advice Don’t Buy a Domain Name With Only One Buyer in Mind

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When buying one word .com domain names, I like to ensure there is either a great deal of usage for the keyword in brands or that I can envision the domain name being used as a new brand by a major company. One thing I try to prevent is buying a great domain name where there is only one prospective buyer.

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[Dave]

Sound advice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[xynames]

Try telling it to these newbies who keep buying the dot com hoping to sell it to some foreign company that would’ve bought it by now themselves if they’d wanted it.

 

[Kate]

And beware TM issues...

 

[Nikhil Jain]

Thanks a lot for the great advice.

 

[Amzymayor]

Thanks for this. But you and I know that domaining has a bit of luck in it.

Well I read a piece from a domainer that bought a domain with an end-user in mind. He later sold it, after so much back and forth, to the end user for over 10k.

 

[xynames]

Yes and the publicity behind one person winning a jackpot at a slot machine induces a million others to keep dumping in their dollars.