Do you think that keyword domain names days ARE NUMBERED?

[NameOmnia]

Hi All,

I would like to hear from you about Keyword Domain Names vs Brandables.

Personally I think brandables are the future and the direction to take as more and more businesses and companies will spend money on making their name memorable and known. The only possible use I see for keyword rich ones is to redirect some traffic...

What do you think about this topic? Are brandables the present and the future of domain name industry? Or do you think keyword names will always be the main character of the movie?

I would love to post a poll with the thread but I have no idea about how to do it...

 

[NameOmnia]

MY THREAD :

Do you think that keyword domain names days ARE NUMBERED?

Hi All,

I would like to hear from you about Keyword Domain Names vs Brandables.

Personally I think brandables are the future and the direction to take as more and more businesses and companies will spend money on making their name memorable and known. The only possible use I see for keyword rich ones is to redirect some traffic...

What do you think about this topic? Are brandables the present and the future of domain name industry? Or do you think keyword names will always be the main character of the movie?

I would love to post a poll with the thread but I have no idea about how to do it...



YOUR WORDS :

"If you have to guess 3 times after a hearing a name to get it right, the name probably sucks."

" They suck if you struggle trying to figure out how to spell them. I'm not ever going to change my view on that"

" people that bought them probably aren't the brightest people walking the planet "

" They probably should have thought of these issues before spending any money."

" Some are just bad names "

" You started off saying some crazy stuff "

" penalized nonsense "


Thanks for your precious, free-from-judgement, constructive and worthy input and approach. Now you can check yourself how on topic you are.

I didn't ask to judge brandables, I didn't ask to evaluate people's name and work I asked opinions about brandables and keyword names in general. I hope it's clear enough for you know. This kind of attitude is not welcome on my thread. As long as it won't change I will stop replying and while reporting off topic comments.

 

[JB Lions]

MY THREAD :

Exactly, not MY BLOG.

Your thread is in a forum. A forum allows for comments/replies. You asked for those. I gave them. They were all on topic. You just didn't like them, even tho they made a lot of sense.

You can go to User CP, click Edit Ignore List and put my name in there.

 

[NameOmnia]

MY THREAD :

Exactly, not MY BLOG.

Your thread is in a forum. A forum allows for comments/replies. You asked for those. I gave them. They were all on topic. You just didn't like them, even tho they made a lot of sense.

You can go to User CP, click Edit Ignore List and put my name in there.

yawn..

 

[alien51]

they think of Amazon as a generic, which is true and not true as far as how the domain Amazon.com is used on the Internet.

Amazon's previous brand name, was Cadabra. Which probably would have sucked because it sounds awkward. There must be some kind of artform in being able to choose a powerful "brandable" name.

Twitter's nemesis in the old days, was an identical messaging site called Plurk. It's a very clumsy name Plurk. "Have you read Barack Obama's plurk a while ago?" "I was busy plurking when i fell into a manhole along 5th avenue". Plurk is an ugly "brandable". One thing to make an ugly brand name a powerful name, is if you become the gorilla monopoly in your specific niche. When that happens, people will learn to accept your brand name hook, line, and sinker.

Other "generic" brands similar to Amazon, are "Sahara", Mojave", "Saturn", "Sun", and "Java". I don't know of a company called "Moon", although i'm not sure if that's a nice brandable name too.

Everyday there are people selling all kinds of names

That's true, but a more accurate gauge is to measure the number of names sold by each individual for a specific timeframe. Many people are able to sell 3 or 6 in a year. Then they can't replenish the names they sold with new regs.

When your business goes online, you MUST have a domain name. So naturally, domain names would have to be purchased on a regular basis somewhere.

But just looking at the number of domain names dropping every single day, and also add the number of domains snagged by second-hand speculators after domain expiry, you could realize the huge amount of TRIAL-AND-ERROR that domainers do just to earn money.

The statistics alone would not even make domaining a qualified viable business model. It's like trying to earn a living as a professional poker player.

