Using an .ES Domain for a Premium Spanish Wording Also Did .Com Your Opinion Please

A few challenges here with .ES registrations - they require you submit photo ID documentation to register the name. Renewals are much higher than .COM. I actually acquired a nice aftermarket .ES a couple years but it was such an administrative hassle and the renewals so high I ended up dropping the name.

Another issue is that if you don't speak Spanish well, you will make mistakes. Would you register the following domains:

ShoesTennis.com
ShoesDress.com
ShoesWomens.com

Why not? The words are not in the proper order. That is what you have done with your example. The proper wording would be ZapatosParaBebes.com

Even if that domain were available it is perhaps too specific as most companies which sell shoes for babies also sell shoes for toddlers, young children, youth, teenagers, etc. Unless the domain has type-in traffic or significant search volume , they may or may not be interested in such a domain. I suspect there probably is some search volume for that phrase but type-in traffic on a three-word .COM probably won't be very high. Keep in mind that in most Spanish-speaking countries, the default TLD is their CCTLD, .ES for Spain, .COM.MX for Mexico, .COM.CO for Colombia, etc

Saludos,
GARP

Thanks for Info I Registered ES on Godaddy With No Hassles

Thanks for all your helpful info, I see once more things might have looked too good & maybe I screwed up again. One thing I'm a bit confused: I just registered 2 ES domains on Godaddy and the registration went through without photo ID's etc.

Not speaking Spanish I used an English-Spanish Translator and then put the terms in a Google Search using the exact wording "before and after the words" and they also came out fine. Yours on that translator came out Shoes for Baby and interestingly enough had over 6 Million his as opposed to my million plus hits!

I just registered and was surprised it was available "BARCOSPARALAVENTA.ES" BARCOS PARA LA VENTA.ES which was Boats for Sale in Spanish. Do you come up with something else as well? Again I used the same process noted above.

If you are interested in selling any of the above for 25% of the Net Sale (Sales Price After Auction/Sales/Transfer Fees) please let me know privately as you obviously know what you're doing. Thanks for your help.

Planet9 said:

Thanks for all your helpful info, I see once more things might have looked too good & maybe I screwed up again. One thing I'm a bit confused: I just registered 2 ES domains on Godaddy and the registration went through without photo ID's etc.

Not speaking Spanish I used an English-Spanish Translator and then put the terms in a Google Search using the exact wording "before and after the words" and they also came out fine. Yours on that translator came out Shoes for Baby and interestingly enough had over 6 Million his as opposed to my million plus hits!

I just registered and was surprised it was available "BARCOSPARALAVENTA.ES" BARCOS PARA LA VENTA.ES which was Boats for Sale in Spanish. Do you come up with something else as well? Again I used the same process noted above.

If you are interested in selling any of the above for 25% of the Net Sale (Sales Price After Auction/Sales/Transfer Fees) please let me know privately as you obviously know what you're doing. Thanks for your help.

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Hi. "BARCOSPARALAVENTA.ES" is incorrect. The correct spelling is "BarcosEnVenta". If I were you, first I'll check if other extensions are taken. If none is regged, then think why.

There are a lot of domainers in spain, even forums similar to namepros. Don't make the mistake to think only in US are digging deep for domainnames.

Unfortunately I'm learning the hard way! Thanks

I do some contract work for a Brazilian company and sometimes use Google Translate but I wouldn't use it for registering domain names. If you don't know the language, you are setting yourself up to waste a LOT of money on registrations which just don't make sense to people in their native tongue. One tool you can use to see how common a phrase is would be to put the prhase in quotes with a + sign between the words. I recently sold NegocioPorInternet.com via Godaddy Premium Listings high $xxx and followed up that sale with a handreg of MercadotecniaPorInternet.com

Funny thing I Did and it Came out Right With Lots of Hits

I used this translator, http://www.freetranslation.com and then when I got the Spanish term I also verified that going from Spanish to English using a different translator just to make sure they matched. I then did exact Google searches using "words in order" looking at the number of Google Hits from the exact wording in order. They were generally between 900,000 to 1.5 million off the top of my head. Then looked to see if they were available on Godaddy for both .es and .Com. And still this F'd up! Only positive note is that I used the Godaddy Codes on this forum which probably saved me 60% or more of what I would have paid!