domain buypokerchips.biz

[stingrae]

thought it was a good fit for .biz
Good overture numbers.

Does .biz kill it?

 

[WuLabsWuTecH]

yes, yes it does,low $xx

 

[EbookLover]

Does .biz kill it?

yes. .BIZ kills it because the name itself implies (to me) that you are retailing poker chips. Retail = commerce = .COM

.BIZ, IMO, is best used for business related sites like B2B and industry info sites. So if your site was primarily for providing info on teh poker chip retail trends or whatever, then .BIZ would be a better fit. However, I do not like .BIZ at any rate. IMO a useless extension that MOST web surfers do not even know of. .COM is essential for marketing and recognition. I believe that most consumers who rmember your name would remember the .COM extention first, not the .BIZ. .BIZ could quite possibly be one factor which kills any ecommerce site. It's .COM all the way for ecommerce.

 

[stingrae]

Okay

Thanks for the opinions

 

[webgear]

reg fee to low $xx for me

 

[Legend.name]

A bit long so reg fee, IMHO. The phrase killed it...

 

[dgridley]

Hm, I think .com has been so diluted as to have lost it's Commerce connotations.. .biz on the other hand immediately makes me think of a retail site.

Poker chips are big business, but there's alot of competition.. this is a good keyword phrase tho and I'd appraise it somewhere around mid xx - high xx, as is. More if developed.

 

[lovelylovely]

midxxx developed

 

[EbookLover]

I know of nowone who is not in the domain business that knows about anything but .net .com .or .gov and maybe .info and .us.

Ultimately, it matters not whether .biz smells of retail or if .com has become diluted. We are domain traders to so we know about the different extensions and such so what we think as domain traders of an extension means nothing, really.

Ultimately, it is what are people (meaning your customers-assuming you'll be retailing the produucts yourself) going to remember and also trust. The answer is clearly .com. Not having a .com as the main site for your online commerce site is a bad marketing move.

That's not an opinion but rather facts gathered from experience with online ecommerce. No serious end user that wants to sell poker chips or any consumer product online without a .com. Any other extensions are ok as long as you have the .com and just redirect all the other ext to it.

Sure, the 3 letter domain says it all - very descriptive with good keywords. But the domain will most likely attract uninformed/inexperienced end-users therefore your selling price for the domain will most likely be muh lower.

 

[dgridley]

Personally I think you're wrong there.. anyone who surfs the net at all these days has most likely run across a .biz extension by now... and if .com = commerce, how do you account for the millions of non-commerce related domains registered as .com's?

It reallt doesn't matter tho because as I've pointed out in the past, the ext is only 10% of the total equation.. it's what's to the left of the dot that counts most IMO.

I know of nowone who is not in the domain business that knows about anything but .net .com .or .gov and maybe .info and .us.

Ultimately, it matters not whether .biz smells of retail or if .com has become diluted. We are domain traders to so we know about the different extensions and such so what we think as domain traders of an extension means nothing, really.

 

[EbookLover]

Personally I think you're wrong there.. anyone who surfs the net at all these days has most likely run across a .biz extension by now... and if .com = commerce, how do you account for the millions of non-commerce related domains registered as .com's?

It reallt doesn't matter tho because as I've pointed out in the past, the ext is only 10% of the total equation.. it's what's to the left of the dot that counts most IMO.

Sorry, you're dead wrong on this one. .BIZ is not known/remembered over .COM by most of the internet surfers out there and it is a bad marketing move to not own a .COM for a site that sells products. At the very least, .NET as that is much better known than .BIZ.

Again, you bring up the fact that .COM is diluted with non-commerce sites. That is an invalid arguement. All extensions are diluted by unmatched sites to some degree.

I am not saying that absolutely no one will buy from a .BIZ (although you're sales will be less), I am saying that is a terrible, terrible marketing move to not have the .COM as well for commerce and can be tested an proven. Try it. ALso I am not saying that no one knows .BIZ, jsut that most do not adn that they are lest trusting of it over .COM.

Many visitors will remember your name but many will not remember the correct ext. They sill likely think ".com". When they go to the .COM they will not find your site. Unless they remember that it was a .BIZ, then you lost that prospective customer.

This is not a domainer issue. It is a marketing/commerce issue. I suggest you the OP go and register and participate in commerce forums and he will see that most there will agree with me. Marketing is your #1 concern in commerce. No .COM = bad marketing move. It is quite simple logic to follow.

trust
memorability
ease

All these and more are far more important than a domain with good keywords when trying to sell products online. Sure, agreat dictionary name is awesome, but not the most important fact in the ecommerce world as it is in the domain trader world. In ecommerce, you aer much better off doing busienss from bobstrinkets.com than trinkets.biz.