discuss Your best domain?

[Domaineer1]

What's the best domain name you ever got?

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Today July 10, 2018 is the day the last of the Thai soccer team was rescued....Incredible! Thus, the best two domains in my portfolio are now:

IncredibleRescue .com

and

MiracleRescues.com

You might say what happened today was an incredible miracle

 

[uglydork]

Birdsnest.com

 

[Premiums]

Auction.FYI

 

[sivadomains]

I OWN E-CRYPTO.IN

 

[lambo.com]

DNAsequencing.com

This is a surprisingly hard choice. My personal favourite, most likely to sell, most valuable, are all different. I like some of my domain name phrase terms using ngTLDs, and also some of the generic single words I have. Anyway, I finally made a choice:

campfires.ca

I like it because:

• It is positive - I think almost everyone has good memories of sitting around a campfire
• Memorable - everyone can spell it and it is easy to remember as not too generic
• I like the extension - .ca is highly respected among Canadians (com is in wide use too, of course, but surveys show Canadians like and trust ca extensions, and research bears that out, one of the least abused extensions in the world)
• It is versatile and could be used in many ways. While an obvious to promote summer camps, camping, travel, etc. it also works well for branding say a social campaign with an analogy to the sharing with friends of a campfire, etc.

In this case I think the plural works better than the singular form - we talk of campfires not campfire.

Campfire is better

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Campfire is better

I totally accept that it is arguable, and also that most of the time the singular is preferable in a domain name. I think there are niches where both singular and plural work best for this word. I don't dispute that most would favour the singular - my choice was the plural or not at all, in this case. It seemed to me that when one talks of travel experiences you talk of campfires, not a single campfire.

Here is some of the diligence I did as I was considering whether to pick up the the word campfires,. I thought the analysis might be useful to those relatively new in the field as some of the things you can do.
(a) Not surprisingly campfire has more Google results (since campfires would encompass it) - 54 million vs 9 million. I did look at the sites that came up in each set of words as part of my consideration as well.
(b) Also not surprisingly, GoValue gives the nod to the singular, although rate them both order of magnitude similar ($2980 for singular, $1860 for plural - these are the numbers for the Canadian .ca extension).
(c) I asked a focus group of non-domain owners, admittedly a small sample, whether if they wanted a site to promote summer camp or travel camping did they think campfires or campfire would be better (I was making a decision whether to obtain campfires, since the singular was not available, but wanted to know what people thought). The majority preferred the plural, which reinforced my own thinking.
(d) I looked at NameBio for prior sales of the exact match (I also looked at broader match). The singular of the exact word has only sold once in any extension, in .co for $300. The plural of the word exactly has sold only once as well, in .com for $15,000.
(e) I looked at use of both in other extensions, and clearly the singular is more registered by a big factor (although both are taken in the most popular and obvious choices).
(f) I looked at the current use of the the .com version of both the singular and the plural of the word (not very significant use).
(g) I looked (through Estibot) at advertiser and search statistics on the broad and exact word "campfires" (the plural). A reasonable number of monthly searches on the plural, even a lot of type-ins, and advertiser CPC of the plural of $1.40.

I did not try to put the above into any quantitative overall rating - rather I considered it, and my own "sixth sense" of how attractive the plural would be.

I offer this not so much to push that the singular or plural is better, but as a possibly useful model of an approach when considering domain name(s) acquisition. Thank you for your opinion, @MarketingStrategies.com, which I don't dispute.

 

[alex067]

insider-crypto.com

 

[sellbourne]

multi-functional.com

 

[Haris]

wow.. a lot of "best" domains here are worse than my worst domain..

 

[creataweb]

wow.. a lot of "best" domains here are worse than my worst domain..

Because this thread is seemingly for people to spam all their names (good, bad or ugly )

I would post my best name but it's subjective and not based on dollar value according to other standards.

 

[DomainFQ.com]

Yield.Finance

 

[JudgeMind]

Litecoin.xyz

Airline.net

Boxoffice.net

Tech.io

 

[Josh R]

Litecoin.xyz

Airline.net

Boxoffice.net

Tech.io

Did you not sell all of those though?

 

[shig]

I think most with really nice domain names would rather not list them on a forum that gets indexed and the reason the quality isn't the greatest.

Would this be a solution?
Restart the thread and ask people to screenshot their best domain name and import as an image to avoid indexing.

Would that work?

 

[Adidotcom]

dlvr.us

 

[MadAboutDomains]

wow.. a lot of "best" domains here are worse than my worst domain..

Let us be the judge of that... what's your worst domain?

 

[-EM-]

Litecoin.xyz

Airline.net

Boxoffice.net

Tech.io

Why did you add that xyz domain in there among those domains...?

 

[Armageddon]

Now my best domains are
Inn.us , Ton.us , Low.us , Bay.us , Nom.us , Sax.us , NOS.us , Was.us , Pad.us , Lie.us
Yak.us , VAR.us , Nun.us , RIP.us , Orc.us , Mat.us ,Yet.us , Mum.us , Sad.us , Wok.us , Yen.us , Tao.us , CSS.us , Reseller.us , eCasino.us , LaundryRoom.net & few other​

 

[namezest]

Hard for anyone to have a best domain, most of us have dozens of pretty good names. I like alliancehelp/com 12z/org and Preserval/com miracleprayer waxtrade/com

 

[Scrooby]

fanwiki.org, mournful.org , misplace.org , avoidcreditcarddebt.com (I like them all don;t know if there valuble.)

 

[Haris]

Let us be the judge of that... what's your worst domain?

Bos/Pad dotcom .. purchased it by mistake though.

guess what.. it's developed in .be and .nl .. they probably won't buy it.

 

[-EM-]

Webdirectories.net
RegServ.com

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Bos/Pad dotcom .. purchased it by mistake though.

guess what.. it's developed in .be and .nl .. they probably won't buy it.

Thanks for sharing. And what's your best?

 

[Haris]

Thanks for sharing. And what's your best?

P/E/T/F/Y dawt com

 

[DomainFQ.com]

Cryptoo.ws