Simtropolis is worth WHAT?!

[jacksunny 741]

According to this, Simtropolis is worth $59,947 , makes $47 a day and gets 15,642 unique visitors per day. It is the 58,043rd most visited website in the world.

Interesting...

[De Ja Vu 117]

Interesting! I bet that at least half of the money this site gets is for maintenance...but how old are those facts? It says that the server is located in Canada and as far as I've heard it has been relocated to somewhere in the states recently...

  Edited July 7, 2011 by De Ja Vu  

[TekindusT 3,809]

@De Ja Vu: According to the Google Maps pic coming with the description, the server is situated in West Dallas, TX; so I guess this data is pretty recent seems that data is updated daily.

EDIT: OK, don't know what to think because now this website doesn't load...

  Edited July 7, 2011 by TekindusT  

[jacksunny 741]

Actually, last night when I checked, it said the server was in Ontario or wherever it was before so this was just updated overnight. The last time it was updated was 2 months ago. It appears Simtropolis has lost money and daily visits.

  Edited July 7, 2011 by jacksunny  

[astronelson 339]

Something tells me that information lacks accuracy. For one thing, it's quite inconsistent from day to day.

Last I checked this site was still Canadian, but Geotool (Firefox plugin) is telling me it's in Dallas too. Might just be a Google error. The site was down for hours when it moved to Toronto, someone would have noticed it being down long enough to move internationally. There would at least be a news item on the front page.

[Sniper296 83]

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Last I checked this site was still Canadian, but Geotool (Firefox plugin) is telling me it's in Dallas too. Might just be a Google error. The site was down for hours when it moved to Toronto, someone would have noticed it being down long enough to move internationally. There would at least be a news item on the front page.

Might be because the site is behind cloudflare, my site's IP changed when I enabled cloudflare, also when the site was first back flagfox said it was in Losangeles.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Geotool (FlagFox) puts it correctly in Dallas. So does the other site now, so someone must have jerked their chain.

[x493x 446]

Interesting how it's worth so much, the only thing I can see earning money is STEX disks, and that can't be worth $60,000.

[GMT 389]

So what? Facebook is worth $52billion and I doubt it's the sale of facebook credits to boost your (profpanity here)-farm or the few bucks for advertising that makes it worth such peanuts.

and it can't be the rating either as google is rated pole position but falls some $20billion behind.

BTW, these seem to by highly dynamic figures, as of right now, simtropolis is only worth $33k and ranks somewhere in the 85000s with about 7000 visitors daily.

In fact, I doubt the monetary figures do represent anything else than a completely theoretical value based on possible traffic

[Schulmanator 5,787]

My site is worth $167... so $33k is not shabby!

[Slashback 136]

@ Schulmanator : Your site is only worth $167? Something is wrong with the world.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I guess that this Wikipedia article [here] will bring more light on that website worth thing; technically known as Domain name appraisal.

Seems that this quote is the one that sums everything up:

Some appraisals take into consideration current traffic to the domain's web site, search engine placement of pages on the web site, but this is of interest primarily to those who might wish to use the domain for advertising placement.