 

[NameOmnia]

Amazon's previous brand name, was Cadabra. Which probably would have sucked because it sounds awkward. There must be some kind of artform in being able to choose a powerful "brandable" name.

Twitter's nemesis in the old days, was an identical messaging site called Plurk. It's a very clumsy name Plurk. "Have you read Barack Obama's plurk a while ago?" "I was busy plurking when i fell into a manhole along 5th avenue". Plurk is an ugly "brandable". One thing to make an ugly brand name a powerful name, is if you become the gorilla monopoly in your specific niche. When that happens, people will learn to accept your brand name hook, line, and sinker.

Other "generic" brands similar to Amazon, are "Sahara", Mojave", "Saturn", "Sun", and "Java". I don't know of a company called "Moon", although i'm not sure if that's a nice brandable name too.



That's true, but a more accurate gauge is to measure the number of names sold by each individual for a specific timeframe. Many people are able to sell 3 or 6 in a year. Then they can't replenish the names they sold with new regs.

When your business goes online, you MUST have a domain name. So naturally, domain names would have to be purchased on a regular basis somewhere.

But just looking at the number of domain names dropping every single day, and also add the number of domains snagged by second-hand speculators after domain expiry, you could realize the huge amount of TRIAL-AND-ERROR that domainers do just to earn money.

The statistics alone would not even make domaining a qualified viable business model. It's like trying to earn a living as a professional poker player.

True. There are many mistakes made every day and dropping domains are a big proof of that. Beside errors I think the problem is with renewals as they get more and more expensive; so unless you can afford to spend tens of thousands you have to let something drop...imo

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

in my opinion, making brandable names is art. anyone can make up thousands of brandables, but only artists can make great brandables.

may be many of old fashion domainers defense for keyword, attack brandables. they may do that because they have many keyword domains, some holding on them for years.

 

[AEProgram]

in my opinion, making brandable names is art. anyone can make up thousands of brandables, but only artists can make great brandables.

may be many of old fashion domainers defense for keyword, attack brandables. they may do that because they have many keyword domains, some holding on them for years.

same can be said about brandable domain holders lol

thats why one must just look at statistics and see what people are buying mostly and how often

 

[NameOmnia]

I too think that keyoword rich are the old school domaining. Let's compare how many brandables are sold to end users and how many keyword ones are sold to end users.
EMDs go from domainer to domainer to domainer...

 

[JB Lions]

I too think that keyoword rich are the old school domaining. Let's compare how many brandables are sold to end users and how many keyword ones are sold to end users.
EMDs go from domainer to domainer to domainer...

You can check a sales chart - http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm

Most are real words, easy to spell.

What gets passed from domainer to domainer to domainer would be all the 4 letter .coms with the worst letters, q, z, x, like the ones you're selling at Sedo.

 

[NameOmnia]

You can check a sales chart - http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm

Most are real words, easy to spell.

What gets passed from domainer to domainer to domainer would be all the 4 letter .coms with the worst letters, q, z, x, like the ones you're selling at Sedo.

yawn..

 

[bmugford]

yawn..

Are you bored?

I guess sometimes reality can be more boring than fantasy.

Brad

 

[NameOmnia]

Are you bored?

I guess sometimes reality can be more boring than fantasy.

Brad

I am bored with some useless and unnecessary comments.

Yes I think you are right; I like my reality though

 

[Theydon]

Nice thread, I like the passion

I'm in POMM's corner. I think brandable names will get more popular in the future, for me its all about cool, short brands, something flexible which can accommodate future changes of direction.

Don't get me wrong keyword will always have value and its place but as someone who is looking at a future dn strategy that reflects 'my' position then its 'good' brandables all the way.

Some people talk about keyword names having more sales appeal, maybe so but why are so many still sat in dn hands (high pricing maybe), it says to me the respective industries do not think they are worth the price. A good brandable on the other hand can be quite liquid as its price might be more palatable and it can appeal across a number of industries. Buying well is the key.

Theydon.