Country + City .com

[KillPhil08]

Hey,

I was thinking, there's a lot of domains there which haven't been regged which are for example.

NamePros - Buy, Sell, Discuss Domain Names www.englandyork.com (examples I haven't checked).

I was thinking this would give a pretty high domain name ranking for anyone searching the cities.

Now obviously the more the place is a tourist spot or populated the more views it should get (not to mention natural disaster).

I was wondering what your take was on this, how much could a tourist site of this nature or even just a SEO'd parked page go for?

Any thoughts are much appreciated!

Phil

 

[m-i-k-e]

Your links don't go to anything.

As for the domain configurataion, it's backwards. I'd rather have city/country in another extension than country/city.

People never say, "I'm from England London" and they don't tend to search that way either. In my opinion it also takes credit away from the professionalism of the site with a backwards name like that.

My 2 cents anyways.

 

[KillPhil08]

They were examples, I'm not going to post what I'm actually looking at buying .

True, it'd be interesting to know how much search engines differentiate between the two.

Ultimately, I will be building a tourism website, hence a redirect URL might be useful, even to sell on once it is well established.

Thanks for your input!

 

[CamMK27]

Yes thats correct Most people never say or search for country city but rather the other way around.. You would never hear someone say I am from USA Orlando or France Paris etc but if you can build a site and bring traffic then go for it.

 

[Fastlancer]

ok,, do you have that list you said you would post?

 

[hawkeye]

errr...why do you think there's a lot of these types of names available at this stage of the regging game? Could it be that no one else has thought of regging them before?? (Doubtful.) Or, because there's no value or applicable usage of them? (Probable.) Of course you 'could' buy them and develop them into tourists sites etc., as any name can be developed and branded. It all depends on what one puts into development and marketing, and what the returns are to justify such. But one should probably take into consideration 'why' no one else has done so before with these types of names.

 

[Zutroy]

Yeah I think it’s got to be the city then the country, having them the other way around is the close but no cigar next best thing, which I think I am starting to learn from experience isn’t really the next best thing at all, if you are just using them for the search value then fair enough, but no one who was thinking of seriously developing a domain would want something like that really. As has already been stated the ones that are any good have most probably already been regged.

 

[wot]

Easy to check. Just do a Google search "city country" v "country city" that will give you the accepted norm.

Can be different in other parts of the world though particularly Asia where certainly in written native language often it is "country city". Simply do your homework.

I would be surprised if many/any of significance are available though.

 

[Skinny]

I'd rather reg parisfrance.com vs. franceparis.com.

It's counter intuitive to the way we think.

Thats my opinion though.

Skinny

 

[KillPhil08]

Cheers for the information. I didn't actually mean what way it went around, I didn't actually think about that at the time, it was a fleeting thought and briefly checked I just didn't want to lose the idea (I wish I owned a notepad).

Anyways,

Cheers for commenting guys, very useful community here.

Phil.