Yes, but there are no such things as good and less good domains. It is purely a matter of appreciation. Many big players redirect their main url to a LL, LLL, or LLL or even NL, LN, NLL etc. Spreading load over different servers is easy by setting links rather to some LNLN etc somewhere than keeping it in the same domain (server). This has many advantages. That is why unpronounceable combinations are being sold everyday. The big guys know what they do while most domainers don't. When will people understand that it is content that counts for traffic, and not the domain? It is probable that all short character combinations are being collected right now under our nose. And most cannot be trademarked because they have too many dictionary meanings. A short but fierce acronym boom could be heretomorrow already ...
Great advice and kudos for the effort to share, Alex. I have over time purchased many 4 and 5 letter dot coms using that reasoning you describe. People of the old school of thought, that words must be spelled out and correctly to convey a memorable comprehensive message may find themselves needing a translator to read a simple text message on their cell phone. And cell is rapidly displacing Laptop and PC for internet traffic. The non-English speaking world may not recognize our long winded words but I'll bet they can easily grasp and recall TV or DV or FX or EZ or CD or IQ.
An intelligent marketing strategy for any "old school" operation would be to attract emerging traffic with fresh targeting to a new generation of customers using short (let's call them) new words that blanket advertising could easily implant. (i.e.- The "You deserve a break today" generation still eats at the same place but are in the vast minority and "I'm lovin' it", cause I bought todv.com, tofx.com, ezitv.com, gotcd, among others.
For now I await, I suppose like we all do, for some imaginative well funded easy venture capitalist to sponsor our ambitions. BTW any offers for ezvc.com??? LOL
Great stuff for a newbie like me. On your info i have just regged okhe.net, npax.net...mainly because my partners christian name is pax (which is peace in latin) but it also has 240 backlinks and czic.net (seasick?). Am i on the right track? What is the situation with names that may not have any or only a couple of premium letters but may have traffic or backlinks? How do we evaluate which is a better investment..one with all premium letters or one with non-premium but with traffic? What about one that is pronouncable with no or 1 or 2 premiums as compared to one that is non-pronounceable with all premiums. Is a CVCV or VCVC worth more than a VVCC or CCVV etc???
Just as a matter of interest..i regged dogy.tv which i came across in my search for good nets.
Nice info and a great help in putting things simply. So, what exactly is targeted traffic and how do we determine where the traffic is coming from? As i said one of the names (npax.net) has a couple of hundred backlinks but i have no idea how they got there or if this any value to the name although estibot valuation is $130 and not reg fee like most nets i look at. I do know that there is not an old archived website. One name i have xpes.net has an alexa of 17468444 and does have some traffic. Is that targeted and if so how did you arrive at that? Is this name more valuable than most due to traffic even though it doesn't really pronounce as a good word?
So, do you reckon that say 10 good nets are a better investment say than one mediocre com? Is the name more valuable if some or most or all of the other tlds are taken? And finally, once again, where do you reckon is the better place to resell nets. With 11.5m names on sedo i would be surprised anyone ever stumbled over one of mine in the next 10 years
Just saw this post. I bought hundreds of country codes followed by HQ for headquarters, as well as Canadian provinces and U.S. States but they can also have utility for busnesses.
IThq.mobi can be Italy Headquarters but it can also be Infortmation Technology Headquarters.
NEhq.mobi can be Nebraska Headquarters, New England Headquarters or National Education Headquarters.
Very few seem to agree with me.
Doc
Last edited by MaguirePhD : 06-09-2008 at 11:38 PM.
Would you consider this name a double acronym or double abbreviation?
Would you consider this name a double acronym or double abbreviation?
RXXP.com?
I would just consider that a terrific short, easy to remember domain that can get traffic somewhere.
I agree with the fellow who made an earlier post in this thread, mentioning all this hype about type in traffic.
My personal take on it is. and I will use what is prevalent thinking in the mobi forum, that everything must be intutive type in traffic.
My argument has been that most people are NOT good spellers and if you could not intuitively spell at age 12, how are you going to inutitvely spell at age 35?
Short domains are the answer to get people to sites that they could not spell if you gave them all afternoon to do so.
After passing Carl's Kustom Kar Klinic, Lite and Brite Cleaners, and Sudz and Dudz, is it any wonder that they may have some trouble with intuitve typing of a domain name?
.Net Quad Premium VCVC starting with "A"; 37 million google results!
This domain has massive OVERTURE > 250,560
Wordtracker per day: 9,042
Traffic rank in Mexico of 300,000
NASA have named their world famous rockets Ares
Excellent GEO name
Ares is a town in France (33740 Ares)
Ares is a town in north-western Spain
Popular word in Mexico: Ares Valles; this, along with the Ares area codes, explains the strong traffic coming from Mexico
Brazil also has a popular region called Ares
Numerous towns and villages in Portugal, Mexico, Brazil and Spain have Ares in their name
Ares is also a famous surname in Mexico, Spain and Portugal
Registered in every extension
10 years old
Dictionary meaning: the Greek master of war
Etymology: Greek Arēs
I think the same amount of branding plays a much more effective role for a short catchy, made up name than the natural type-in generic. It seems, to me, people are more prone to remember a branded catchy name.
Shoes[]com -vs- Shooz[]com .... We want to remember the "cool" name (imo). They represent something new and different. And a bit of "rebel" in all of us might see shoes[]com as "old hat".
I know a natural type-in visitor might not be considered "blind traffic" but I think it actually is. Much more blind than a visitor that knows (branded) what to expect on your site.
I agree on the cool name theory.
I own Ringytones.org and Ringytones.mobi and have been advised by traditionalists that it will never get type in traffic. Well, it will get more traffic that geturringtonesnow.com, wegotringtones.com, tonedownload,com etc.
And they only have to get to the site once and bookmark or save in their favorites.
Intuitive type in traffic is overblown.
No one ever got ahead that was behaving.
Doc
P.S. Short letter domains have an ability that longer type in name dont...they are recyclable. I have a 5 letter ..com that has been used for 4 different companies.
Last edited by MaguirePhD : 06-16-2008 at 08:36 PM.
This is a very good observation. Branding the same thing different way.
A domain like DownloadRingtones.com while extremely valuable has only one type of end users, those that want to establish a ringtone related site.
This is not true with short catchy or acronym domains
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