advice Does domain including galaxies or stars name sell

Without checking previous sales history.. doubt it. I mean something meaningful "MilkyWay.com" or "RedDwarf" or "SuperNova.com" etc etc which could be branded onto an entity is a different story.

I just purchased a domain name related to a new galaxy it was trending on twitter.
SPT041847 .com is it ok or should I cancel this domain?

Sanjay Sagar said:

SPT041847 .com is it ok or should I cancel this domain?

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I do not believe in the concept. but it's your money

Any value in the .satellite utld?

If it was a named one that makes a good brand like Andromeda, sure. If it is some random collection of numbers and letters, no.

Brad

Are godaddy and estibot estimate value reliable? I found a domain name with an estimated price of $4000 on Godaddy and $19000 on estibot.

Sanjay Sagar said:

Are godaddy and estibot estimate value reliable?

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No. Automated appraisals are pretty much meaningless.

Brad

Sanjay Sagar said:

I want to know does domains with stars or galaxies name sell.

For example: SPT024349 .com or 3c273 .com

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Hi

for one, the examples you gave, don't fit the question you asked.

because.... a domain with stars and galaxies, would be "pokerstars.com or mygalaxies.com"

now, if you had asked, "do the names of stars and galaxies", have any value as domain names?
then, your example would apply.

so, in future, if you phrase the question right, it might give you more insight to some answers.

Good Luck!

imo...

Sanjay Sagar said:

Are godaddy and estibot estimate value reliable? I found a domain name with an estimated price of $4000 on Godaddy and $19000 on estibot.

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most people here will find it meaningless, but for me if it's handreg domains, it's valuable

Masay said:

most people here will find it meaningless, but for me if it's handreg domains, it's valuable

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What is handreg domains?

biggie said:

Hi

for one, the examples you gave, don't fit the question you asked.

because.... a domain with stars and galaxies, would be "pokerstars.com or mygalaxies.com"

now, if you had asked, "do the names of stars and galaxies", have any value as domain names?
then, your example would apply.

so, in future, if you phrase the question right, it might give you more insight to some answers.

Good Luck!

imo...

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Thanks, biggie i will do from next time.

A domain name based on an astronomical number name from some catalog, in almost all cases, would have zero value. The number of such catalogs and designations is startling. For example the ESA recently completed a precision survey of 1.7 billion stars. Since the International Astronomical Union only approve proper names (like Vega or Betelgeuse) for a tiny part of these, most simply have a few letters and a number meaning the entry (originally literally a line in a multi-volume physical book) to designate the star. Astronomers use these designations in research publications, but beyond that they have almost no recognition unless something truly spectacular. The same system is used for galaxies.

Now the second example you give, 3C273, is indeed a somewhat well known object. 3C273 is the first quasar discovered, and, in terms of apparent brightness, the brightest, but still outside the realm of human eye detection by about 7 astronomical apparent magnitudes, which is roughly a factor of 600 times fainter. It is just that it is so distant - if it were as close as many of the stars we see in the night sky, it would appear way brighter than the Sun. Anyway, I digress. The 3C273 means that it is the 273rd object listed in the Third Cambridge Catalog of radio sources.

What about as a domain name, is 3C273 valuable? I checked on Dofo and it is registered in 4 TLDs (com, net, cn and tk). I could see some sort of astro group, astrophysicist, space shop, etc. finding it a cool name. There are over 200,000 Google results for it, since such a famous object. But that would not hold for 3Cnnn and the zillions of similar entries.

Astronomical names have been common in branding (eg think of car models like Saturn, Mercury, Meteor, Comet, Astra, Subaru, Nova etc.), but as @bmugford notes only the ones that have reached everyday language. So things like Andromeda, the various planets, the best known bright stars, the better known constellations etc. Also the general terms like universe, galaxy, star, etc. find lots of two-word branding use.

Just for fun I looked at a popular object like the Andromeda galaxy. The word Andromeda is registered in 187 TLDs according to Dofo, several of them for sale at high prices. This is arguably one of the more famous astronomical names also a first name, in mythology, film, books, tv show, etc. According to NameBio record only 4 domain sales include the term ever, the highest the .io sale for $$$ last year (no doubt sales not in NB record). GoDaddy appraisal does suggest about $24,000 as the worth of the .com of Andromeda.

