Any value in religious domains?

[Gerrit]

I was thinking for a while already if it'd be worth buying some religious domains (of various religions) to resell?

Why I am thinking of this:
- people are getting more religious and more devotely religious again in several areas of the world (excluding Europe where atheism and agnostics are growing larger and larger in numbers, however outside of Europe it seems religion is again getting more practised)
- religious issues are in the news very often, so a religious domain could be used both for an actual worship website or for a more informative website (journalistic) about religious issues



So do you think religious domains would be of good value?

Also two side questions:

- does the TLD matter? For example I know church.com or bible.info would be worth lot of money, but what about holychurch.de or quran.cc or so?

- only value in religious keywords (eg god, church, mosque, bible, ...) or would domains like biblequestions.com, christianforum.net, hanukkah.com, holyplaces.com, ... also be worth decent amounts?



PS (and suits the subject): happy Hanukkah to all jewish people here!

 

[Truthman]

I have a few premium religious domains, which I bought for development. I bought them for relatively low prices, since I believe there is not a high demand in that area, most people that buy religious domains are using them for non-commercial purposes... so they do not have a big budget to spend on a domain name.

 

[kemjika11]

i'm half nigerian, and i regged nigeriagospel.com a few months ago, and honestly, its already earned $2.50 @ parked, and hte click through rate is about 120%. I just regged it because i know nigerians LOVE church and practicing their religion(whatever it is). I think if you know of the religious niche in certain areas pretty well, you will be surpised at how easily they can get traffic. On the other hand, if its an average reg meaning your target audience isn't big or dedicated, religious domains might not be as fruitful