strategy 27-year-old domain

[Tom12ga]

I'm simultaneously old-school (27 years of my domain stewardship) and still a bit of a noob.

I have a 4-character dot-com in $6.4B industry.

The annually trade show is approximately 7-9 months away.

Looking to disccus best practices for my domain.

Thanks,
Tom.

 

[draco]

Welcome.

$6.4B industry doesn't mean a lot. Food sales (restaurant and grocery) are over $2 trillion in the USA alone. That doesn't mean every food .com domain is going to sell for big bucks. Obviously a domain like food.com or restaurant.com would though.

By 4-character, do you mean 4 letters or a combination of letters and numbers? If it's all letters, is it a dictionary word?

Are there any trademarks for the 4-characters? If so, are they older than 27 years?

Do you have a for sale page on the domain? Have you listed it on any marketplaces?

 

[Tom12ga]

Welcome.
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$6.4B industry doesn't mean a lot. Food sales (restaurant and grocery) are over $2 trillion in the USA alone. That doesn't mean every food .com domain is going to sell for big bucks. Obviously a domain like food.com or restaurant.com would though.

By 4-character, do you mean 4 letters or a combination of letters and numbers?50mIf it's all letters, is it a dictionary word?

Are there any trademarks for the 4-characters? If so, are they older than 27 years?

Do you have a for sale page on the do5main? Have you listed it on any marketplaces?

I left m1y profile up to guide you to the word. It only potentially has one other meaning unless you happen to be a manufacturer of wire harnesss.

The other manufacturers have products that retail for $650 - $2400 but you have to be licensed by the federal government to sell retail.

 

[URL Stream]

I'm simultaneously old-school (27 years of my domain stewardship) and still a bit of a noob.

Looking to disccus best practices for my domain.

Thanks,
Tom.

 

[fka1080405]

Age doesn't matter.

Domain name investing is an activity with a bunch of considerations but if you just have one domain you want to make money from then you don't need to worry about the nuances of domain name investing. All you need to do is find a company in the industry that is willing to pay for the domain.

Personally, I struggle to imagine anyone paying much for it: while, yes, it's a keyword in your industry, it doesn't appear to be one that is particularly useful as a brand. I can find some discussion online that uses the keyword and it does appear in some product names but nothing particularly compelling.

For what it's worth, I own a few similar domains and I've never found a buyer for one.

edit: A good proxy for the value of a keyword is to look at how much people are paying for google ads against the keyword. Looking at keyword planner, I see ~10k searches per year and low keyword competition, in fact, I can't see any ads against the keyword.

edit edit: you can also roughly judge whether a domain has potential based on the volume of inquiries you have received. How many people have tried to buy the domain from you previously? How much have they offered? If nobody has ever contacted you about the domain before then that probably indicates it is unlikely to find a buyer.

 

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[DomainArmer]

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welcome @Tom12ga

 

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[King]

Welcome Tom.

 

[Domen]

Hi

Welcome Tom