Andromeda also goes by M31 (it is the 31st entry in a catalog of fuzzy non-stellar objects created by Charles Messier in his quest to discover a comet). According to Dofo, M31 is registered in 63 TLDs, although probably not all due to the astronomical significance. Fun fact: M31 is the most distant object you can see with the unaided eye, from a dark sky location. If out camping somewhere dark this summer bring along binoculars for a nice view.

Sorry if this TMI. I like this stuff!

Have a great day exploring the universe of domain names, people.

Bob

biggie said:

for one, the examples you gave, don't fit the question you asked.

because.... a domain with stars and galaxies, would be "pokerstars.com or mygalaxies.com"

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With respect, I think you are misinterpreting what he wrote - @Sanjay Sagar question does not say a name with the words stars or galaxies, but rather he asked about "domains with stars or galaxies name". His examples do meet that. For example 3C273 is indeed the name of a galaxy (a quasar in this case) and an entry like SAO211398 would be the name of a star (the 211,398 entry in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory star catalog). Those in astro field would regard those as the names of the objects. So to me his question is properly posed, but as mentioned, with only a very few exceptions, such names as domain names do not have value, I think in both of our opinions.

Bob

Sanjay Sagar said:

What is handreg domains?

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A handreg domain name is one that anyone can register at the going registration rate at a registrar. It may have been held by someone else in the past, or not, but if it was held previously it was allowed to expire so no one owns it now. As contrasted to purchasing an already registered domain name. For a hand registration the creation date will be the date you registered it.

Bob

Sanjay Sagar said:

I just purchased a domain name related to a new galaxy it was trending on twitter.
SPT041847 .com is it ok or should I cancel this domain?

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The SPT041847 galaxy is 12 billion light-years away.
Who do you envisage as an end-user for the domain?

CraigD said:

The SPT041847 galaxy is 12 billion light-years away.
Who do you envisage as an end-user for the domain?

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Brings long-term investing to a celestial level.. best unraveled with rocket science.

HotKey said:

Brings long-term investing to a celestial level.. best unraveled with rocket science.

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Travelling at light-speed, we're still looking at a 24-billion year turnaround time

Bob Hawkes said:

A domain name based on an astronomical number name from some catalog, in almost all cases, would have zero value. The number of such catalogs and designations is startling. For example the ESA recently completed a precision survey of 1.7 billion stars. ...Bob

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“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” by Carl Sagan

Sanjay Sagar said:

Are godaddy and estibot estimate value reliable? I found a domain name with an estimated price of $4000 on Godaddy and $19000 on estibot.

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through a coin
depending on which site it sits

I would say yes
or no

depends

namemarket said:

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” by Carl Sagan

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For a scientist, Sagan was prone to wax poetic about the mysteries.

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

- Douglas Adams

Years ago I purchased the domain names

gnz-11.top
gnz11.top

because GN-z11 is currently the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe.

Therefore it would be wrong to say that such domain names never sell.

DOMAIN ILLUMINATI said:

Years ago I purchased the domain names

gnz-11.top
gnz11.top

because GN-z11 is currently the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe.

Therefore it would be wrong to say that such domain names never sell.

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CORRECTION

The correct domain name is
gn-z11.top
and not the one quoted (which incorrectly has the hyphen on the wrong place), the hyphen comes before the "z" of course, not after it - because that's the correct name of the mentioned galaxy (GN-z11).

I would like to add that I absolutely don't think that "such" domain names ("weird" looking combinations of letters / digits and maybe hyphens) sell often or even regularly - I am sure it's much more the opposite and if, then most likely an exception due that there ist most probably some correlation to something special / more understandable for non - astrologists, like a very memorable combination of characters for example (in "best" case a name (andromeda) like others have mentioned already) or for being, like in this case, a "record - holder" - galaxy (oldest / most distant).

CraigD said:

Travelling at light-speed, we're still looking at a 24-billion year turnaround time

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Yes and that is only a fly by as if were to stop and start get back up to light speed can add a few more billion years.

Sanjay Sagar said:

Hi, I am new in domain business and I want to know does domains with stars or galaxies name sell.

For example: SPT024349 .com or 3c273 .com

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Examples given above don't have value imo. But if it's something like LocalStars.com or OfficeUniverse.com then they basically have value.