DudeRanch.com
👤 Peter Askew (Solo operator in Georgia. His edge: knowing which expired .com IS a niche's front door — he grabbed DudeRanch.com for $17,949.)🌐 siteaskew.org𝕏LinkedIn
You don't need a business idea — just the category's .com. Peter buys the exact-match domain and rents it to a niche.
Will it work? · our read
The domain wins. A $17,949 domain became a near-passive $50K/yr directory; only costs are renewal + hosting. Uncopyable — one DudeRanch.com exists. A lifestyle ceiling, not a rocket.
01How the money moves
Buy the category's exact-match .com ($17,949)
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Domain pulls free type-in + SEO traffic — the obvious front door
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Ranches pay $250-500/yr to list → about $50K/yr, near-pure margin
02The numbers
$50.5KStated/yr TTM · solo · sold '25
2025-08-17
Only expenses are domain renewal + hosting, so revenue is near-pure profit. founder on X
$50,575 TTM, founder-stated (Aug 2025). Only costs: domain renewal + hosting — near-pure profit.
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- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
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Peter Askew on X — sale note: '$225k ask, TTM $50,575' (Aug 2025)The Bootstrapped Founder — Peter Askew on domain expertise (Arvid Kahl)DomainInvesting.com — Peter Askew sells DudeRanch.com (Sept 2025)NamePros — 'I acquired DudeRanch.com for $17,949'Indie Hackers — Why I re-acquired DudeRanch.com
Revenue $50,575 is founder-disclosed on X (TTM, Aug 2025) — STATED and verified first-party. The $17,949 buy price and the re-acquisition are documented (NamePros, Indie Hackers). Final 2025 sale price undisclosed and is not a revenue figure. We never score you.