at Barilla.
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Of course, Macaroni.com
Wouldn’t surprise me to see Barilla file UDRPs on these, if and when they discover they lost them.
They shouldn’t get them back, but we all know how that works, don’t we.
im tired of UDRP comments. u people need to get a life
Hi i am italian and macaroni isn’t correct. tTe right word is Maccheroni, so i think it’s better Ravioli.com that’s right in english and italian.
Macaroni.com sounds better and most commonly use.
Macaroni = wop so I say it’s worth $59k
I am sure that macaroni.com is as consider amburgher.com a good name for hamburger.com, but that’s auction game.
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Ravioli went for $10,501.
Ragout for $452.
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I am reading that sax.com is for sale at 100.000$, so each one can taste the difference.
“Macaroni.com sounds better and most commonly use.”
it’s not the right name in Italy, but, the macaroni.com domain, clearly isn’t devoted to the italian market
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I undestand this but i added my comment to contribute in different way to discuss. I think there’s a great auction effect to those prices. In Italy we can see that backorder domain service with hidden auction prices (the only one accepted by law) considerly decrease the price of dropped domains. I mean that when you decide the right price, but this isn’t visible by other bidders, and the winner is the highest offer, all bidders are shifting down prices. (i am sorry for my english). The auction with visible prices is as a lottery and each one increase his price as a game.
I would really love for someone to explain to me the sharp difference in price reached by Macaroni.com (sold at over $70k) and Ravioli.com (just over $10k).
Ravioli.com gets more trafffic. Ravioli.com has more natural end users to sell to.
Is it simply the difference between SnapNames and NameJet??? More money being spent at NameJet and more enthusiasm?
I guess, I dont’t get it.
Ravioli.com, imho should of whent for more then Macaroni.com !
Why?
“Ravioli” is the correct spelling in 5 languages.
Macaroni is the correct spelling in only 3 languages.
“Macaroni is the correct spelling in only 3 languages.”
no, “macaroni” isn’t the correct spelling in any language, but, probably, it’s more common than ravioli, since used, not only when talking about cuisine, but also (and UNFORTUNATELY) in movies, TV shows, by comedians or (BAD) when talking about italians (using stereotyped terms)
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Would probably be an easy resell to Macaroni Grill.
Maybe they were behind the purchase in the first place?
Macaroni and Cheese. . .one of the biggest selling boxed meals of all time. Macaroni.com by far is the superior domain imho
Andrew whered you get the idea that ravioli would get more traffic ? Google searches? Compete doesn’t even show ravioli registering on their radar. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ravioli.com+macaroni.com/
I bet most ravioli searches happen because people want recipes. Everyone knows what they can do with macaroni . 🙂
Lastly, the snap vs namejet effect. For sure is a factor You can’t ignore it. As an example, I picked up a name today for ~$300 at snap that had a PRE-drop bid on namejet of $2,500. . . Either the namejet pre-bid was fake or people are pulling back at snap. . . or both 🙂
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probably the macaroni.com domain has been sold to a restaurant that has it as main recipe or to a company that produces “macaroni”
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Macaroni.com is worth more, because the numbers say so. Macaroni has compete and ravioli doesn’t, and that is not by coincidence. Not to mention many other indicators.
I didn’t bid on it either, because frankly $30k is IMO over 8 years ROI.
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I think the buyers of these domains want to USE them for a site rather than only get traffic by their very common names
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